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    Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics


    Submission statement: the administration is staffed by fucking morons.

    > The reality in the strait has left diplomatic counterparts, former US economic and energy officials and industry executives who spoke with CNN in a state of confusion and disbelief.

    > “Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”

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    1. notjocelynschitt on

      > Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session.
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      > The reason, multiple sources said, was administration officials believed closing the strait would hurt Iran more than the US — a view that was bolstered by Iran’s empty threats to act in the strait after US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last summer.

      How much more incompetence can there possibly be, oh my god 🤦‍♀️

    2. InternetGoodGuy on

      HOW?

      Seriously. How the fuck could they underestimate that? They constantly threaten to lock down the strait. They control the coast line and have thousands upon thousands of long range missiles and drones even if they weren’t able to mine the strait.

      How could these stupid mother fuckers not know this would happen?

    3. WillProstitute4Karma on

      Didn’t we bomb their petroleum infrastructure? I always assumed the reason Iran kept the strait open was because Iran used the strait. So we both took away their own use for the strait and simultaneously gave them a specific reason to close it.

    4. FmrPresAhmadinejad on

      I think it may be possible that there isn’t a single person in the Trump administration that knows what a map is

    5. kevinfederlinebundle on

      That implies that they estimated it at all, a claim of which I am skeptical

    7. musical8thnotes on

      OP, please remember that the average MAGA is not just a moron. They are a confident moron that truly believes that America is simultaneously capable of autarky and low prices.

      It is not, but these are the sorts of people who can’t see past their nose.

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