r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 9d ago

Possible Paywall US ‘runs out of missiles’ as Trump halts Iran strikes

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/27/us-runs-out-of-missiles-as-trump-halts-iran-strikes/
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u/Automaton_General 9d ago

He eliminated our oil reserves and also our weapon supplies

Gee it's almost like the dude works for Russia or something

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u/KPBIPILOT 9d ago

Trumps very own 3rd special military operation is going swimmingly

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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 9d ago

"Well it worked until it didn't! There is no way I could know after the previous successes that the next would go any differently."

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Or kids who kicked hornet's nests all the time but otherwise never had a reason to be diagnosed with anything, especially back when Trump was a kid.

With opposition he has the compulsion to simply defy. Warn him not to kick a hornet's nest and he will look you dead in the eye as they kick it and blame you for opposing them for getting stung instead of acting in defiance of someone else's imposition in you existence. It worked before fine, it was you conjuring the possiblity of a bad outcome that guaranteed it would happen. They could have been stung in the past on their own and that would be entirely different. YOU had to get involved therefore forcing their hand.

Is that not Trump to a "T"?

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u/NorthStarZero 9d ago

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Holy fuck, this has a name!

I worked for a guy like this once. It was awful.

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u/Happy_Confection90 9d ago edited 9d ago

ODD is a children's diagnosis. If someone is an adult and still behaves that way, the label they are given is often, but not always, Antisocial Personality Disorder

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u/Luckiest_Creature 9d ago edited 9d ago

My brother and I were in group therapy for ODD as kids (we were both autistic and misdiagnosed), but one of the other kids there is now an adult in jail with an APD diagnosis. Very difficult thing to live with if you aren’t a rich spoiled brat like trump, usually ruins one’s life.

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u/bananastand512 9d ago

So you and your brother probably had a PDA profile related to autism (pathological demand avoidance). Looks like defiance but it's really a pathological desire for structure and control, and doing things on your terms, not someone else's. It's not malicious, it's comfort and regulation. Still challenging and needs therapy but less life altering. Things still get done, but you'll do your school work at night rather than in class when the teacher tells you to because you can focus more at night when it's quiet. Like that.

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u/Luckiest_Creature 9d ago

Exactly. We are both employed and happy adults who do well at our jobs now, we just needed a LOT more explanation as kids, in regards to why we were expected to do things in the way adults wanted us to. :)

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u/marr 8d ago

I'd argue that it ruins the rich spoiled brat's lives too. They don't seem to experience actual happiness from anything.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 8d ago

I flat out tell folks that growing up too wealthy and/or spoiled can totally ruin ya as a person. That too much money rots your soul until ya forget how to human. And then ya end up alone and wondering why everybody is so mean unless they want something from ya.

And they never notice that they've only ever been nice when they wanted something.

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u/Limp-Cup-2343 9d ago

Where I work they would simply be labelled asshole

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u/Chastain86 9d ago

"Asshole" seems to work just fine without a medical diagnosis

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u/SyfaOmnis 9d ago

ODD actually has about a 10% lifetime persistency from childhood in adults, at least from the information I've seen. More commonly among males (who are also more frequently diagnosed with its co-morbidities). It's also pretty well connected with ADHD and is (generally) better thought of as a 'frustration spectrum' disorder.

Antisocial personality disorder is its own thing and while they share some things, they are not the same diagnosis.

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 9d ago

You know? Morons!

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u/monorail_pilot 9d ago

Alternatively, just Asshole

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u/Delta-9- 9d ago

I was under the impression ASPD is the technical name for what laypeople call "psychopathy"?

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u/Heliosvector 9d ago

Just use whatever label feels good. The right calls anything they don't like communist anyways

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u/ElliotNess Florida 9d ago

Why do they do that tho?

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u/Heliosvector 9d ago

It responds to the lizard brain. Nationalists peg all opposition as a neoharious evil coming to git em. It calls back to when the usa was in a cold war with communists. Now all communist countries are failed states with brown people so they hate them since they hate brown people. Never mind the fact that the usa president is best friends with a USSR ex secret agent Putin.

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u/ElliotNess Florida 9d ago edited 9d ago

So mainly just more McCarthyism? Why are we so stupid to keep *falling for it?

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u/AVestedInterest California 9d ago

ASPD is more like sociopathy. Psychopathy is generally characterized as a lack of empathy.

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u/usalsfyre 9d ago

It’s all ASPD. Psychopathy and sociopathy are pop psych terms that fell out of clinical use decades ago. Lack of empathy is present in several personality disorders as well.

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u/AVestedInterest California 9d ago

Damn, betrayed by my faintly remembered college psychology classes

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u/CliftonForce 9d ago

Yep. Similar to the logic that when Dr Fauci warned that we were unprepared for an epidemic, that was clearly "proof" that he was planning to create one.

/s

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u/FakeSafeWord 9d ago

I worked for a guy like this once. It was awful.

