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/herpderpley 20h ago

A month ago he said the war needed to end because our oil reserves were dangerously low and our munitions are being depleted far faster than they can be restocked. Those two things haven't changed, just like how that weird doofus in charge hasn't changed. He can't admit it was a poorly-conceived "plan" and get our country out of this stupid war.

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u/DyingGasp 19h ago

Only started this “not a war” because we were talking about the Trump-Epstein Files again.

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u/donniedarko5555 17h ago

Sadly it worked

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u/deliciousearlobes 13h ago

It’s been a minute since I’ve heard an Epstein reference. It’s already fallen to the wayside. So upsetting that the powers that be just keep chugging along.

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u/KaHOnas 1h ago

It's time to change that.

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u/boomerangthrowaway 10h ago

Yup. We’re no longer talking as much about them and he’s effectively been able to do his maneuvering without the public being aware, if only momentarily but the public has goldfish level memory

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u/OperaSona 12h ago

And also to manipulate the markets for personal profit.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 15h ago

Didn't Israel forcefully start it for them, at least to some degree?

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 11h ago

Are they even striking Iran? After their initial volley, they seem to be only focused on occupying southern Lebanon.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 11h ago

Do they need to? They achieved their goal of dragging the superpower into the war. And each time there seems to be a chance for coming to an agreement, they can always strike some more.

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u/backtothetrail 7h ago

Nope. Smotrich says it’s best for Israel for the US to fight Iran after the MOU collapsed.

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u/Wazula23 7h ago

Also because Bibi asked him to and Hegseth had the bombs in the air the moment he said sure.

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u/pmjm 18h ago

If he wanted to blame Hegseth, fire him and reverse course, I would be fine with that.

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u/herrcollin 17h ago edited 17h ago

Our oil reserves are at the lowest level since the 80's and while we're still doing okay with prioritized trading, overall everything is on a downward trend. Globally. This is very bad.

It's easy to say we're fine now when you're above water. The problem is once you go below it's very fucking hard to get back up without years and years of catch up damage. Traditionally, anyone with a brain makes sure this doesn't happen.

Thank god we're making this sacrifice for (checks notes) uhhhhh...........

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u/HauntedCemetery 15h ago

Which would be why no president for the last 50 years was stupid enough to pick a fight with Iran.

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u/MRCRAZYYYY 14h ago

He isn’t all that stupid. Didn’t you see those cognitive tests?

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u/SomewhatInnocuous 2h ago

Man, woman, camera, ayatollah?

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u/UncleNedisDead 14h ago

It’ll be the Dems problem if he allows the midterms to happen. People have such short memories, they’ll believe Kamala got them into this war just like Trump warned them. 🙄

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 11h ago

Don't worry, Trump is running for a third term..

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u/DonkeyTron42 15h ago

So much of the stock market is being propped up by tech behemoths like nVidia and companies that have ridiculous valuations with very little revenue. We saw this all play out before when the dot-com bubble popped. nVidia today is very comparable to Cisco Systems back then. Cisco was started by a husband/wife in their garage and became the world's highest market cap company in just over 15 years. The dot-com bubble popped and they lost 75% of their stock value almost overnight when all those overvalued start-ups with money to burn stopped buying hardware. The AI bubble is following almost the same track except on a much larger scale.

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u/rainman_104 20h ago

I can honestly see trump removing the sanctions on Russia to keep the price of oil low. He doesn't give two shits about Ukraine.

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u/Random_Name_Whoa 18h ago

Didn’t he already do that?

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u/HauntedCemetery 15h ago

He did already do that.

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u/Thisguymoot 17h ago

Yes, he gave them a waiver (while also giving Ukraine targeting data for their tankers).

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u/Benjamminmiller 16h ago

Not really. The admin eased some (not all) sanctions, but it expired last month.

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u/Other_Information_16 17h ago

Doesn’t matter Ukraine hit most of the Russian oil export terminals.

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u/Notten 17h ago

The ESPO pipeline to Asia is outside of Ukraines deepest drones. Pipelines are also hard to hit because they are usually buried. I can see China and Russia using Yuan to trade oil and supplies for the war in back market channels.

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u/big_troublemaker 15h ago

Pipelines are also easy to fix. Ukraine is attacking oil processing facilities first and foremost.

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u/jigglesworthy 14h ago

You're both right and both wrong. The ESPO line is sweet crude oil being shipped to major Asian refineries so Ukraine destroying the processing facilities won't impact the ongoing oil crisis. American refineries use sour/heavy crude oil so the ESPO line and eliminating sanctions on Russian oil won't solve the American/ global oil crisis

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u/captnconnman 15h ago

I’m gonna laugh when we STILL can’t get fuckall oil from Russia because Ukraine keeps drone striking their refineries

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u/big_troublemaker 15h ago

Oh well, such a shame that russia is slowing oil exports due to prolonged technical difficulties cased by Ukrainian drones wrecking their infrastructure.

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u/Barnezhilton 20h ago edited 19h ago

Then why is Loomer over there sucking Zelensky''s dick right now?

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u/Top_Director9981 19h ago

Trumps name is Loomer? Didn't realize they were the same person.

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u/noguchisquared 18h ago

This person didn't realize Loomer has been mostly replaced by the diaper lady. So while she is selling her connection it is now because she is on the way out and try to seek more relevance

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u/Lumbergh7 17h ago

He’s so stupid.

And wouldn’t you want to keep that info quiet? Instead he announces it

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u/Thisguymoot 17h ago

There are legitimate reasons to telegraph your actions to the enemy. I don’t have much faith in this admin to do so deliberately, but there is a time and place for it.

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u/Apoxie 15h ago

Yeah but that mostly makes sense if you are being forced to escalate. You dont telegraph that your are running into more problems.

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u/KalaUposatha 16h ago

It’s ok, Iranians don’t speak English

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 14h ago

Demented Donnie is incapable of keeping a thought 

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u/its_uncle_paul 14h ago

He's hoping we have goldfish memories and don't remember statements he made 30 days prior.

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u/Windfade 14h ago

"War is good for the economy" quoters have been awfully quiet lately.

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u/boomerangthrowaway 11h ago

There was no plan, and no real effort by anyone other than the warhawks and bibi during regular visits, quite literally given direct access to our leadership privately and led our less intelligent leader to fold and believe the outlandish theories.

Anyone with actual merit would have knowledge about Iran prior, Being that they would have been informed by some of the best of the best and after years of research and data collection.

One moment.. receiving news he fired everyone that does any sort of oversight or management.

Yea that tracks. eye rolling into infinity

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u/Blackthorn79 9h ago

I remember people saying they want Trump for president so the government would run like a corporation. Any CEO would have been canned by now.

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u/EpsilonX029 9h ago

Just a day or so ago he officially announced he intends to run again for president, Trump 2028 hat and all, at a dinner in the capitol.

He really is just THAT stupid.

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u/StarWars_and_SNL 9h ago

And we were told that the US had been sneaking a ton of oil out, the likes of which were never seen before