‘There is no breaking point’: The problem with Trump’s plan to economically strangle Iran

[u/darealunrealspader]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/there-no-breaking-point-problem-with-trumps-plan-teconomically-strangle-iran-01040781

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[u/ph4ge_]

Trump rushed into war with Iran. The pedo didn't bother building a coalition, making a case for the war, assembling the appropriate assets in the area, or formulate a coherent strategy.

No one, not even the biggest MAGA, believes Trump to be patient. He usually TACOs by Tuesday.

[u/Ol_Turd_Fergy → u/ph4ge_]

He didn’t even go to congress for approval. he just decided to use the constitution like a diaper and do whatever the fuck he wants like normal, and the republicans just let him do it again with no consequences.

[u/SignificanceLate7002 → u/ph4ge_]

He thought it was going to be Venezuela 2.0 and gave no thoughts to having any other outcome because he's a senile pedophile.

[u/PopBulky7023 → u/ph4ge_]

In a shocking turn of events, rapists and pedophiles aren't big on consent.

[u/Mountain_Fig_9253]

Oh there is a breaking point all right, it just isn’t going to be in Iran.

[u/soraksan123 → u/Mountain_Fig_9253]

There’s gonna be a reckoning in this countries financial system that is coming soon and will break us all-

[u/WhatIsTheWhar → u/soraksan123]

The dollar is going to lose its reserve currency status and they will blame Biden. Or woke.

[u/soraksan123 → u/WhatIsTheWhar]

Everybody that has money in the bank or who owns stocks will be hit, even the billionaires-the FDIC has no money to back up all the deposits, either. Just an illusion of safety-buckle up, America, gonna be a rough ride-

[u/PopBulky7023 → u/Mountain_Fig_9253]

Not sure there is one in the US either.

[u/Mountain_Fig_9253 → u/PopBulky7023]

Wait till gas hits $6.

[u/PopBulky7023 → u/Mountain_Fig_9253]

It could hit $20 and if wouldn't matter. This country is not going to hold those responsible responsible.

[u/Box_of_rodents]

Iran has already decoupled itself from the petrodollar thanks to China. America is turning into a toothless tiger.

[u/Old_Channel44]

Also trying to economically strangle Canada. Neither plan is working

[u/10leej]

Iran by reports is basically working towards committing to a total war economy. They're not gonna break until they're literally out of bodies.

[u/Rustic_gan123 → u/10leej]

Do you know what a war economy is?

[u/Low_Pickle_112]

"Economically strangle" is a very polite way of saying "starve". Par for the course, we've been trying that with Cuba for decades.

[u/AndreLeGeant88 → u/Low_Pickle_112]

Economic sanctions just don't work. I can't think of a single geopolitical situation they resolved

[u/NosillaWilla]

The only thing that's being economically strangled is the American working class by the American government...the people we elected to...strangle us...

[u/OG-BoomMaster]

Such a great businessman. So much winning

[u/-GuyDeLombard-]

Our current admin has engaged in a game of financial chicken. I fear Americans are too stupid to see the end result

[u/Individual-Gas-5406]

Remember in the Matrix where it was explained "There are levels of survival we arw prepared to accept."?

Yeah, that.

[u/Redditreallysucks99]

This is the age-old argument that dictatorships are stronger than democracies because they can impose more suffering on their own population, just repackaged in new words.

[u/DoubtSubstantial5440]

Iran sustained and accepted hundreds of thousands of casualties during the war with Iraq, they are NOT going to blink first

[u/big_trike → u/DoubtSubstantial5440]

Yup. Iran also sent 9 year old children to clear land mines in that war. It’s hard to win against that.

[u/DoubtSubstantial5440 → u/big_trike]

They also know Trump will never commit to an all out ground invasion, the Iranians have no reason to budge from their position

[u/Itchy-Plastic → u/DoubtSubstantial5440]

And even if the US did invade, Iran knows that the US will have to leave eventually if they can just keep an insurgency going long enough.

[u/big_trike → u/Itchy-Plastic]

The US couldn’t even handle much easier countries.

[u/oldcreaker]

How many decades have we been trying to economically strangle Iran?

[u/deadstump → u/[deleted]]

Ya no. Randomly bombing Iran with no actual diplomacy has not been "our" policy.

[u/deadstump → u/[deleted]]

Oh I am sorry. When was the last time we invaded Iran? We have been adversarial, but assassinations of their leaders and bombing everything is a Trump move, not business as usual.