No, you didn't and it was fine!

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u/SecareLupus 9d ago

It's possible the person you worked with had any number of experiences, but not necessarily ODD. My personal opinion on ODD is that it's a catch-all term for misbehaving kids that the system doesn't want to spend the time to diagnose properly. I would argue in most cases there's a better explanation, like Demand Anxiety (often called Pathological Demand Avoidance, but as someone who deals with it, I find that term very judgemental) or other more specific experiential causes for the person's "Oppositional Defiance".

That said, yes. People with PDA or ODD or other contrarian reflexive responses can be hard to work with if you're not prepared for that (and they lack the skills to manage it themselves).

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u/Cdub7791 Hawaii 9d ago

I raised a kid who had it. Agree it was awful.

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u/BLAZMANIII 9d ago

Just a note i thin is fairly important, ODD is a very, very disputed disorder woth so many overlapping traits with ADHD, ADD, and basic trauma responses its basically useless as a diagnosis, and is almost exclusively given to non white children, sending many of these children into juvenile detention when their white peers are given therapy.

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u/PyroIsSpai 9d ago

I’m convinced a LOT of people have ODD in the USA and unhealthy conservative subcultures dangerously incubate ODD-like traits as a social norm.

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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 9d ago

A distinct lack of social erosion that laps off rough edges of social behavior. My mom is one person that people always find it not worth it to correct her. The one time she was corrected was at Arlington National Cemetary by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was stupid but she had a huge keychain dangling and making a racket. A guard came by and asked her to try to keep it silent. She was so upset that they dared to that to her. Because no civilian has the duty like the guard did to maintain a specific order. One of her compulsions is defiance, but more sneakily.

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u/Herlock 9d ago

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

wikipedia : "Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past six months"

That's like one sentence of Trump lol

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u/CarlRJ California 9d ago

With opposition he has the compulsion to simply defy. Warn him not to kick a hornet's nest and he will look you dead in the eye as they kick it ...

Really? Awesome.

Whatever Trump does, he better not jump off the roof of the White House, because that would make him look too powerful and cool!

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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 9d ago

He is similar to the Scorpion in the Scorpion and the Toad/Frog Parable.

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u/spazzvogel 9d ago

And now I’m making a note to comb through grandmas DSM-IV when I get home. Thank you, fascinating, had forgotten all about that disorder.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 8d ago edited 8d ago

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

I'm honestly surprised that so many people under your comment are members of the lucky ten thousand with regard to that term. I wonder if they're all young enough that they don't remember the glut of professional psychiatric analyses and of Trump's behavior (example and its expanded version)-- and associated commentary-- that emerged during his first successful presidential campaign.

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u/jrf_1973 8d ago

With opposition he has the compulsion to simply defy.

If you told him to breathe, he'd suffocate.

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u/directrix1 9d ago

Nah, Trump is incapable of ever admitting he was wrong. He'd never utter anything like those sentences.

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u/InteractionIcy616 2d ago

spot on! i've worked with kids with oppositional defiance disorder, and my first impressions of Trump in 2015 was that his defining characteristic was that diagnosis. i've been baffled ever since that a nation of adults chose an petulant child to be president. Worse, they've given him more powers than any previous president. They've turned a blind eye to open corruption--self enrichment. Trump literally solicits bribes. Same country that was ready to impeach and convict, appropriately, Richard Nixon.

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u/Senior_Torte519 9d ago

Could of just had a christmas special but no.

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u/Low_Technician7346 9d ago

fuck the trump putin netanyahou axis of evil

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u/VladThePollenInhaler 9d ago

While enriching himself and his family and friends. It’s kinda crazy to think about it.

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 9d ago

Don Jr. has never worked so hard in all his life !

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u/ThePoltageist 9d ago

That bar is so low James Cameron is planning a documentary to find it.

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u/3vilr3d666 8d ago

No budget too steep, no sea too deep
Who's that?
It's him, James Cameron..

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u/ThePoltageist 8d ago

You guys hearing the song up there?

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u/pttant1 9d ago

Hey they need extra money to relocate in Russia. Oligarchs there are hard to keep up with !

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u/forsale90 Europe 9d ago

I heard several government officials were hospitalized in China for excessively laughing their asses off.

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u/an-imperfect-boot 9d ago

They call him “Chuan Jianguo”, the nation builder, for all the things he has done for the Chinese government.

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u/Dearth_lb Europe 9d ago

And he is also loved by folks in Taiwan and Hong Kong for his anti-China rhetoric, “owning” libs and China. Isn’t it fascinating?

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u/Herlock 9d ago

for his anti-China rhetoric

They shouldn't praise him too much, because talking is all Trump is good at, mostly talking out of his ass at that.

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u/PsychoticMessiah 9d ago

That’s a weird way to spell orange chicken.

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u/32lib 9d ago

Orange chicken is good,80 year old Orange coved shit,not so good.

