Trump To Cowardly Countries Complaining They Can't Get Their Oil Through the Strait of Hormuz: If You Want Your Oil, Send In Your Navy and Take It Yourselves, Tough-Guys

Is Trump shifting the Overton Window to suggest that whoever can control the Strait -- like America -- should control the Strait?

American Debunk @AmericanDebunk

This post by Trump is pre-framing what's to come. Read along and you'll start to see it too.

When Trump tells the UK to "go to the Strait and just TAKE IT," the surface read is that he's venting at allies who didn't show up.

But the deeper move is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore.

It's available real estate. It's takeable. Anyone with courage can have it.

That's a massive Overton Window shift delivered, in a tweet, as an insult to the UK.

A year ago "America controls the Strait of Hormuz" sounded like some twisted fantasy. Today Trump is telling Britain to go grab it themselves like it's a parking spot.

In a few weeks, Trump has normalized the concept of Western control over the Strait so thoroughly that full US seizure now looks like the modest option compared to what he's suggesting allies do on their own. This is intentional.

The persuasion mechanics here are priming plus pre-selling. Whatever the eventual deal includes (US Navy permanent presence, joint patrols, Iranian withdrawal from mining infrastructure) the public will accept it because Trump already told them the Strait is there for the taking. Your subconscious mind has already been primed to accept it.

This "psychological baseline" is going to influence Trump-Iran negotiations. Best believe it.

"The hard part is done" works the same way. He's managing public fatigue.

It translates to "we won, relax, this is cleanup".

This keeps approval from eroding while the Pakistan talks drag through April.

Trump isn't describing reality. He's installing it.

Say the Strait is takeable enough times and it becomes takeable in the public mind.

It's been 10 years of Trump and he still leaves me in awe with his persuasion.

And Trump is also shifting the Overton Window on the NATO alliance -- and I have shifted with him. An alliance is like a contract between nations; it either provides reciprocal advantage to both parties, or it's repudiated.

I used to worry that Europe would be taken over by Russia with NATO. Now I don't care if it is or isn't, and anyway, Europe is choosing Soviet Communism on its own without Russia tanks compelling it to.

And obviously, it is Islam conquering Europe, not Russia.

Note that last one is from the State Department's official account.

Did Trump manage to open the Strait of America?

The Dow shot up 900 points, which equates to forty fucking million Deutschmarks.

Gummi
@gummibear737

Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up

This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza

They create impossible standards in terms of:

-Zero Casualties
-Zero Economic Disruption
-Zero Uncertainty
-Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission
-Zero Collateral Damage

And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it....same script as Gaza...the bad guys have no agency and it's actually our fault

Day 32 of the Iran war:
-degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks
-the Supreme Leader is gone...and his replacement is s vegetable
-all the top leadership is gone...in fact, we don't even know who's in charge

Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism

And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralization propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click

This isn't responsible skepticism

It's weakness...

And you'll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out

This is madness

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:32 PM

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