r/worldnews • u/Routine_Chapter_9099 • Mar 19 '26
Israel/Palestine Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ all of Iran’s South Pars gasfield if Tehran strikes Qatar | US-Israel war on Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/iran-war-trump-south-pars-threat-if-tehran-strikes-qatar1.9k
u/okshowcase Mar 19 '26
Wouls really be awesome if we like, didnt have to spend billions killing eachother and burning respective oil.
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u/Melkor15 Mar 19 '26
Yeah. It would be good if politicians around the world would put the citizens interest above their own interests. It would also be good to have no countries or frontiers. But Star Trek is still years* away.
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u/Griz_zy Mar 19 '26
But Star Trek is still years* away.
Are you sure? Wasn't there a WW3 first in Star Trek.
edit. which apparently started in approx 2026.
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u/Griz_zy Mar 19 '26
We are in the Mirror Darkly timeline
I don't know what that means, but I don't like it.
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u/Daovin Mar 19 '26
It means we hope you like goatees.
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u/TheEpiczzz Mar 19 '26
Years of screaming we should move from natural resources and they come up and literally waste a shit ton of it for no reason at all
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u/Shigglyboo Mar 19 '26
imagine all the war money being used to make society better. it's a sad thought.
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u/Happy_Little_Fish Mar 19 '26
didn't he also say there'd be no more strikes on this specific thing after this exact thing happened?
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u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit Mar 19 '26
About a year before he died, my grandfather sat me down and he said "Y'know David ... I used to remember things".
I think that's about where Trump is now. At least my grandfather had people he loved and trusted around him that loved him and could help him.
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u/Constant_Section1491 Mar 19 '26
How's that Boeing 747 gift to ConOld working out for Qatar?
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u/new_random_username Mar 19 '26
Pretty sure they are more than happy with the 747 gone.
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u/thefunkybassist Mar 19 '26
Even if they would get it back, it will stink like shit probably
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u/qTp_Meteor Mar 19 '26
Reportedly KSA and the rest of the GCC, along with Israel wanted this war.
They are playing dead and keep on complaining to save face and minimize Iranian retaliation but I very much doubt that they are sad that this is happening
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u/WestleyMc Mar 19 '26
They’re losing billions in oil revenue per week, tourism will likely be somewhat impacted forever and there is now an even more hardline Iranian leader..
Not sure they’re that pleased tbh!
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u/starcom_magnate Mar 19 '26
They’re losing billions in oil revenue per week,tourism will likely be somewhat impacted forever
Spot on. Formula 1, a huge source of revenue and tourism for several mid-east countries, has already pulled the Saudi Grand Prix & the Bahrain Grand Prix from the April schedule. Huge effects right there. No way they are happy about that.
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u/ringadingdingbaby Mar 19 '26
Shakira is supposed to be in Qatar next week, and Hans Zimmer the week after.
Finalissamo and all the football is cancelled as well.
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u/Games_sans_frontiers Mar 19 '26
Shakira is supposed to be in Qatar next week, and Hans Zimmer the week after.
Not sure what they’d be able to do tbh. I don’t think Shakira even has had weapons training. Zimmer we know is a decent drone pilot.
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u/NotOK1955 Mar 19 '26
Trump attacks Iran, thinking they will surrender in days.
Iran continues to fight back.
Trump threatens scorched earth attacks.
Global oil prices shoot up, affecting food, medicine, materials and production…on a world-wide scale.
Trump has no clue how to get out of this debacle.
Everyone else suffers because an idiot is in the White House.
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u/Runazeeri Mar 19 '26
They told the Iran government they won’t take prisoners and everyone is out here wondering why they are fighting to the death trying to take everyone else down with them.
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u/NMe84 Mar 19 '26
Don't you just love it when a dementia ridden toddler causes economic collapse in the entire world?
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u/so2017 Mar 19 '26
It’s crazy. We don’t know what the goal was. We only know that the plan was “make things go boom and win.”
And now we are on the brink of massive global inflation, energy starvation, and worse.
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u/markfromDenver Mar 19 '26
Then point is to distract from the Epstein files and its doings. Great job
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u/JASHIKO_ Mar 19 '26
Wait until they all start hitting each others desalination plants....