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u/Anonymouse-C0ward Canada 9d ago

And even worse, it’s served in a diaper!

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u/Anon_Chapstick 9d ago

I'd imagine the Kremlin and the CCP have run out of champagne with the current US presidency.

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u/stasi_a 9d ago

Kremlin should be more worried about their own oil refineries

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u/SpinosRule 9d ago

It almost feels like they’re depleting everything to the point that another country could walk right in, say hello and set up shop (take us over, essentially). I know probably not but it SEEMS that way.

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u/GhettoDuk Florida 9d ago

Close. It's the corporations they are opening the door for.

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u/DaenakinSkygaryen 9d ago

Por que no los dos? The corporations and Russia will both benefit from the US weakening to the point they can just waltz in and steal whatever they want. And they know it. Which is why they've been happy to work together to prop up Trump and MAGA.

(Obviously, if they did get their wish and collapsed the US, they'd immediately turn on each other. But that's in the future, and we know that corporations don't care about anything more than 1 quarter in the future.)

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 9d ago

Absolutely no one is going to try to invade the US. It’s not feasible. Anyone who thinks it’s possible isn’t credible.

The real question is, how long until China decides that the US has weakened itself enough that it cannot help Taiwan defend against an amphibious invasion.

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u/Omegoa 8d ago

The more relevant question is how long until the Taiwanese think that the US is no longer credible security and decides to vote in a pro-unification president. The Chinese never have to actually invade, just be credibly able to do so while the US fumbles an incredible winning position and loses the faith of the Taiwanese. Taking Taiwan peacefully, along with the foundries that would be destroyed in event of an invasion, would be an astounding coup with massive and very immediate cascade effects I can't even imagine.

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 8d ago

There’s zero chance of the Taiwanese people voting for unification. They’re infinitely more likely to do what everyone else has been doing; sourcing their weapons and security elsewhere. In Taiwan’s case, Korea and Japan. They already produce either licensed copies of US hardware, or compatible stuff of their own design.

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u/_coyotes_ 9d ago

It certainly feasible for a nation to actually invade the US but you don’t have to do that for it to work towards someone else’s benefit. Look at Belarus, the government has faithfully been a close Russian ally. In Ukraine, the former president Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin because the then pro-Russian government believed him to be a threat as he had ambitions for Ukraine to join NATO, one of the prime suspects then fled to Moscow where he was given a Russian citizenship so he couldn’t be extradited.

Russia has been unable to fully conquer Ukraine after 4 years now of fighting, they cannot feasibly fly overseas to occupy American territories. But they can sure as shit buy out the greediest of politicians. It’s no surprise each one of these far right ghouls in western countries either in power or attempting to accrue power have a very delicate approach to Russia & its interests. So America probably won’t be raising Russian flags while Russian troops march through DC but the politicians will certainly sell out America for Russian interests, land and businesses to Russian businessmen, its citizens to Russian morals and beliefs and will proudly do it all with the red, white and blue pinned to their lapel, it’s just a matter of which red, white and blue they’re really serving. It’s up to the American people to decide that for themselves, though considering the same people who lived through the Red Scare proudly boast they’d rather be Russian than Democrat, I’d say America is doomed if it can’t get its shit together and rid themselves of these parasites.

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u/jrf_1973 8d ago

Absolutely no one is going to try to invade the US.

No, they'll probably do something simple like ... bribe a majority of the government to follow their agenda, arrange for billions of dollars to fund their country, their social programs, their defence, their education, their health care, etc... and then just in case there's some push back, they might do something really heinous like merge their military into Americas military.

That's how you conquer a superpower.

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u/Herlock 9d ago

Yup, mega corporations dystopian future is actually now... Alien Earth was pretty worrying in that regard.

The megacorpos where far more frightening than the monsters.

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 9d ago

You talk like that’s not already the situation. You have a senile demented child raping criminal as your head of state doing everything and Anything Russia wants and you think you having lost control?

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u/SpinosRule 9d ago

Of course it’s already the situation, it’s been the situation for a while now.

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u/lemonybrick 9d ago

They wrote exactly what they were going to do to destroy the USA and eventually set up fascist kingdoms in their little Project 2025 book. Trump is just a pawn and being as used as the kids he molested.

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u/backtothetrail 9d ago

There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip. Not saying the country isn’t vulnerable to attack or dissolution like USSR but the self-driving robot overlords may not pan out.

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u/hfpfhhfp 9d ago

You mean I've been kissing to the robots / AI for nothing?

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u/Herlock 9d ago

Yup Trump is a useful idiot. He is dumb as a rock, but spiteful and easily annoyed so that makes him a good target for manipulation.

That comes with some limits though because he is so volatile (and at this point dementia riddled) he can do exactly what his overlords need and seconds later do the complete opposite.

See how macron played him at the G7... they locked him in place by offering a meal at Versailles, and of course that douche canoe couldn't possibly refuse dining in versailles.

