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US president says Iran conflict ‘terminated’ despite stand-off in the Middle East as Congress consent deadline passes

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[-] mr_account@lemmy.world 85 points 3 weeks ago

It means he's making another statement to manipulate markets on Monday

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

Not this time!

I fixed it by putting in "sell" order for market open on Monday. Gotta pay for my kid's college tuition.

So ofc this will absolutely be the time the market goes down Monday AM. Make my pain your gain: buy put options

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 weeks ago

"Trump says..." so it means literally nothing.

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Naich@piefed.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

It means the same thing as all the other times he says something stupid: he's a senile fuckwit.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

Please. You diminish his life goals by failing to include "pedo" and "rapist"

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

... that the majority of us voters felt was super appropriate to take office a second time, no doubt due to the bang up job he did the first time.

[-] Paragone@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

Most of the heavy-lifting in voting against Harris seemed to come down to

  1. Biden fucked-over her opportunity to campaign
  2. the white-supremacist vote
  3. the male-supremacist vote
  4. her unflinching backing of Netanyahu, & his .. "special military operations" in other countries, Gaza, West-Bank, etc.

It wasn't voting for Trump, rather, it was voting against Harris, that put Trump in power, from what I can see.

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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's yet more gaslighting. "This isn't a war, that would be illegal."

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Paragone@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

I believe "special military operation" is the .. traditional .. term.

/s

[-] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 3 weeks ago

It means that he wasn't going to get an AUMF from Congress in his 60 day window, which is what I pretty much expected. Now it sounds like he's going to try to continue the blockade portion (i.e. not the bombing) but argue that imposing a blockade doesn't constitute deployment of troops, which I suspect isn't going to fly if it comes to court. But we'll see how the legal and political maneuvering plays out.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

if it comes to court

🤣

Cuba set the precedent over 65 years ago. It'll probably fly

[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot to include that if he starts bombing Iran again, then that's a "new, separate" war, not restarting the same old one.

Machiavellians gonna machiavelliate, right?

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago

it means hes calling it officially done then going to claim new action in the area is a new conflict and gets another 60 days.

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly lol, fucking joke of a country

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] plz1@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

In addition to Cuba, yes

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

no still iran but you see he stopped it so now its ended and its a new thing with iran and a new 60 days. this is how he thinks. you know. like a mother trumpin trumphole.

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

You mean half-time in a football match, where lran has played better than USA ???

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, it will work

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online -1 points 3 weeks ago

What will work ??🤔🤔🤔

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Trump keeping the war going by saying it's a new war

[-] newton@feddit.online 17 points 3 weeks ago

He lost 16 US bases in 8 country's, that's what it means

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online -2 points 3 weeks ago

But I have a deeper question. Why would the US maintain bases in other countries ?? What impact it has on the treasury ?? And how does it increase the national prestige ???

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Military force projection. To maintain an imperial hegemony, you need some kind of presence in the places you're looking to control. That control in turn can be used both for economic advantages (for the imperialist, mind you, not for the exploited) and to establish proxies as defense against other imperialists. The former benefits the treasury; the latter national security.

Both fuck over the other countries, but you can guess how much the imperialist powers care about that.

[-] MastKalandar@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, you're honest !!

[-] Solrac@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The cost of an empire, and its "freedoms"

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

I take it to mean that trump failed, lost, and made things worse for the world and his own country, so now he doesn't want to play anymore because he is being exposed as a big fat loser.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

tl;dr It means nothing, because he lies twice every time his mouth opens once eyeroll

[-] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

He learned a new word

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

It means the Pedo-in-Chief has fuck-all knowledge of how to do anything so he makes up shit that his sycophants will believe...

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't want to be asked about this failure again."

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

"Mission accomplished" but they couldn't get him onto the aircraft carrier

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's Friday. He normally pushes one narrative to lower stock prices on a Friday and then another early in the week to scare the market so prices rise.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[-] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing at all

[-] jwt@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

"It's being towed beyond the environment"

This is all for show. He's violating the constitution because he can. If the war went to the current dysfunctional congress for approval, it would be a mix of "anything for you" and "it's too late to stop now."

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