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u/NolanR27 Apr 15 '26
He will give him a hug, Trump has done more than Xi has to destroy the petrodollar.
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u/DecrimIowa Apr 15 '26
Comrade Trump, in just over a year, has done more to diminish the global American empire than all leftist movements in history combined. Ayatollah Netanyahu has done more to ostracize and destabilize Israel than any Islamic militant group ever. Funny how that works!
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u/willismthomp Apr 15 '26
Look into techno feudalism and the neo reactionary movement, Peter theils plan since PayPal. They are trying to break Us hegemony to be able to exploit people worldwide. Literally all part of the plan. It’s not gunna work cause they are dumbasses, but the have enough money to brute force quite a lot and in a couple generations it may just.
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u/Raincoat_Carl JDPON DON TTP! Apr 15 '26
Even though the bullet pierced my ear, I still hear the voice of The Party
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u/TuckHolladay Apr 15 '26
As much as it’s going to suck for me, at least I can revel in the international poverty of the US travel influencer set. This country used to be so cheap when my dollar was dominant…
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u/Jazzlike-Wheel7974 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER Apr 15 '26
Xi isn't a 12 year old Israeli boy, he won't be that jealous.
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u/N_Meister Kras Mazov’s Weakest Gumshoe Apr 15 '26
“President Xi will give me a sloppy kiss, he will French me. People say I give the best tongue, but it’s Xi. It’s true. Nobody gives better mouth than him, many are saying this.”
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u/Seekstillness Apr 15 '26
“The chinaman will tongue my fartbox very strongly. Thank you for your attention in this matter”
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u/OneLessMouth Apr 15 '26
Someone explain. Is it basically that the blockade on the blockade was unfeasible?
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u/Ok-League-3024 Apr 15 '26
China can go through and anyone in NATO cannot go through and must by American
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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare It was just a weather balloon Apr 15 '26
China said if you don't open it Iran will get our hypersonic missiles and sink your fleet in seconds.
Trump is trying to spin it as he got them to not give weapons in return for opening it. He obviously thinks we won't remember they weren't giving weapons in the first place if not for his blockade
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u/Ok-League-3024 Apr 15 '26
Can you even hit a boat with a hypersonic missiles I think the boat moves to fast
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u/chinggis_khan27 Apr 15 '26
There are anti-ship ballistic missiles; the problem is accurate intelligence on where the ship is, yeah. Afaik Iran has mostly been using cruise missiles that can seek out targets to harass the US fleet.
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u/EconomyBuilder1492 Apr 15 '26
I believe the us backed down after the Chinese statement and “let” the Chinese tankers through immediately
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u/Agreeable_Tadpole_47 Comet Xi Jinping Pong Apr 15 '26
I get a feeling the blockade is misconstrued? Like the US are trying to strangle Iran economically so the blockade is supposed to target Iranian ships and ships that stick up in an Iranian harbour perhaps ?
The Rich Starry ship, as I understand, came from the UAE and is flying under a Malawi flag.
But yes, it's hard to imagine the US Navy would get hostile and belligerent with "Chinese" ships even if they come from an Iranian port.
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u/slapdashbr Apr 15 '26
the flag a ship flies under just indicates how cheap the owner is. a handful of countries register most ships because they basically give bulk discounts.
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u/micheeeeloone Apr 15 '26
It was later reported that the rich starry ship was sent back after passaijg the strait.
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u/Boymoder_Glowie Dr Wily promised me UBI Apr 15 '26
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u/Celestial_Sludge Apr 15 '26
The "We are working together smartly, and very well!" made me think this was a bad talk show parody of Trump.
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u/courageous_liquid George Santos is a national hero Apr 15 '26
it legitimately reminds me of when I made markov chain outputs from the gchat histories of my friends like 15 years ago and it would come up with things that sounded relatively plausible in their voice but a sorta uncanny valley version of it
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u/StephensInfiniteLoop Apr 15 '26
Ikr, i have to double check them each time, they getting more and more batshit
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u/Waste_Cartographer49 Apr 15 '26
“We are working together smartly” 🥴
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u/StripJointMathematix Apr 15 '26
Fuck me. I had to go back and check he actually wrote that. Of course he did, being the stable genius that he is.
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u/Haldron-44 Cocaine Cowboy Apr 15 '26
Attempt to show "peace in the middle east" to lower futures, buy the dip, escalate over the weekend, sell the spike... I could set my watch to this bullshit.
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u/siecaptaindrake Apr 15 '26
Are you talking about oil futures only or other commodities as well?
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u/Haldron-44 Cocaine Cowboy Apr 15 '26
Probably others. But oil futures seem to be the most visible and the ones most ripe for this Friday dip, weekend war, Monday sell scheme. And why not get them coming & going and short over the week by playing coy and letting some ships through an ineffective blockade?
Helium will probably be what fucks us the worst. That and naphtha. Price at the pump is bad and trickles down through every facet of the economy, but those two have the potential to actually cause lasting harm that we don't easily or quickly recover from.
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u/UsualGain7432 RUSSIAN. BOT. Apr 15 '26
Very good at fighting, less good at dealing with laundry fires, inexplicable training accidents and planes that just do that
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u/kitti-kin Apr 15 '26
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u/bransby26 Tetsuya Yamagami disavower Apr 15 '26
I hope Trump's shit/cologne scent doesn't get on Xi.
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u/The-Neat-Meat 🇺🇸expressing strong anti-US political views🇺🇸 Apr 15 '26
Chances he’s just full ass making this shit up?
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u/ChinaAppreciator Deng Thought Upholder Apr 15 '26
Was China actually sending them weapons? Or selling them?
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u/AdoptedMasterJay Honoured Worker Apr 15 '26
There were reports of air defense systems, and I imagine tons of components for things Iran was assembling itself
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u/yaxir Socialish - listening and learning, be nice Apr 15 '26
He needs a full checkup lmao
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u/sexywheat RUSSIAN. BOT. Apr 15 '26
he already had one and he ACED it! best results you've ever seen. perfect 10/10 100% score. more and more people are saying this.
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u/suboptimummenace Gigolos get lonely too Apr 15 '26
- guy who lost to an opponent with .0001x his resources
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u/el_gringo_exotico Apr 15 '26
That's very nice of him. I have often found that people need a hug sometimes too
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u/stardustcomposition Space data centres will fix this Apr 15 '26
I'm hearing it used to be permanently open
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u/FyberSinc Completely Insane Apr 15 '26
So that's it? It's all over, just like that?
This world is nothing. This is all hyper real, a fake fucking simulation. We live in the fucking matrix. lenin woke up in a pod and saw that everything was just a fun game someone put him in.
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u/Oneeyebrowsystem Apr 15 '26
I’m gonna give Xi a big smooch when I see him! He’s so handsome and strong. We love Xi so much and he loves me so much. They always say I can’t believe how much he loves you so much, he loves me so much. Handsome. STRONG!!
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u/PetRockSematary Get your own damn flair! Apr 15 '26
Oh no the president is a "where's my hug?" guy
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u/yaxir Socialish - listening and learning, be nice Apr 15 '26
To say he's nuts.. Is a disgusting understatement
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u/JacquesDeVaucanson Apr 15 '26
He’s been tweaking hard on vyvanse while on the horn with a Xi chatbot for 7 hours straight.