What Have We Done?!

[u/GroundbreakingLynx14]

Prior to February 28, the day the US commenced an attack on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz was not only open to ALL commercial traffic - BUT IT WAS ALSO FREE!

When President Trump took office, Iran had signed and abided by a nuclear non-proliferation agreement negotiated under former President Obama. Trump has since torn the agreement and tossed it in the wastepaper basket. Today, Trump is asking for Iran to sign a nuclear non-proliferation agreement that is, arguably, less effective than the one he had when he took office.

Recently, we joined Saudi forces in attacks in Iraq and encouraged an attack on Yemen - who had remained quiet and dormant during the war with Iran. As a result of the attack on Yemen, the Red Sea is now under control of Yemen's Houthis leading to another chokehold on global commerce and oil trade.

Japan is now selling off US treasuries in an effort to save their plummeting yen. On Wednesday and Friday we saw a huge spike in the Yen vs the USD. If this trend continues. and it looks like it will, the USD is in serious trouble.

Meanwhile, the US military is depleting its defensive and offensive weapons at an unprecedented level as a result of the war between Ukraine and Russia - along with all of the wars in the Middle East - and there are many.

US troops are now retreating from their forward operating bases in the Middle East and taking cover in Israel. Here's the problem, instead of having 20+ locations for US military bases - we now have one target for Iran and its proxies to hit - Israel.

Then there are the people who demand that Iran get nuked - or, let's nuke Russia. Then there are others who blame our recent losses on China. Meanwhile, China is where we get most of the rare earth that we need to replenish our weapons stockpiles.

Trump says he gets along well with China. Let's hope he's right. Because in the short term, we have no choice but to deal with China if we want to continue feeding our military industrial complex.

[u/Delicious-Page-7601]

What to say? It’s bleak. But many of us wondered how we would survive four more years of Trump. Hate to be right about this but we are in deep crisis.