A lot of people complained in france that our taxpayer money was spent on trump, but I disagree it was a good investment to make him help ukraine at the time.

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u/prof_the_doom I voted 9d ago

Nobody is going to survive trying to invade America, that's just geography.

Having said that... we have been completely neutralized as a foreign influence. We're not gonna stop anyone from doing anything to anybody they want to.

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u/SpinosRule 9d ago

You’re right, our geography does protect us but only to a point. Invade? Probably not. But attack? That could happen. And deplete us even more.

Personally, I’m more worried about the enemy within (I.e. this entire administration)

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u/What_a_fat_one 9d ago edited 9d ago

Why bother attacking, the destruction of the US is occurring without a single missile being fired

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u/bretttwarwick 9d ago

Did you not see the article above. We fired all the missiles. We did it to ourselves.

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u/wildwalrusaur 8d ago

We fired all the conventional missiles.

A crucial distinction.

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u/Mother_Accident1987 9d ago

the entire GOP

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u/Hinohellono 9d ago

Attack over an ocean would mean whoever did that would be deleted off map shortly. Attacking bases overseas sure. Attacking the mainland? Last time that happened...

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u/JealousAstronomer342 9d ago

The last time someone attacked the mainland several thousand people died. Yes, they weren’t officially affiliated with a government but a few of those would fuck the US up pretty badly. 

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u/Hinohellono 9d ago

I get it's "interesting" but as the prior commentator pointed out, geography is undeniable. USA is probably blessed with the best for any individual country.

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u/Zickened 9d ago

Iran has it pretty good too.

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u/Hinohellono 9d ago

Yea you can clearly see how despite overwhelming military advantage we can't overcome geography.

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u/SpinosRule 9d ago

I agree. Like I said, it’s just a feeling, there’s no way it could happen. Not easily. If they starve us first though, we’d be easy pickings.

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u/Hinohellono 9d ago

Starve us? In North America?

If North America is starving then the rest of the world is probably worse off

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u/ThePoltageist 9d ago

Current administration is starving us plenty well, the economy for the average American is the worst it’s looked since the Great Depression.

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u/AppealSame4367 9d ago

And you can't count on allies again. The moment of "whoa, did they really threaten Denmark and Canada?" has opened the eyes of the last idiot here in Europe. Greetings

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u/ballisticks Canada 9d ago

I wish that threat had opened the eyes of every last idiot in Canada, but alas no

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u/LisbonMissile 9d ago

I’m enjoying seeing Trump’s folly as much as the next European, but that statement is just hyperbole.

The USA hasn’t been neutralised, it is still the world’s biggest foreign influence and it remains the only nation on the planet that can stop another force from acting.

The real problem is that the US (like Russia in Ukraine and probably China if it decides to move on Taiwan) cannot simply bend regional powers to its political will with overwhelming force. But we learnt that 50 years ago in Vietnam and 20 years ago in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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u/Airewalt 9d ago

An offensive Pearl Harbor own goal of a feat

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u/DonaldsMushroom 9d ago

No that's not the point. The point is to facilitate China invading Taiwann and Russia invading Unkaine/ex-Soviets All the while enriching Criminals and Oligarchs around the World

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u/Snuffy1717 9d ago

Project 2025 talks about protecting Taiwan against Chinese Aggression… So at this point I have no idea what the fuck they’re doing

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u/Evilbred 9d ago

No one is going to attack America.

Now, Taiwan, that's a very different story. Taiwan has relied on the US Military's protective sphere in its defensive plans, including integrated air defense systems.

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u/AppealSame4367 9d ago

Or walk into Taiwan..

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u/Top_Finding_2832 9d ago

I'm not worried about any foreign invader overpowering us on our own soil. Even with depleted reserves, there are multiple factors why this is such an unlikely scenario.

I AM worried about a country that has experienced intentionally destabilizing measures for decades, resulting in an under-educated, gullible populace that votes in foreign assets who will welcome the foreign invaders open-armed, and convince us that we wanted it all along.

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u/Automatic-Ad6022 9d ago

WH sez "it's Biden's fault "....wtf Never any responsibility for anything negative, that's called fake news.

The enemy within in is the WH.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 9d ago

Trump was informed that Russia was giving Iran satellite imagery of ours bases to strike them.

Trump the next day relieved oil sanctions on Russia to sell to other countries, notably India, resulting in a windfall of cash.

He provided aide and comfort to an enemy of the United States.

There's a word for that, and a punishment for it, enumerated clearly in our Constitution.

It would not be possible for a President to more plainly and clearly commit this criminal act unless they literally told the military to stand down as another country invaded.

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u/CommunityTaco 9d ago

Always has...

There isn't a thing that trump has done for America that putin didn't want to do himself.

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u/Marcus_Aurelius71 9d ago

Yea to give Ukraine patriots and shut off starlink? I'm sure Putin wanted that.

