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“I didn’t want to hit the pipes because, you know, years of work to put them together,” he added. “It’s dead militarily now, totally. Every military area … they’ve fled.”

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Trump said by phone Monday that “the oil prices will drop like a rock” as soon as the war is over.

When asked by PBS News when exactly that would be, Trump said, “Well, as soon as the war is over and it won’t … I don’t believe it will be long.”

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    as soon as the war is over

    So they’ve already given up pretending like they haven’t declared an illegal war?

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    No one involved in this wants those refineries to be damaged. Damaging them would be a sure fire way to make sure oil prices don’t drop once this is over. Iran will call this bluff.

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    So we’re at war with a country that has no military?

    We’re asking for NATO help to secure the Strait of Hormuz for a military that has all fled?

    I mean isn’t a war over when the opposing military completely dead?

    Where the hell is my lower gas prices because it just went up this morning.

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      No military and yet they just hit the US Embassy in Baghdad.

      Iran can poke and probe US defenses, time’s on their side. Look at Ukraine and Russia. Despite five years of attrition, both have greatly expanded their strike capabilities in the midst of a war. You can decentralize drone production and hide it underground very easily.

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      That’s because the President has no control over gas price changes. Even when he bombs the shit out of a small country.

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        This is incorrect as Orange man previously informed me that Biden was responsible for the price of gas.