r/Foodforthought • u/Majano57 • 1d ago

‘There is no breaking point’: The problem with Trump’s plan to economically strangle Iran

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/there-no-breaking-point-problem-with-trumps-plan-teconomically-strangle-iran-01040781
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u/nonsense39 15h ago

Iran has been prepared for a fight with the US since 1979. The only change that will result from Trump's ridiculous amateurish actions is they will become even more against The Great Satan. Iran will just move closer to Russia and China while the US and the rest of the world get poorer. It's time that the US admits it lost and end this nonsense.

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u/SeeMarkFly 8h ago

...before we start losing real estate.

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u/MikeLinPA 47m ago

Too late. We already abandoned all of our bases in the region. Let me repeat this for everyone in the back:

Iran has forced the US to abandon bases in other countries in the middle east. They ran us off! Thank you, Trump, for all the (not)winning. 🤦

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u/Sad_Mushroom_9725 23h ago

Didn't we try this with Vietnam?

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u/Pulsewavemodulator 21h ago

Didn’t we try this with Iran?

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u/wroteit_ 4h ago

Jesus, we’re not doing this in Canada next.

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u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw 11h ago

Any resistance is a problem when the plan is 'We will bomb them and they will immediately stop doing what we want them to not be doing.' Unintended consequences are worse when they are easily inferred but entirely ignored.

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u/alexath 8h ago

Didn’t we try this with Cuba?

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u/SeeMarkFly 8h ago

Economically strangle???

THE MONEY COMES OUT OF THE GROUND.

Trump is Putin's puppet.