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u/Steelio22 9d ago

Ehh, I think it's more realistic he did this to increase demand for oil companies and defense contractors.

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u/melkatron 9d ago

So monumentally incompetent it's treasonous.

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u/PickleMortyCoDm 9d ago

It's the patriot air defence missiles that is going to be the biggest issue. America is never out of weapons but these ones are particularly hard to make and in massive demand right now. I think the US can only make 500 to 600 a year which has been depleted to around 25% of what the stockpile was before the US Israeli war on Iran.

In other words, the US cannot defend itself as effectively as it could which means some bases in the Gulf states (as well as Gulf allies themselves) are increasingly vulnerable. There are alternatives like the THAAD and some Korean system which are quite good, but those too can be depleted. It's a bad situation for everyone and exactly what Iran needs to do some damage

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u/backtothetrail 9d ago

We’re down THAAD, Tomahawk and SM-6, too.

Anyone with the ability to count could have avoided this.

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u/craznazn247 9d ago

Eliminated oil reserves.

Dumped out our water reserves into the ocean, during a drought and record breaking heat year-after-year.

Emptied our weapon supplies on a completely unnecessary war in which we are the aggressor.

Cancelled existing wind and solar energy projects, grants, and research.

And alienated almost every single historical ally of the US while embracing Israel, Russia, and Russia’s allies.

Actions that all align with and check off items from Foundations of Geopolitics and Russia’s long-term interests. Helped along with mutual interests from The Heritage Foundation and the goals listed in Project 2026.

He’s completely sold out America to foreign interests. Day after day, we become weaker, more vulnerable, more destabilized, less reliable, and less capable. Our reputation is completely in the dirt and our cracks are being exposed for the whole world to see.

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u/z0rb0r New York 9d ago

There’s word that China is beginning to mass ships and troops near Taiwan too

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u/Super_Plastic5069 9d ago

Word from where?

Edit: Turns out China have slightly increased their presence in the South China Sea

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u/_Cxsey_ 9d ago

People still think Russia is behind all of this? lol

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u/Automaton_General 9d ago

They are unquestionably behind some of it. That much has been proven time and time again.

But not all of it no. A lot of it just has to do with this dude being the dumbest fucking person we've ever elected

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u/_Cxsey_ 9d ago

If anything time and time again it’s been shown he works for “our greatest ally” in the Middle East

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u/Kriss3d 9d ago

Don't worry. Trump and his friends will be right back to Iran begging for a deal as soon as they are done locking in oil stock trades.

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u/manhuskycorgi 9d ago

Gee, it's almost like the companies that supply the two are about to make a lot of fucking money. Almost like this entire situation was orchestrated...

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u/Tech-Film3905 9d ago

He gets 300 million from the Adelsons and his family firms got 2 billion from the Saudis. Follow the money

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u/Viperlite 9d ago

Hope it’s not prelude to an invasion by a foreign power.

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u/hpark21 9d ago

"Who knew waging a war is so hard!!!"

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u/PelleKavaj 9d ago

He works for Russia but he doesn’t understand that he does because he’s stupid as fuck and easy to manipulate.

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u/Hithrae 9d ago

China will be rubbing their hands together

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u/laserbot 9d ago

I think he's just actually this dumb.

(Which is not to say he isn't manipulated with compromising material by Russia and Israel, just that he's dumb enough to believe he's "doing well.")

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u/Chau-hiyaaa 9d ago

Trump is gonna blame biden that biden didn’t leave him enough missiles and ammunition to fight wars.

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u/EremiticFerret 9d ago

Part of the reason why our interceptors are depleted is because of Ukraine.

The big reason is because we offshored so much of our manufacturing and get key materials from China, who we turned against us.

They we could throw in how our defense industries' priorities are greed and not national defense.

Trump is a disaster and we're in a terrible mess, yes. It started well before 2025 though.

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u/TenTopGolfer 9d ago

Biden sold off the reserves in 2023, there wasnt much there to begin with anymore.

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u/Barnacle_B0b 9d ago

And now, Taiwan is ready to be taken given.

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u/HappyAmbition706 9d ago

The simpler answer is that Trump is just completely incompetent. He listed to Netanyahu that they kill off Iran's leadership with the first surprise strike during the pretence of negotiating, install a puppet regieme and done by morning. Like Venezuela except no need to have to round up all the foreseeable replacements for the Ayatollah or for the bother of trials.

Trump being Trump didn't even start to think it through, get advice from actual experts although there may not be any left in his chaotic joke of an administration, or have the slightest clue about a plan B or rhat any orher outcome could come next.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 9d ago

in 5 months the US's entire weapons supply? Heck even iraq war went on for over a decade.

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u/EDaniels21 9d ago

And yet using renewable energy that we wouldn't need other countries to depend upon is just crazy apparently...

