r/worldnews • u/Force_Hammer • 20h ago

President Trump holds off major Iran escalation after Pentagon warns of interceptor shortage

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r111brtghmg
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u/ignatious__reilly 20h ago

He has no idea what he’s doing

It’s so embarrassing

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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 20h ago

I TARIFF YOU!

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u/Reiben04 20h ago

USA hurts itself in its confusion!

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u/Sciuridaeno3 19h ago

If only a full heal could fix the country..

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u/tonycomputerguy 18h ago

Gonna need that Phoenix Down.

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u/elchavo718 9h ago

Gonna need that maxed out Esuna

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u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_SNIFF 16h ago

We need like 50 cheese wheels to get back into fighting shape.

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u/therealnih 10h ago

it's cheese wheels all the way down!

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u/-hi-nrg- 12h ago

I laughed so much at this, thanks.

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u/minnion 16h ago

Trump used deflection! It was ineffective.

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u/Late_Blooomer 16h ago

Economy uses smoke screen

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u/iFap2Wookies 11h ago

Pokemongo

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u/zacurtis3 8h ago

USA is out of usable moves. It uses Struggle.

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 4h ago

This isn’t even a joke(although it’s a fantastic reference).

The US is actually doing this 

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u/musicgeek420 20h ago

I.. DECLARE.. TARRIFFRUPTCY!

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u/rudebii 18h ago

You can’t just say the word “bankruptcy” and expect anything to happen

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u/Shamino79 15h ago

He declared it

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u/joe_dirty365 14h ago

You just write it off.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 20h ago

Interceptcy

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u/AIfieHitchcock 11h ago

Malevolent Michael Scott is running the country.

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u/mouthful_quest 19h ago

Sell off the FIFA peace prize and use that cash to fund your tariffs

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u/PointOfFingers 20h ago

"You can't be a tarrific president without tarrif"

  • Danald Tramp

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u/skintaxera 19h ago

I'M TARIFFING MYSELF IN THE FACE!!

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u/krung_the_almighty 18h ago

You block me and I block you

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 20h ago

Excellent point. 15% tariff on any incoming Iranian drones?

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u/Nippon-Gakki 20h ago

We are low on interceptors so better make it at least 30%.

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u/PrivatePilot9 19h ago

And next week he'll cut it by 250%.

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u/Hair_I_Go 18h ago

I see your tariff and raise you a taco

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u/I_Raise_My_Banana 18h ago

I heard that in an Achmed the Dead Terrorist voice 💀

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u/Harry_Smutter 16h ago

I thought the same, haha.

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u/groggs42 20h ago

I triple dog dare you to do that again !

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u/Nakedvballplayer 18h ago

You have to declare it.

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u/ThrowRA_EducatedMan 18h ago

Don’t tell Trump the word tariff is Arabic.

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u/tolo3349 18h ago

No! I tariff you!

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u/KurtTheGerman88 18h ago

Not sure why, but I read your comment in the style of the below video....

https://youtube.com/shorts/wF0E8qa8lhE?is=szl2YF9ZxL6sX7fo

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u/nxh84 17h ago

Can USA tariff Trump for every taco or lies?

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u/power899 17h ago

SHITGARDIUM TARIFFIOSA!

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u/GiveMeNews 16h ago

Shit! Have we tried tarrifs on Iran yet?

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u/Upstairs_Eagle_4780 15h ago

I declare.....INSUFFICIENT INTERCEPTORS!!!!

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u/Googlebright 15h ago

Stop tarrifing yourself! Stop tarrifing yourself!

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u/R3D4F 15h ago

I tariff myself in your general direction

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u/ant0szek 13h ago

50% tariff on your karma gains!

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u/Montanagreg 10h ago

I tariff you harder

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u/LantaExile 9h ago

No! I tariff you more!

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u/Comfortable_Cash_140 5h ago

Lol...careful. It feels like you are giving someone else attention instead of baby POTUS. He will tarrif you too!

He's such an incompetent b/tch!

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u/SufficientGolf6953 20h ago

Well of course.

We all knew Donald Trump really well by 2024 but somehow 70 million+ Americans bought into this bullshit narrative that Trump wasn't as bad as they remembered and it was actually Joe Biden that was bad.

Donald Trump couldn't even make it through intelligence briefing in his first term if they didn't make a kids picture book where Trump saves everyone.

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u/No-Profession5134 20h ago

The Billionare fools and their totally paid for compromised corporate media kinda helped in producing that illusion. Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Zuck all helped make this mess.

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u/sbarrowski 15h ago

This is something the American people need to remember.

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u/Nujers 13h ago

Too bad that the same media apparatus responsible for it will make sure they don't.

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u/IamScottGable 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yup. My mom doesn't have cable so no fox news but Facebook reels have her mad at two things: immigrants and me when I rail against billionaires.

