Posted on 04/19/2026 7:59:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Okay. It's Friday.
Let's end on an absolutely hilarious note.
Emmanuel Macron.
This twee, tiny tyrant has spent the better part of two days LARPing as if he were someone from a country that meant something a long, long time ago, royally entertaining an equally ineffectual non-entity as himself, all while playing Age of Empires for the cameras at his fancy office.
With hugs, kisses, and much clasping of hands, the two main co-conspirators got together to try to take over the world, much as Pinky and the Brain used to do every Saturday.
Considering they would have as much success with world domination as the cartoon mice they resemble, the two settled for a shot at the Strait of Hormuz, since it seems Donald Trump was almost finished cleaning that waterway out of nasty characters and floating things that go BOOM! Almost safe enough for a European to stick a toe in the water.
Their posing for effect did not go unremarked.
Trump had announced the Iranians were going to hand over uranium and that the Strait was completely open, but the Iranians pulled one of their patented 'not so fasts' just as everyone rushed for the exits. Most ships hit the brakes and did 180s.
With one bold exception.
Captain Stubing and The Love Boat would not be denied, nor were they willing to wait on the French and British navies to arrive...whenever that might be.
These two are on the job, I'm just a little confused whose boats Starmer is going to borrow to keep up his end of the agreement.
And like the glory hounds they are, the two sniveling turncoats are planning on cutting out the country that's done all of the work, while ridding the world of the Iranian nuclear threat, and actually sending the mullahs' navy to the briny depths, never more to harass or harry travelers and shipping.
Of course, none of these craven Euro cowards can or would do a thing until it's 'safe' and the only country that can make the Strait 'safe' is, well, us.
Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are cutting Donald Trump out of plans to patrol the Strait of Hormuz once the war against Iran is over.
The two leaders are piecing together a coalition of mostly European countries in a similar alliance to the French and British-led “coalition of the willing” nations working on Ukraine.
The idea is to send mine-sweeping and other vessels to clear the shipping lane and give companies the confidence to use the strait once the fighting is finished.
And the two of them insist on sucking up to the Iranians in anything they do, which immediately reinstates Tehran's power over the Strait.
Geniuses.
...“The mission we are referring to could only be deployed once calm has been restored and hostilities have ceased,” Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, said.
He added that the coalition would coordinate with countries on the strait, including Iran, which could mean the mission would only go ahead with Tehran’s blessing.
There was a wrinkle thrown into the brilliant plan from a surprising quarter. Skeletor, also known as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, isn't a fan.
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Can we just get out of NATO?
Thanks to an add-on to some 2024 legislation, no.
Not without Deep State’s Congress approving.
I really would have preferred President Trump went after France than Iran.
The UK’s Royal Navy is a joke. They had trouble getting even one warship to sortie in defense of the British base at Cyprus. Pathetic.
But to be fair, the French Navy is quite a bit better.
No, no it’s not l.
Just a bunch of fat targets for the Islamists.
The EU Laurel and Hardy show. Some laughs for a Sunday afternoon.
Rule #1: No poofters!
Also rules 3,5, and 7.
There is no rule 6.
They know they don't have a real naval force to project, much less keep Iran from jamming up the straits. This is a political tripwire force to keep the US from projecting into the straits and the gulf and ripping Iran's ass again, in my not-so-expert opinion.
Trump would just ignore them, a democrat president wouldn't.
The Germans supposedly have 8 minesweepers for the hapless globalist nitwits in London and Paris to borrow...
BTW, is that French carrier still under tow?
That was my exact reaction, you and what navy?
Macron’s mouth is writing checks France can’t cash. What a pathetic little sh*t.
I think their long game is a global alliance financed by the Chinese and fueled by the nastiest countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, designed to cut out the US. A “multipolar world”. The weakness of the plan is that Europe has little to bring to the table, other than its fading legitimacy and shrinking population. And several billionaire socialists with delusions of grandeur.
well having a focus on the western hemisphere and its people would be really smart. North and South America could become a wonderful wealthy area.
I’m waiting to see when Argentina retakes the Falklands.
But their armed forces are likely worse than the UK and in no shape to do much.
It’ll be like playing “Capture the Flag”. All they have to do is to raise their flag but the time is not right now. But soon.
> I’m waiting to see when Argentina retakes the Falklands. <
That raises an interesting question. Today’s UK is not capable of sending even a small naval force to relieve the Falklands.
So would the US/Trump help the Brits?
I say we’d adhere to The Monroe Doctine and kick all the Euros out of our Hemisphere. Then we’ll take the British Virgin Islands.
Throw in the Caymans and Turks and Caicos islands too.
Right now, I would doubt that Trump would support the UK. Reagan’s relationship with Thatcher was 1,000% better than Trump and Starmer.
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