In a speech on Long Island, NY Donald Trump just freelances to a friendly crowd about something that is just NOT gonna happen….
Hurting Iran so much that they could begging for US economic help?
Wait?
Isn’t Iran OWED BILLIONS from sanctions and old bills from the US and other countries?
ANYBODY think Iran is gonna ‘beg ‘ Donald Trump for ANYTHING?
And here we go again….
Trump want’s to rename another body of water to the Strait of America from The Strait of Hormuz???
Mean while ?
The media is digging into the backgrounder on the US Military logistical issues resulting from the Iranians attacking US bases in the Gulf….
Despite assurances from Defense Sec. hegseth and Trump?
It DOES seem that Iran HAS scored some strategic military moves against the US in Gulf countries AND the Strait…
Pushing the conflict to stall and make the US military play catch up in addtion to wearing out the troops…..
This is NOT gonna get Better…..
And seems to be getting Worse….
NY Post..
President Trump said Friday that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz “a territory of the United States” after the Iran war — as he again slammed US allies for not helping break Tehran’s hold on the waterway.
“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said during a Long Island rally for Republican candidates in the gubernatorial and congressional elections….
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Trump’s preliminary peace deal with Iran — signed June 17 — fell apart last month after Iran attempted to assert control over the strait, including by opening fire on commercial ships that used a US-approved sea lane along Oman’s coast.
The president previously floated in March renaming the waterway “the Strait of America” — or even after himself — after European and Asian allies balked at launching a joint effort to secure the oil and gas bottleneck….
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The president appeared to lean into his recent messaging that Iranian economic woes could help bring the Islamic Republic to its knees….
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Spotlight on US Military issues from Iran’s Gulf Attacks and the US Plan ‘B’ that has effected the US Military logistics
NY Times….
The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problemsbegan soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack drones fell on a Navy base in Bahrain.
The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base. And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.
The Navy needed a Plan B to continue feeding the sailors working around the clock to keep warplanes flying strike missions, and later to maintain a blockade of Iran’s ports.
With the threat of Iranian attacks at other ports in the region, the Pentagon looked to a base under British command on the island of Diego Garcia as its supply hub, which is south of the Maldives and roughly 2,200 miles from where two aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating in the Gulf of Oman.
The loss of the hub in Bahrain has contributed to a host of reported problems on carriers supporting operations against Iran, as Democratic senators raise concerns about the Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and their nearly nine-month deployment.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the reported problems included shortages of basic supplies and the deteriorating mental health of its crew members.
On Friday at a military air base in Maryland, Mr. Trump dismissed those concerns. “That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another, very similar, ship,” he said.
The Lincoln’s replacement is the Japan-based carrier U.S.S. George Washington, which earlier this week was heading west through the Strait of Malacca in Indonesian waters en route to the Middle East.
Another carrier, the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, has been operating in the Middle East for months since deploying from Norfolk on March 31….
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