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zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Defense Secy. Hegseth: "The Only Thing Prohibiting Transit in the Straits Right Now is Iran Shooting at Shipping"

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Defense Secy. Hegseth: "The Only Thing Prohibiting Transit in the Straits Right Now is Iran Shooting at Shipping"

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zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responding to a question about the Strait of Hormuz says that the only thing prohibiting transit is Iran shooting at shipping. He says it would be open if Iran doesn't do that. Hegseth says that's why destroying Iran's navy was a primary objective for the U.S. to prevent the interdiction of shipping, which Iran has used as leverage in the past. Hegseth goes on to say that the U.S is not going to allow the Strait to "remain contested or with a lack of flow of commercial goods" and that its working with international partners to "make sure energy flows."
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    Saving this thread so I can show it when any conservatives try to defend this administration.

    “The only thing preventing me from being competent is the fact that I am a moron”

    Edit: The

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    The only thing preventing Hegseth from being a genius is the fact he is an idiot.

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    “The only thing prohibiting access to the backyard is the hornets nest we kicked”

  • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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    The Only Thing Prohibiting Transit in the Straits Right now is the War Trump Started.

    FIFY

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Uhh, yeah

  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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    The only thing preventing me from marrying that girl is that she shoots at me whenever I approach.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      What you need is an armed escort. In a month. Then she’ll be all yours!

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        Once you get through enough armed escorts that there is a pile of bodies to hide behind, she’ll be all yours!

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      Didn’t you kill that girl’s dad a few days ago?

      • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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        The old man had it coming, he was a real piece of shit. I’m not sure what she’s not understanding, I think she’s got some real mental problems. I just worry about her, you know?

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    Didn’t anyone in Trump’s cabinet think that perhaps Iran would have used the Strait of Hormuz as a strategic tool? Or care to listen to the guy who did?

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    If only there was some way of predicting this would happen, we wouldn’t have done this! ;p

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      It’s almost as if they’d waited until… congress… had… authorised… the war, they wouldn’t be left holding the bag by themselves.

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    Well, he’s a quicker learner than I thought he’d be.

    It doesn’t quite get to the root cause, though, does it?

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    No shit, Sherlock!

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    Macron also said they won’t send war ships because they might get shot at.

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    Only that. Huh.

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    We attacked Florida and demanded that they don’t cut off traffic to Alabama through the Gulf of Mexico. Except it isn’t nearly that wide, it’s 35x smaller

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      I mean. We should probably build a wall around Florida.

      Republican goobers like catchy names. We could call it “America’s Cock Ring.”

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        You’d be surprised how popular that would be both in context and out.

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        build a wall around Florida.

        “So that wall is to keep it the hurricanes?”

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          “It’s for when the climate change causes shrinkage!” (to keep the swamp trolls out. when their swamps become lagoons)

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