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China won the trade war.
So you impose punitive tariffs to which China responds by cutting off your supply of rare earths.
Dang!
You cannot compete in trade or with tariffs and so now out of desperation and arrogance risk showing you cannot triumph via war either . . . you invade Chinas energy supply partners to show the petrodollar is still king.
But in Iran you have hit a snag...just as The British Empire finally lost monetary hegemony via the Suez canal conflict with Egypt, (where USA refused to support the UK) your petrodollar demise looks likely to be triggered in the Strait of Hormuz.
Dang!
A sad and declining empire exposed for what it is.
You have run out of Interceptors and cannot make any more because China has cut supply of refined rare earths. Meanwhile Russia is enjoying great returns and rumbling towards Poland.
Defeat is humbling - make America humble again.
Some semblance of dignity may eventually to USA, given time...probably several generations, or centuries.
Dang!

Scoreboard.

Military casualties: 15 to 3,375
Economic damage: $12 billion to $300 billion.

Where's the snag? We haven't even hit the bridges yet.

We're not stopping at your suppliers.

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You have succeeded in installing a much more reactionary hardline regime.
Nobody would blame them if they build nukes now.
The only thing you seem to understand is brute force.
The world is watching the Zionist-US sponsored war crimes.
You have no Interceptor missiles yet!
TACO!

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The only thing you seem to understand is brute force.

Lol 42,000 unarmed protesters.

The world is watching

Yeah PRC citizens are going to be watching gas prices go up. But I'm sure the vast majority will patriotically defend the ruling regime that has been so kind to them over the years. Maybe New Zealand will step up and help them fight to end America's war crimes. Maybe the gulf states will embargo the US to protect Iran. Europe might send a fleet to stop us from moving on Cuba. Or the Canadian special forces could rescue Maduro from prison.

Or we just bomb the regime again and you do nothing.

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New Zealand and all the world is looking on aghast at Trump aiding and abetting the Zionists Greater israel Project genocides and war crimes.

We just want free trade, civility, sanity and peaceful co-existence!

We are not afraid of free trade- we enjoy a balanced and very profitable trade relationship with China...and potentially with Iran too if you would stop endlessly obstructing our ability to trade with whom we choose and have mutually beneficial trade potential.

Anyway you don't have any Interceptor missiles left and any aggression now will be met by the sinking of your aircraft carriers and military bases across the Middle East.
Go on try it.
TACO!

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We just want free trade, civility, sanity and peaceful co-existence!

Oh please. As though there's anything sane about killing 42,000 unarmed protesters. Those are the people who wanted civility and free trade. And they're dead. There's nothing left to negotiate.

There can be no peaceful co-existence with an illegal communist revolution. Your attempts to divide China are doomed to fail and your separatist interregnum will face the judgment of history. Good job getting the high score of all genocidal manias. Fun's over.

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How many died in the US civil war?
What were you fighting about? The right to own slaves!

Nations have internal divisions and sort them out.
Nothing new.

A small minority of Iranians wanted to bow to decades of US bullying and end up forever subservient to US imperialism.
The vast majority of Iranians don't want that.

Ditto China.

These are proud and ancient civilisations who strongly resist US imperialist bullying.
Good on them!

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Yeah, and the PRC is the Confederacy.

The vast majority of Iranians don't want that.

Since everyone who wanted free trade with the US was already killed, sure.

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Was everyone that wanted to continue slavery in the US killed?

Doesn't look like it...

There is no such thing as 'free trade with the US'.

The US obstructs free trade globally . . . because it cannot compete on fair and equal terms.

Now USA has run out of Interceptors.

What you gonna do?