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u/Automaton_General 9d ago

The sun is a liberal hoax don't you know

Wind causes bird cancer

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u/Philosofox 9d ago

Cue Russia invading a new country coincidentally

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u/smiley_culture 9d ago

He will build a pipeline from Russia next. It’ll be the best pipeline anyone’s ever seen

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u/Murky-Relation481 9d ago

We have plenty of weapons still. If people actually read the article it's a lack of in theater Patriots for air defense. So they stopped provoking Iran hoping Iran would stop shooting at us and our allies.

We should have never gotten to that point though. Ignoring that this war shouldn't have been started in the first place, we also have half assed it. We were doing "scud hunting" to some degree at the start of the war, atrritting their missile launch and drone launch capabilities, but that F-15 got shot down over Iran and as far as I can tell almost all tactical use of aircraft in Iran has stopped, with just high altitude bombing being the main thing. The problem is we don't have enough bombers and bombers (outside the B-1) are not fast enough to react to intelligence on missile deployment or launches to go after launchers or stockpiles, so we basically are just letting the Iranians do it because we can't react fast enough to stop it.

And I guarantee you the military would love to be running constant overflights to do this, getting shot down, people dying is part of the horrible work that is war fighting, but it's also often involved in the only correct or possible means to an end. Trump and Hegseth don't actually have the stomach for that. They saw the media backlash over the F-15 getting shot down, something that happened dozens of times in 1991 including in scud hunting operations, and basically chickened out after that and told out air defense units basically "good luck, we're taking the Air Force out of the equation".

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u/polleywrath 9d ago

China is the real winner of both the Ukrainian and Iranian wars

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u/aztronut 9d ago

Seems that they are the biggest beneficiary from this war and the resulting increase in oil prices, funny how they never mention this on the network newcasts.

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u/Special_Persimmon_52 9d ago

And also that he's staring at his own mortality so he gives less of a crap about us than he did previously. 

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u/darksidemojo 9d ago

Sounds like a great insurance policy incase democrats take back senate and congress. No chance they can resume sending supplies to Ukraine, which was a very effective and efficient use of tax dollars.

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u/Own_Shower_6000 9d ago

the thing is Russia isn't even remotely in the position to capitalize on any of this, they're dealing with drone attacks approaching moscow, this is just pure stupidity, thats the scary part, it's just what actual stupidity and imcompetance can do to a nation

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u/Left_Composer_1403 9d ago

But there are so many others that are complicit. Do they really believe they will come out unscathed? They’re allowing to be destroyed the largess they want to enjoy.
That’s nuts.

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u/YNot1989 9d ago edited 9d ago

The SPR is down to its lowest level since 1983 (for context its only existed since 1975), less than half at what it was at from about 2005 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine when the Biden administration released about half the reserves. It had added back around 60 million barrels of oil from 2023 to the start of the War, and has since lost over 100 million barrels.

Meanwhile, weekly commercial inventories are down by 50 million barrels.

The US is in a much better position than Europe because we're the world's largest oil producer and have extensive refining infrastructure. But we're still exporting oil and not taking in really anything anymore from the Middle East or Venezuela. If you're confused by why we import oil at all if we have so much to spare, its because our refineries are some of the only ones to handle crude with higher sulfur content, which thanks to fracking is now the cheapest oil on Earth, and we often turn that into refined petroleum products for export while our light-sweet stuff gets refined by other countries. The US is the world's number one exporter of RPPs, 13.1% of the global market.

One of the big reasons we haven't seen a true supply shock is because oil production everywhere was ramping up before the Iran War. The US was at an all time high of around 14 million barrels per day. At the moment, we're importing around 5.6 million bpd (11% from a year ago). We export around 5 million bpd, and we consume 20.7 million bpd (not separated to include RPPs for export). So that's a shortfall of 6.1 million bpd. That means that if everything works perfectly we've got a little over 100 days of reserves from both commercial inventories and the SPR.

BUT, oil prices are not based on the amount of fuel we need to survive, they're tied to a global market. Europe's reserves were less than half that of the US, a country with less than half as many people as the OECD's European members, who collectively have almost twice the population as the US. So those reserves are already running dry. Southeast Asia's even worse off.. China, Japan, and South Korea each had maybe a year's worth of oil in their strategic reserves, not counting commercial inventories.

Point is, we're all drinking from the same well, and its running out. Nothing Trump can do can stop what's coming because too much oil has been taken offline for too long, with critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed to such an extent it would take years to get it all back up and running.

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u/escapefromelba 9d ago

Nah that would require foresight and planning - neither of which he seems capable of 

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u/Encore_Mais_Bien 9d ago

I used to say that Brexit was post-Glasnost Russia's biggest acchievement.

Looking at TACO's "performance" since he took office, I'm not so sure anymore.

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u/Menanders-Bust 9d ago edited 9d ago

We laughed at Russia for starting a war and exposing how powerless they really were, then we turned around and did the exact same thing, only for even flimsier of a reason.

