Subject: Re: Chickenhawk Don’s Desperate Gamble...

... then they should come in and do the easy work of....well, probably seizing a hundred miles of defended mountainous coastline with ground troops.

Typical Republicans: create a situation, for their own benefit, that is disastrous for others, then given the others a lecture about "personal responsibility".

‘Learn How to Fight for Yourself’: Trump Says U.K. and Others Should Go to Strait of Hormuz and 'Take' Oil

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just take it,” he said Tuesday morning.

https://currently.att.yahoo.co...

While #2 is the well worn GOP "personal responsibility" lecture, option #1 is the preferred outcome: bid against USians, for USian oil, driving the price to the stratosphere, for the great profit of Trump the Magnificence's paymasters in big oil.

As I said, it is no coincidence that the Iran operation did not start until Trump appointed himself Generalissimo of Venezuelan oil.

Steve