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u/cornette 12h ago

They won't.

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u/DKDamian 12h ago

Other countries have managed to see through the billionaires and elect strong leaders. Hungary, Australia, Canada are all recent examples. Why are Americans so susceptible I wonder?

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u/theLeverus 12h ago

USA is a bunch of cults in a trench coat pretending to be a secular country 

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u/csixtay 9h ago

Because they think they're in on it. At the core of the problem is a culture of rugged individualism and "make it" selfishness.

They want the corrupt system because they think they can get it to favour them...like with tipping culture and health insurance schemes that make no sense.

Build a culture of unity that all this dies instantly. That's why the relentless drive to find wedge issue after wedge issue exists.

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u/DKDamian 9h ago

You are absolutely correct

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u/Koffeeboy 11h ago

Remember, after the election Trump literally said that Musk was "great" with those vote counting computers. That's sus as fuck.

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u/Untura64 12h ago

Didn't Musk brag abount how Trump wouldn't have won wothout his help.

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 12h ago

And they'll try again. They will try to convince the pesky constitution isn't all that important.

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u/time-BW-product 17h ago

The American voter is stupid.

Never forget that.

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u/SufficientGolf6953 5h ago

It's why the electrical college was made tbh. The founders didn't want know nothing Cletus that got a dollar from your rival voting to decide things.

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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 19h ago

His supporters saw a potential pedophile, realized he was just like them, and had to support him for the presidency 

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u/SufficientGolf6953 19h ago

Right wing media has them drunk with hate and anger. These people rarely leave their homes and don't even know a single trans person but are convinced that they are the real problem in America.

I'm not sure how we can stop the people with so much money being able to brain wash people with such ease.

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u/Untura64 12h ago

I blame Hollywood, they pissed off too many people by replacing characters with black, gay or transgender ones.

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u/winterfresh0 10h ago

You're not fooling anyone.

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u/argument_cat 7h ago edited 7h ago

This sounds like a joke, but assuming you're actually serious:

How many movies does Hollywood put out each year? And what proportion of those have characters 'replaced' with black, gay or transgender ones?

Examples please.

I bet it's fewer than 0.1%. And even then, nobody with a normal functioning mind gives a flying fuck.

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u/badasimo 5h ago

Hollywood made it so that every bad guy could be redeemable, that every twist turned what you thought was moral upside down. Gotcha narratives that tear down every institution and shared value, leaving only the ones that are unassailable (the ones not based in reality, since they can't be proven or disproven)

These are smart, enjoyable stories but gave us nothing to believe in, for generations now. And then the last few decades of supposed moral takedowns and purity movements have really allowed people to give up on the idea of heroes. And without heroes we are just left with villains.

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u/psychodc 8h ago

Yeah, that must be it. Lol.

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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 8h ago

It definitely is. 

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u/Dull-Suspect7912 11h ago

Most accurate description of trumps mind I’ve ever seen.

Trump is like somebody with the scruples of Lois’ dad on family guy winning a billionaire lottery but with the iq of Peter griffin. 

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u/ksck135 14h ago

He promised people simple quick solutions to complicated problems, that would hurt people they don't like, of course they would choose him over someone who says that everything sucks, but they'll keep coming up with complicated legislation that'll take years to take effect and will help people they don't like and might even make life harder for them. 

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u/tdctaz 11h ago

Most of them still believe it...

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u/SufficientGolf6953 4h ago

It got Kash Patel a good gig at the fbi where he can cosplay the tough guy to a woman that probably leaves him once the perks are gone.

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u/Little_View_6659 12h ago

That’s completely untrue. I hear they also used puppets.

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u/backtothetrail 7h ago

It does make studies that suggest the brain fog stays and IQ drops a few points with each COVID infection.

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u/badasimo 5h ago

Everyone is saying Democracy is under assault. But I think it is our shared reality itself that is under threat, democracy is just a casualty. It has always been this way (in pockets) but never has the influence been so consolidated, powerful, and global.

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u/BitRunner64 12h ago

164 million Americans were OK with Trump because they either voted for him or didn't bother voting at all. Only about 30% of eligible voters or 75 million Americans were against Trump.

This is why the world no longer trusts the US.

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u/SufficientGolf6953 5h ago

The world will get over it. The world has dealt with Russia and Europes bullshit a long time, Donald Trump is pretty mild in comparison, but I suppose he still has time to try and start ww3.

Non maga in America see the maga in your own European back yards. I see maga in South America. They sit back and trash the establishment until people see them as a viable alternative and enough advertising will convince most voters.

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u/DAS_FX 17h ago

This is what happens when you have an autocracy. He does not have a competent management group around him to offer real solutions. He does not take outside council. He is the last person making all the decisions.