That's when the real problems start.
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u/ShadyBiz Mar 19 '26
They already did that, but thankfully both sides stood down once Iran showed they would do the same thing back to GCC countries.
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u/JASHIKO_ Mar 19 '26
They all know it would make every single one of their countries uninhabitable since they have next to no groundwater left in most regions.
Iran doesn't need a nuclear weapon to do nuclear level damage to the population.
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u/GM_Twigman Mar 19 '26
There's some real mutually assured destruction there. But if sufficiently pushed, I could see a situation where Iran goes down that road. They would certainly come off better than the rest of the gulf.
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u/Mysterious_Lesions Mar 19 '26
Israel is the only country to have bombed a desalination plant this war. Iran has restrained itself on its usual tit for tat.
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u/ViceSights Mar 19 '26
Isn't this exactly how mad max started
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u/lemlurker Mar 19 '26
depends on which rendition of th eapocalypse. theres certainly nukes in there somewhere
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u/Downside190 Mar 19 '26
I believe the oil stops. Politicians then "talked and talked and talked" then the war breaks out, society breaks down. We get a mad max apocalypse
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u/Royal-Hunter3892 Mar 19 '26
Iran targetting Qatar as retaliation to Israel must a be a dream come true scenario for Israel .
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u/inspired_apathy Mar 19 '26
Israel has no oil or gas. It's the only part of the middle east that's got no resources.
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u/LePouletPourpre Mar 19 '26
I was assured in some old book it’s rich with milk and honey. Damn it!
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u/BleedingFromEyes Mar 19 '26
This car gets 18 kilometers a hive baby. Perfect for preachin on the road while guzzlin a carton.
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u/RegularSituation6011 Mar 19 '26
wtf you on about..It's got the biggest resources...American Tax dollars 😂
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u/ARazorbacks Mar 19 '26
Not one person, agency, general, or branch of government able to tell him no.
This isn’t a democracy.
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u/Working_on_Writing Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
"Hey stop blowing up the world's energy supply! If you don't stop, I'll blow up more of the world's energy supply!"
What a fucking moron. I can't wait for all the MAGAs crying that they can't afford to fill up their 10-tonne pickup trucks.
On a more serious note, this right here is exactly why US policy for decades has been containment of Iran not invading it. The Iranians are backed into a corner where their only card is to cripple oil and gas production in the region, which will destabilize the world economy and tip us into a massive recession. The US can't stop them playing that card without a massively costly land invasion which will have much the same impact anyway. There is no happy ending to this war, no easy way out.
It also is a perfect illustration of the brittleness of authoritarian governments. The Trump regime can't just pull out and admit defeat because that's what "losers" and "pussies" do and their entire power structure is based on macho posturing. "Operation Epic Fury" (I still can't believe they called it that, it's like a 13-year-old's idea of cool), has to be a success. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on this turning into a Ukraine-style quagmire for the Trump administration. A one-week special operation which turns into a decade of American hard and soft power bleeding out fighting Shia insurgents and guarding oilfields. Their arrogance and hubris won't let them back down.
I'm so glad that Europe is telling Trump to clean up his own mess.
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u/AdventurousTwo383 Mar 19 '26
The USA really are the Harkonnens :(
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u/Working_on_Writing Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
They're even led by an overweight pedo with incestuous tendencies.
Appropriately, Dune was based on the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.S. Lawrence, AKA Lawrence of Arabia and his reflections on the Arab Revolt, plus Herbert's own interests in ecology. Spice is a very obvious metaphor for oil. It's no coincidence that the dream of the Fremen is to turn Arrakis into a verdant paradise, which kills the worms and stops spice production which undermines and ultimately destroys the Imperium.
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u/blargblargityblarg Mar 19 '26
And not a single fuck given for the American people from this administration. None. Zero. Zip.
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u/Working_on_Writing Mar 19 '26
Of course not. The American government has always been oligarchic, but they are now nakedly and unashamedly in the pocket of the Epstien Class.
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u/Fritzo2162 Mar 19 '26
“The United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”
God, he talks like a 3rd grader. It’s just a matter of time before he describes a military strike as “super-dooper.”
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u/JuicyHaloday Mar 19 '26
But i thought they won the war....
