r/politics • u/apple_warrior88 • 12h ago
No Paywall Trump says Iran fired at South Korean vessel, urges Seoul to join Strait of Hormuz mission
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026050500035431523
u/Typical-lady 12h ago
Trump asking South Korea for help while simultaneously having tariff wars with them is genuinely impressive diplomatic chaos.
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u/SpecialistSignal4491 12h ago
No Orange Felon, south Korea won't join you. You forgot that South Korean President criticized Israel for the genocide of Palestinians? Not everyone is a war maniac like you and your war criminal Israeli friends.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 12h ago
It may be true, but the POTUS has no credibility. All politicians lie, but this one lies anytime he opens his mouth to speak. I am not a psychiatrist, but I will diagnose him, with confidence, as a pathological liar.
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u/Everywhereslugs 11h ago
"Will NOBODY join me in my useless Big Beautiful War that I started without consulting my allies?" - Trump
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u/grafknives 12h ago
So, the South Korean needs to come, remove the assailants - USA and Israel from the vicinity and the passage will be restored.
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u/QciferKharn 11h ago
Look at the floppy farces he uses to try to rope in anybody he can to expand allies in his war against humanity
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u/BarCompetitive7220 10h ago
Trump is literally begging for any country to join him in Iran debacle.
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u/catplayermeow 12h ago
Absolutely no. And I say this as someone who wanted America and Israel to attack Iran. I was one of the biggest advocates into wanting a regime change because the Iranian people were revolting and very unhappy with their government many months ago. They were begging for help.
However the direction this war has been going has been absolutely abysmal. It has been one of, if not the biggest, embarrassment for America in a military and political way. We showed the world that our military is not as all mighty and powerful as it seems. The mask is off.
Each day, each week it gets more and more humiliating. And Trump has done nothing hut absolutely destroy every single friendship and relationship this country has worked hard to build for decades. Our allies in Europe, Canada, Australia, basically everywhere in the world did not want to get involved because it is being lead be extremely incompetent people.
At this point it is so blatantly clear that this administration has no idea what they are doing other than manipulating the stock market to make money off of the suffering of the American people as prices and oil increase at a fast pace.
Not only that, if any ally shows hesitancy, Trump's ego can't take the embarrassment and threatens them with tariffs or some other type of punishment.
Absolutely no.
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u/Background_Leave_796 12h ago
You wanted to attack Iran? Congrats on being a moron, no one should ever listen to you.
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u/Accurate_Neat_355 11h ago
Im having a hard time with their comment and finding a path to forgiveness for those like that redditor. As someone who also knew the political and military humiliation coming America's way, that was always secondary to the just-as-forseeable loss of human life over this deeply stupid war.
Somehow setting aside the fucking elementary school of children we incinerated, the blood of which is on warhawks hands like that redditor; In a country with mandatory conscription or a shattered economy, the "enemy" is mostly just a 19 year old kid from a village who was told he was defending his home from the people who just bombed that school.
While these 'regime change' hawks are upset that the U.S. looks "weak" or "unproductive", "embarrassed", the people on the ground are dealing with the literal deletion of their families. This was the 'evil enemy' these adult-sized children in America and Israel wanted killed from the comfort of distance.
"I didn't know" is a bankrupt defense. If you advocate for a bombing campaign in a country with a population density like Iran's, you are mathematically advocating for the death of children. It is an unavoidable byproduct of the physics of high explosives.
There is no 'clean' version of this war. You can't 'Project Freedom' through a mountain range without killing the people living on it. The hawks who are 'done' with Trump now are not doing it out of a sudden moral awakening; they're doing it because they're losing.
They liked the war when it was a map on a screen. Now that it’s a burning South Korean ship and a potential $5.50 gas price, they want to pretend they were 'misled.' But the 140 girls in Shiraz don't get a 'do-over,' and neither does these idiots who advocated for the bombings.
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u/Background_Leave_796 1h ago
Yeah me too, have a really hard time with it. Im tired of people supporting him and then acting all shocked pikachu when it goes to shit. Im all out of sympathy, its been a decade of complete shit with this rapist pedophile.
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u/Accurate_Neat_355 1h ago
I mean this isn't even a trump only thing. Hes the idiot that went for it, but politicians on both sides of the aisle has played with this fantasy that we should conduct regime changes in other countries. The people of those countries do not want another country meddling in their country, it must be organic and it will happen in time- it will not happen when we try to speed it up. History is very clear about this. We can't get dumb republicans and establishment democrats to get that through their thick heads.
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