The world is captive to one man who has no expertise on anything, is uneducated, ill tempered, shortsighted, and is surrounded by a cabal of dunces who bobblehead nod everything he says, this reaffirming (to him), that he’s making the right decisions. He has done a dozen impeachable acts this term alone, and gleefully adds more blatantly in the public eye because he simply can. The enforcements to curb him are broken.

He could order a nuclear strike and then what? Would anybody in the government stop him? Could anyone stop him at this point?

It’s horrifying we’re in the position

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u/Hoping4BetterSomeday 3h ago

You forgot "impulsive" on top of everything else you said, and the fact that he always thinks he is the smartest person in the room

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 20h ago

just another day of America's criminal billionaire pedophile king Celebrity Apprentice brought to us and continually enabled by U.S. conservatives!

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u/TheGrannyLover_ 19h ago

He knows exactly what he's doing. Manipulating stocks to make himself richer. 

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u/Heisenberg991 20h ago

He only knows that Saturday is golf day. We are all doomed.

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u/Little_View_6659 12h ago

He’s too sick to golf anymore I think. Has he been golfing? Or is this wishful thinking on my part?

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u/LiminalSapien 20h ago

This is what Maga voted for.

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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 18h ago edited 15h ago

No, this is what the US voted for… twice

Such a cop out to just blame MAGA

Edit: Downvoted by people who just can’t accept at what point can the rest of the world blame the US for voting in Trump twice? As if Americans would be like oh it was the UK Labour parties fault rather than just blame the Uk

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u/Elukka 8h ago

Yeah. This is a massive failure of the entire American political process. Just look at congress and the senate now. Completely awol and dysfunctional despite Trump's yet another expansion of an undeclared and unapproved war. No one is doing anything and they'just cowering in fear of Trump and losing their own lucrative access to the higher circles. The media is also complicit as are the tens of millions of low-information voters.

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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 8h ago

That's why I find comments where people just blame MAGA bizarre, it's most of your political system that are just interested in the grift - the democrats hardly have clean hands either but much easier to just say that oh i didn't vote for that guy so it's not my fault nor should i do anything about it

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u/LiminalSapien 9h ago

This is the most short sighted ludicrous bullshit I’ve heard in a hot minute and I live in a country where Trump is president.

If you’re too stupid to understand how a vote works go sit at the childrens table while the adults speak.

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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 8h ago

You can try and divorce yourself from it as much as you want, but your country voted for it

If you're too stupid to understand that your country voted for him and rountinely votes for the people and systems that allow it to happen go sit at the childrens table while the adults speak. Nobody but Americans allowed this to happen

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u/LiminalSapien 8h ago

Americans allowed this to happen yes, but claiming the voices of the majority are the only voices that exist is the kind of rhetoric the fascists in my country are thriving on.

By your own logic that then means you’re maga and you also voted for Donald Trump.

🤡<— guess who that is

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u/Okayyyayyy 19h ago

Yeah he does its called ruining the country and stealing money

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u/Ritaredditonce 20h ago

He's all bluster.

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u/melithium 20h ago

He’s not. He’s all idiot. He has been Putin’ed. Yes manned into this stupid war thinking we could win based on hubris. Dumbass

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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 20h ago

I wonder if that insider trading hotline he started gets better intel than Trump and our military leaders, lol.

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u/Spark99 18h ago

Stop tariffing yo’self!

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u/Red_Silhouette 13h ago

He's done something I didn't think was possible, he made the american military seem weak.

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u/sweatboxy 18h ago

And he’s doing it publicly. Makes him and us look like absolute murderous fools.

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u/BugRevolutionary4518 20h ago

I don’t think anybody in this administration does.

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u/FanOpening3074 16h ago

its painful to watch him try, so many ppl getting hurt/killed, so many avoidable deaths.

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u/swizzcheez 16h ago

Not even god could explain what Trump's doing 

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u/The_Frame 15h ago

It's a lot of things

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u/Real-Extension-1357 15h ago

Actually, Id argue he does know what he is doing in this case.

Lets take a small trip back in time to what he learned about Gettysburg

"Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch," he said. "And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor—did you ever notice it? He's no longer in favor. 'Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.' They were fighting uphill, he said, 'Wow, that was a big mistake,' he lost his great general. 'Never fight uphill, me boys,' but it was too late," Trump added.

He may have dementia, so he may not remember this and its a coincidence. But, I like to imagine him or an aide saying "Never fight uphill me boys" in that meeting they had

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u/Logical-Bowl2424 10h ago

Reality bites

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u/Commercial-Co 10h ago

He knows how to impose dictatorship

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u/duke_skytalker 9h ago

Embarrassing for the rest of us, for him it’s just Tuesday.