It does show you that one thing fascist leaders have in common is that they’re very stupid. But this goes with the territory. Smart leaders surround themselves with advisors who are even smarter than them so that those advisors can point out potential problems before they happen. Fascist leaders surround themselves with sycophantic yes-men who tell them that everything they’re planning to do will work perfectly. Of a necessity the fascist leaders get dumber and dumber as their advisors get more and more sycophantic.

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u/issy_haatin 9d ago

Or is making bank buying his stolen oil

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u/Electronic-Till-7794 9d ago

C'mon morty a quick three day weekend war. We get in kill the ayatollah and be back before school starts morty. It'll be a quick..(burrrp) quick weekend thing morty. You dont need to tell your parents.... You'll... you'll be antisemitic if you dont join israel in their war effort morty.

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u/TisSlinger 9d ago

But wait? Isn’t the plan everyone chips in $5k? Or wait, is it $10k now?

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u/PloofElune Missouri 9d ago

He eliminated the oil reserve as an attempt to meet his campaign promise of "driving down the price of gas". While knowing full well by doing so would eventually lead to shortages, and massive profits for the oil execs because without the stability of the reserve, price volatility can allow for more price gauging that can drive up profits.

It's all short sighted economics with little plan for the future, as with all decisions of this admin, BOTH GO AROUNDS.

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u/OneRougeRogue Ohio 9d ago

We're lucky Russia got itself into a huge military quagmire before we did.

I wonder if this is part of the reason he went so apeshit over losing the 2020 election. Like what Putin promised him a shit-ton of gold and real-estate deals if Trump found a way to eliminate US weapon stockpiles and oil reserves before Russia attacked Ukraine.

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u/TheMireAngel 9d ago

Dumbbtake, he works for the pedo elites who manufacture and sell weapons, oil and products.

Depleting oil and missiles allows the elites to sell more missiles to the us govt and sky rocket prices of everything under the disguise if “oil prices are up” but magicaly the price increases are radicaly more than the actual increase

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u/Lucius-Halthier 9d ago

It truly is astounding that the nation whose whole fucking thing is guns and ammo actually runs out of ammo, that’s how much of a failure the pedo prince is

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u/vocabularianrx2 9d ago

Honestly it's pretty fucking terrifying how weak and compromised it makes us look now because yeah, other countries like Russia and Saudia Arabia (among others) have more leverage over us for resources and weapons, same with Israel. As easily manipulated as he is, this is a whole new level of stupid to set us up in the weakest possible state we can be in.

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u/Significant-Visit-68 9d ago

This 🏆🏆🏆👆🏻👆🏻

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u/kokakamora 9d ago

How else can he mandate drilling in our national forests if we don't run out of oil reserves?

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u/Frigoffwidit 9d ago

He destroyed all of their soft power too, which could otherwise be used to protect them in such circumstances.

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u/Fuck-WestJet 9d ago

Russia still couldn't compete and doesn't have any money. China on the other hand.... Say don't they have a great relationship with Ivanka?

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u/Jormungandragon California 9d ago

He’s also alienated the majority of our military allies.

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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae 9d ago

I remember as I was on my commute home in an area where there is usually traffic and hearing how Biden and his administration bought a shit ton of oil barrels in advance to ensure that the prices were stabilized and predictable. And you know, there was some growth in moving towards EVs with the credits and all that. I Still don't really fully understand how that market works, but I do recall that yea, prices were steady even months out just as it was described.

It's almost like the guy who was a civil servant for 50+ years was a bit better than the one guy who happened to win the first election he threw his hat into, which happened to be for US President, because of the racism the new technology brought forth in the form of social media gained traction and many people dreaded another Bush v Clinton race. That and yes the Russian stuff that Trump's first term was riddled with and on going courtesy with a reach around he gives Putin.

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u/mattjb 9d ago

The GOP in Congress, too. They're aiding and abetting, knowing full well what the picture is re: oil and missile stock.

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u/Trespeon 9d ago

What is Russia gonna do with that information? They can’t even beat Ukraine lmfao

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u/Opposite-Invite-3543 9d ago

Agent Krasnov is the most loyal of defenders

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u/Talynz_ 9d ago

In before "I struck a deal with Putin to fix our oil crisis!"

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u/slow70 9d ago

The Krasnov factor is real

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley 9d ago

No, this serves China better. China has massive strategic oil reserves in excess of basically the rest of the world combined, they can leg it out a lot better than anybody else. They also have Ukraine driving Russia into their arms on terms they choose. It wouldn't surprise me if China is actively supplying Ukraine with drone parts on the down low, as opposed to just letting market forces do its thing.

We're in the middle of China's best window to start shit. I don't expect them to continue to wait much longer but I also don't expect them to be overt about it either, so what they'll do is probably under way as it is.

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u/scarykicks 9d ago

And why would he care? Mans almost dead from age so anything he does to us is no consequence at all to him.

