Trump change in a week of war:

[applegrove]

— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2026-03-14T22:17:28.215Z

[IronLionZion]

1. Like COVID, this will all be over by April

April Fools!

[Aussie105]

2. The wonderful things you can do and say when you have no plan and bad memory!

Classic Donny Droopypants though.

[paleotn]

3. The British are not coming.

Fix it yourself, Shitler.

[Mblaze]

4. Always the asshole

[LilElf70]

5. Gee.

I'm not surprised by this at all. There's no one behind the wheel. Ya know, this isn't a friggin Tesla. I expect crash and burn as a legitimate result. It only makes sense.

[Bluetus]

6. The crazy thing is that there is a 50-mile corridor where Iran has clear missle shots at any ships

It doesn't matter how many British, French or Chinese ships you put into that channel, Iran has a free shot at all of them.

Trump is talking about putting Marines on the Khark oil terminal. They could destroy the terminal. But having 1000 marines on that little island does nothing for opening ship traffic. Khark is 300 miles from the choke point of Hormuz. The only way you can guarantee safe ship passage is to put troops on the ground all along Iran's Persian Gulf / Gulf of Oman coastline, and that will probably take 25,000 troops.

I don't know how many gun placements Iran has there, but I bet it is a lot.

[IronLionZion]

7. Iran can hit the strait from anywhere in their country

Geography makes it easy to attack but difficult to defend.

[Bluetus]

8. And it isn't as if supertankers can take evasive action

They are as slow as ... supertankers. Sitting ducks.

[dalton99a]

10. And if they can hit a tanker, they can hit the escort as well.

[Bluetus]

12. I don't know what kind of defenses the US has against short-range rockets

The Patriot and other systems are for intercepting missiles that are high altitude, high speed, long-range. I bet Iran has lots of placements in the Hormuz area where they can shoot short-range rockets where a Patriot would be completely ineffective. One would think that, given the history of Hormuz, Iran probably has well-protected, underground firing positions.

[dalton99a]

13. Iran also keeps an arsenal of drones, drone boats, and sea mines in a network of tunnels in those mountains

The tunnels seem well protected

Ship owners and insurers are not too crazy about Hormuz

[LudwigPastorius]

9. By next week, Depends Donny will be referring to this clusterfuck as "Biden's war".

Count on it.

[struggle4progress]

11. When do they start stirring the big vats of koolaid?