Trump tells The Post the war against Iran won't last much longer -- Strait of Hormuz will reopen automatically after US exit
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... President Trump told The Post on Tuesday that he believes the Iran war is likely to end soon and that other nations can reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves -- after he posted to social media a video of huge explosions near Isfahan that he said hit "a lot of stuff."
"We're not going to be there too much longer. We're obliterating the s--t out of them right now, it's a total obliteration," the president said in a phone interview.
"But we won't have to be there much longer -- but we have more work to do in terms of killing their offensive, whatever offensive capability they have left." ...
Trump said that other countries can sort out the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed for 31 days, causing global energy prices to soar.
"Well, I think it'll automatically open, but my attitude is, I've obliterated the country. ...," he said ...
Pressed on a Wall Street Journal report that said he was willing to end the war without reopening the strait, Trump said: "I don't think about it, to be honest. ...
Kharg, kharg, kharg, yeah lets go capture and defend a postage stamp with oil tanks.
Lets definitely not go to the island that dominates the gulf's chokepoint, has runways, breakwaters, stormable beaches, allows us to drastically reduce troop density from missile and drone attacks, forward deploys C-RAMS and interceptors, has a short naval ferry range for reinforcement, and has a central hill range to hide on the reverse slope of...