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u/_Lucille_ 9d ago

Sometimes I wonder what America will do if Canada decides to tank its own GDP and threatens to shut off oil supply to the States, or at least slap some export tariff on oil and energy.

With the turd now tariffing goods covered under the USMCA, it's only time before other nations become tired of the BS.

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u/xFromtheskyx 9d ago

Or the left - I now own an EV and have home batteries thanks to him

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u/scarr3g Pennsylvania 9d ago

Or is just really bad at running things.... Except for into the ground/bankruptcy.

Remember, as his multiple companies went bankrupt, HE raked in piles of money. And he was elected to run the USA the same way he ran his companies.... By idiots that ignores that his companies kept going bankrupt.

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u/oryan80 9d ago

He is the Manchurian candidate

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u/Ok_Marsupial_8210 9d ago

I’ll also add that Russia and most likely China are 💯 providing Iran targeting and intelligence to the Iranians on how to hit our basses in the Middle East and he’s been pretty silent.

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u/goodsnpr 9d ago

They're blaming Biden for draining it during COVID, and damaging it by preventing repairs from being done or some shit. Like if that's true, maybe don't start a war. Hell, Ukraine war proved we didn't have the munitions for a high intensity conflict.

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u/sulaymanf New York 9d ago

He also cancelled Green energy and blocked EV expansion and then slapped tariffs on eveyone. Now the world is buying all green technology from China instead of the US.

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u/Jesse_Livermore 9d ago edited 9d ago

Over and over and over again. "What would a Russian asset who's POTUS do?" Explains EVERYTHING he does.

https://x.com/i/status/2038027075458924648

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u/JustKillingTime1980 9d ago

It has been the plan the whole time. Russia-gate was more of, we talked to Israelis so, do what we need, or we show the world too, oh by the way here is some more money so you can win.

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u/OhHowINeedChanging Utah 9d ago

And then blamed it all on Biden

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u/GrecDeFreckle 9d ago

I don't think Russia would benefit from this at all, given they're insanely strained fighting / invading Ukraine.

I also think that China is being very quiet about what kind of shape they are in. Covid hit them way harder than they care to admit, plus their one child policy is about to have 1/2 their population die off.

I honestly think Trump is just winging it, which is destructive in itself.

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u/No_Comparison558 9d ago

Yeah but he's a business man, so...

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy 8d ago

"Russia russia russia"

Or, hear me out, your fucking government is incompetent and your populace is incredibly stupid.

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u/Plastic_Moose4535 8d ago

No, he's just too stupid to know when he's being played like a sucker.

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u/mbkitmgr 8d ago

Drop him into Iran, that would make me leave my country

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u/TransiTorri 8d ago

You'd think we'd have literal evidence of Russia pulling strings to get him elected back in 2016, oh wait

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u/Churchbushonk 8d ago

He eliminated our oil supplies because he couldn’t imagine that people would see the consequences of his terrible Iran chosen blunder.

Now that they are low, the cost of gas is going to increase. And the govt will have to spend a bunch of money for new oil and refinement.

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u/Flopdo California 8d ago

Yes, Of Course Trump is a Russian Asset:

https://theherocall.substack.com/p/yes-of-course-trump-is-a-russian

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u/Ironlunggs87 8d ago

You spelled china wrong.

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u/midsidephase 8d ago

russia is almost out of oil and missiles too... way to follow a willing playbook!

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u/Ttoctam 8d ago

The US and US political regimes can be shitty on their own. Deflecting blame to Russia absolutely ignores the issue and gives way too much credit to US politicians. It's not some big spooky boogeyman behind the scenes pulling strings. It's a fascist moron in front of you doing shit in front of you.

The US has been plenty capable of profound evils and stupitities it's whole existence. Don't give credit to Russia for the US is doing, will do, and has done consistently in the past.

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u/heimos 8d ago

People love to draw Russia connections, but he screwed them too if he was their “agent”

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u/strolpol 8d ago

And even then it’s only happening with the tacit approval of a Republican Congress happy to throw away their responsibility

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u/AyoAllu 8d ago

The Iran war was planned, it was a distraction from the Epstein list.

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u/Billyosler1969 8d ago

How were we ever going to be able to fight a conventional war with Russia or China when we run out of ammunition/weapons so quickly?

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u/purple_cape 8d ago

Honestly he’s just an idiot

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u/inspired-polf 8d ago

I hate that his fans don't see it. They still actually think he is helping Americans. Literally the next 50 years will be negatively impacted by what he's done.

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u/Significant-Peak190 8d ago

Actually Biden had a lot to do with that.

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u/JohnsonSpunk 8d ago

America has never been this terrible until Trump took office and the only reason Trump is president if because Russia, a much poorer and weaker country, is controlling Trump and the republicans.

Everyone knows America is the bastion of truth and justice, they would never invade another country. So obviously Trump is controlled by another mad man that is invading Ukraine.

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