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Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly warned Trump that Iran would likely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz in response to a U.S. attack, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Trump, 79, told his administration that he thought Iran would capitulate to the U.S. before it closed the Strait, adding that even if the Strait was threatened, the U.S. military could handle it.
If only every single person who knew anything at all about Iran had tried to tell them this repeatedly for years and years.
Isn’t that kind of their signature moves? Trying something that sounds kinda sorta like common sense but it’s profoundly stupid or has already failed countless times before…
Every policy Trump has is the kind of shite that some drunken asshole at a bar trots out, usually preferenced with “Why don’t we just…”
…and then later saying, with zero hint of self-awareness, that “nobody knew that [issue] could be so complicated”
Who would’a thunk ?