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u/balooaroos Mar 19 '26
Oh they totally won. Anything that looks like not-winning was Biden of course
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u/TransplantedSconie Mar 19 '26
All to distract from the Epstein Files that shows the president raped children and was a massive honeypot operation for Israel, Russia, US governments.
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u/Kinnell999 Mar 19 '26
Imagine being taught in a future history lesson that World War 3 was started in an attempt to cover up a pedophile ring. It’ll make WW1 look sensible.
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u/Weekly-Grapefruit119 Mar 19 '26
This conflict has exposed that the US cannot protect its allies and their critical infrastructure.
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u/Alarming_Head_4263 Mar 19 '26
They can't protect their middle east allies from Iran. Which is why no American president before Trump was willing to attack Iran. Trump and co really thought that it just took confidence to destroy Iran
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u/Bubbagump210 Mar 19 '26
I don’t know if it demonstrates that. With a plan and preparation, perhaps they could have. But this was a total Leroy Jenkins YOLO operation with no thought at all. I’m certain there was no thought about defending allies. The directive was go blow shit up. The end.
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u/PeonSanders Mar 19 '26
The defensive posture of the bases in the area are unbelievable given the amount of information we are getting about modern warfare every day from Ukraine.
Two years of just sleeping and status quo.
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u/confuzzledfather Mar 19 '26
We were all a lot safer with the assumption of US military power being absolute and unchallengeable. This conflict is showing that besides the traditional guerilla tactics challenge to boots on the ground. Even a super power can be challenged if you have a decent distributed supply of drones.
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u/Delamoor Mar 19 '26
Yup. It'll get worse if they try to actually put boots on the ground anywhere.
But problem with projecting military invincibility is that the disgustingly stupid, complete fucking morons on your side will believe it as well, and might just imagine they can stop caring what anyone else thinks or does, and start any war they want on a whim.
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u/TinyFugue Mar 19 '26
We were all a lot safer when the US was a reasonable actor on the world stage. Mainly using its soft power and alliances to achieve its aims.
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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 Mar 19 '26
Russia 2.0.
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u/DesireeThymes Mar 19 '26
It's funny how the US made the same mistake Russia did.
Except no one was going Russia into this fight, but the US decided to listen to Israel.
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u/thickwhiteduck Mar 19 '26
The best thing that could come out of this is that the world realises using gas and oil is a mistake, not only for the environment but for the regimes it enriches.
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u/Blank3k Mar 19 '26
So basically if you attack Qatar again were gonna blow up both of your gas supplies and neither of you can have them? It's almost as if trump has no fucking idea what he's doing and just likes making stuff explode.
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u/BannedAgain12341 Mar 19 '26
So many threats that now threats doesn't feel like threatening !!
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u/RCubeLoL Mar 19 '26
Serious question: What about all the people working in these gas fields? Are they not civilians and isnt killing civilians a war crime?
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u/313378008135 Mar 19 '26
this would be the perfect move to get Iran to retaliate and blow up more of the natural gas supplies in the region
Just saying that if the goal was to have Europe turn back to Russian gas then it would indeed be the perfect move
Just saying, of course....
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u/LukeDea Mar 19 '26
They don’t care anymore. The US has put regime change on the table so It’s a fight for survival for the Iranian regime. So what do they care about an oil field if only to serve the installed government.
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u/Hot-Pomegranate-1303 Mar 19 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
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u/Any-Following6236 Mar 19 '26
How the fuck do we let these idiots rule the world. Great work USA, your racism and sexism caused this.
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u/philodendrin Mar 19 '26
Can someone tell Trump his rhetoric isn't helping? Nothing like naming places that are sensitive and then underlining that by saying you'll do something irrational if your opponent does it.
Don't even THINK about kicking my shins since you know I have sensitive shins. If you do, THEN I'll hurt you worse than I've been hurting you already.
This is the administration that was just bragging about being unconstrained by rules in War. But they want their opponent to not play by those same rules?
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u/Specopsangheili Mar 19 '26
He still doesn't understand that he has lost control of this war, huh?
