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[–] 120 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

Suez crisis for Britain was about UN, US and USSR not approving UK, Israel and France's shenanigans in Egypt and threatened to make shit difficult for them. Brits found this untenable and that made them back off. That was the whole humiliation. UK, the once great empire not being able to act with impunity on the world stage, when a third tier country takes it's strategically important shit, without asking their allies nicely first.

Hormuz is literally US begging for help to win a war that they started, didn't have to start, and now can't win. On the face of it, this is so much worse than Suez.

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    [–] 78 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Damn the Dutch and Chinese leaving us on "read" LMAO

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  • [–] 69 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly surprised Canada rejected

    The US finally beat on them too much

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  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago

    Pleasant surprise from Australia.

    Low key wondering if our last federal election might in retrospect have unironically been "the most important election of your life."

    Now evict pine gap.

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  • [–] 66 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Estonia volunteered! Get in there champ!

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    [–] 57 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Do you think Trump regrets his tariff flex now?

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    actually wild how just 20 years ago literally every one of these countries would have jumped at the chance to do this with Iran, but they're all afraid of being hung out to dry now becuase alphamale chuds don't know how to do empire diplomacy

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    As my great chancellor said: "They didn't even ask us beforehand and said they would need no help". So now they are miffed. You know, in the old world, we still follow decorum. You ask beforehand or afterwards for clean up but not in the middle of your mess of a job. It's not that they don't want, it just looks too bad.

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    Trump asked allies to make a joint fleet to protect shipping in the Gulf, and almost all of them said no because that would be suicide.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago

    In the words of someone from the North East ~ Shan on

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago

    Do we have source for this?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What did Greenland say? Denmark?

    And I heard France told him to Fuck Off.

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