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British oil tankers seized by Iran
The Daily Telegraph ^

Posted on 07/19/2019 1:05:57 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan

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To: dp0622

Not spilling American blood in the Middle East because some British tub was allegedly captured seems like a swell idea to me. But I do expect the war mongers to crawl out of the woodwork when crockpots like Bolton throw dust into the air.


81 posted on 07/19/2019 3:05:42 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: OneVike

Well, the oil companies get rich, but since oil is an internationall traded commodity everyone else would have to pay higher prices so the only people who win are the the oil companies operating in places other than the middle east.


82 posted on 07/19/2019 3:08:07 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Iran is desperate. Keep squeezing their economy.”

And the Globalist Democrats, including front man Kerry, are desperately trying to get Trump into a big war. They are getting even more desperate, the closer the arrests are getting to big name Democrats.

IMO, the Iranians have been told to create trouble now, and they will be rewarded with huge plane loads of cash when the Democrats/Globalists retake control.


83 posted on 07/19/2019 3:09:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: OneVike

Jefferson didn’t solve the piracy problem, he merely mitigated it. It wasn’t until the French colonised North Africa that they stopped doing that crap. Maybe Somalia and a few other states need recolonising.


84 posted on 07/19/2019 3:10:43 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Options:

1) Do nothing
2) Nuke Tehran
3) Send a pallet of cash
4) Something in between #1 and #2 above


85 posted on 07/19/2019 3:12:21 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: JonPreston

“None of our business (but somewhere in the bowels of the State Dept. the demented John Bolton is laughing)”

In your mind when does it become our problem?


86 posted on 07/19/2019 3:21:21 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: JonPreston

AGREED.

If this was a stand alone incident.

But something else will happen.

But you’re right about Bolton. He’ll want a 500,000 troop invasion.

I want none.


87 posted on 07/19/2019 3:22:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“Sounds fair. Didn’t Britain just seize an Iranian ship off Gibraltar last week?”

Are you sure it was an Iranian tanker?


88 posted on 07/19/2019 3:22:57 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Kahuna

Exactly. Let THEM respond. NOT US.


89 posted on 07/19/2019 3:23:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: marron

Since piracy is commerce related the obvious retaliating should be commercial. Cutting off all Iranian banks from international banking networks and crashing the Iranian economy would be a good start.


90 posted on 07/19/2019 3:24:52 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Hulka

“Not fair by any measure.
Seized Iranian tanker was breaking sanctions and subject to action.
Brit ship was engaged in legitimate business”

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^


91 posted on 07/19/2019 3:25:25 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: tcrlaf

And the Globalist Democrats, including front man Kerry, are desperately trying to get Trump into a big war.


Kerry wants Trump to attack Iran? Yeah, no.


92 posted on 07/19/2019 3:26:21 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Red Badger

These are UK ships. Make THEM respond. IMHO. Sick of carrying their butts when they treat us like a redheaded stepchild, TBQH. Had a snoot full when I lived there.


93 posted on 07/19/2019 3:26:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Britain seized one of Iran's ships first. They left that part out. This is just a back door way to get President Trump in a war,
94 posted on 07/19/2019 3:27:26 PM PDT by sport
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To: Kahuna
The UK needs to respond with a big BOOM!

The Brits have no way to enforce their safe passage.
The Royal Navy now consists of what? 2 frigates? and possibly a functioning carrier?
All the defense budget has gone to welfare programs.

95 posted on 07/19/2019 3:28:35 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

BUT,,

Us American citizens will not feel the pinch at the pump.

We are self sufficient thanks to trumps deregulation’s and our superiority of having the largest reserves of oil in history.


96 posted on 07/19/2019 3:28:57 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Oil Object Insp

If you pay extra, you can even fire an RPG, ATGM or small antiship missile at a Somali pirate ship. Not kidding at all.


97 posted on 07/19/2019 3:29:34 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sam Gamgee

The Brits apparently seized an Iranian tanker at the direction of the US. That makes the Brit tankers an international issue.


98 posted on 07/19/2019 3:29:45 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Erik Latranyi

Options:

1) Do nothing
2) Nuke Tehran
3) Send a pallet of cash
4) Something in between #1 and #2 above


Option 5: Nuke the Iranian economy. That is the correct course of action I believe.


99 posted on 07/19/2019 3:30:57 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

But as a rule the Middle East did not become a problem until the liberals got the government too limit our ability to get our own oil.

Trump releived the problem and we are now self sufficient and we could let Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz and the world would have to come to us.

This would destroy every Muslim economy in the Middle East. Which would force them all to come with hat in hand begging us to get rid of the bully in Persia.

Thus, maybe Alexandra Trump would do what Alexander the Great did to Persia, Silence them for good.


100 posted on 07/19/2019 3:33:23 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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