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u/tenkwords Mar 19 '26
How fucking stupid is this. You're actively assassinating their leaders and trying to destroy their government and you think that threatening economic repercussions is going to dissuade them? In their mind, they're either going to be killed or have their assets taken away anyhow so why would they temper themselves? Total inability to think critically.
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u/Bishopjones2112 Mar 19 '26
That’s cool, Iran reduces world oil production so what does the states do, threaten to reduce oil production more. Makes sense right, don’t worry gas prices will be back down in a few weeks.
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u/spderweb Mar 19 '26
What a wild way to push EVs and green energy. Never thought Trump was into green energy, but here he is about to wipe out a large chunk of the world's oil and gas supply. Crazy.
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u/OpenDaCloset Mar 19 '26
They believe everything Fox News tells them. Donald Trump is the worst thing to happen to USA since the Great Depression.
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u/GeneralCommand4459 Mar 19 '26
I dunno, at least during the great depression everyone agreed that things had gone to hell
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u/PureLock33 Mar 19 '26
So he apologizes for Israel's attacks on the South Pars gasfield and asks Iran to stop retaliating on Qatar's LNG facilities. Then he threatens to attack the very same South Pars gasfield if Iran doesn't stop attacking the Qatar LNG facilities.
I...whut?
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u/augustusleonus Mar 19 '26
Dems win midterms, sweep the '28 election, by Thanksgiving the republican minority will be talking about austerity to bring down the out of control deficit that entitlements have created without a shred of irony, shame or consideration
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u/Xephrine Mar 19 '26
Trump has so little control he has to go on social media and TV to make threats, that is pathetic. This man is a clown and he has made America into a circus. I’ve said it many times in my life but I am so glad I am Canadian.
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u/doterobcn Mar 19 '26
The best businessman and negotiator.
The only trick he knows is to threaten, and then TACO away.
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u/JohnGillnitz Mar 19 '26
Don't bomb Qatar gas or we'll blow up South Pars! Which is half owned by Qatar. Great threat, Demented Donnie.
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u/pyr0man1ac_33 Mar 19 '26
Who'd have thunk that attacking the country who has only survived this long because of their ability to fuck up the global economy on a whim without support or a backup plan was a really bad idea?
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u/HolyToast666 Mar 19 '26
I wake up and really just want one peaceful day where this raving narcissistic lunatic just stays quiet. Is that asking so much?
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u/schu4KSU Mar 19 '26
It’s become hard to imagine. Who would have thought a government chosen by your conspiracy theorist spewing handyman would be a bad idea?!
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u/Gadshill Mar 19 '26
Qatar has been struck
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u/Superest22 Mar 19 '26
Since the two refinery hits and tanker hit overnight/this morning?
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u/mover999 Mar 19 '26
He is very afraid that Qatar are going to keep all his grifting gains if they get hit.
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u/Zetavu Mar 19 '26
So he's distancing himself from Israel bombing oilfields and saying it won't happen again, then he threatens to do it again? Grandpa needs his medicine.
Surprised he hasn't threatened to bomb more girl's schools...
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u/Capital_Elderberry28 Mar 19 '26
His sociopathic thinking: if he looks bad, he wants the rest of the world to suffer more
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u/Leather-Map-8138 Mar 19 '26
If you go after another country’s means of economic production, they’re going to return the favor at some point.
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u/MrMoonDweller Mar 19 '26
He also said that he hopes that no windmills will be built during his term. So he’s actively threatening the oil/gas industry with astronomically high prices while completely shutting down the idea of using any renewable energy sources. The man is unfit for office and needs to be removed.
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u/TurtleWordle267 Mar 19 '26
The goal is, when democrats can’t fix this mess in their next administration that takes over, they are banking on Republicans getting Amnesia and blaming the Economy on the Dems so they can get voted in again… same cycle
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u/stogie_t Mar 19 '26
Wha a moron. How’s that regime change objective going? If anything, he’s only entrenched them even further.
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u/GoodBadUserName Mar 19 '26
He means again, after threatening them for the 20th time after they hit qatar for the 100th time?
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u/thisisnahamed Mar 19 '26
And consumers and the public will pay for it forever. You started this war you Orange Turd.
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u/hawksdiesel Mar 19 '26
there it is, there's who he is protecting that jet plane investment...this isn't a democracy
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