• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Do you remember why the strait was closed in the first place.

    This is like knocking over someone’s sand castle, getting your ass beat for it, they agree to stop if you rebuild the sand castle, you do and declare victory

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      21 hours ago

      Sorry I thought “trump is a coward for not doubling down and doing a ground invasion” was too stupid of a position to take. I assumed they were saying he chickened out of today’s deadline to open the strait.

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        21 hours ago

        It is, the right position is he should have never started it the first place. Now he’ll scream victory and leave. Only costed millions, if not billions, of dollars and thousands of lives. Such success

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              16 hours ago

              Infrastructure repair around the gulf, hundred billion range, more if bombing continues.

              A few trillion in economic damages around the world probably.

              Reputational damages to the USA resulting in less trade, borrowing costs, etc. is up to a trillion per year in the coming years.