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KnockKnockGreenpeace's avatar

Wow, Jeff, how did you put everything Trump doesn't know in a single article???

Robert Lastick's avatar

This is just "the tip of the iceberg" of what T. Dump has no clue about.

Terri Pierce's avatar

I was just thinking today about all of things that Trump doesn't understand - the Constitution, geography, world cultures and SUPPLY CHAINS!

He's so ignorant.

Michelle Jordan's avatar

The pharmaceuticals affected aren’t just antibiotics and vaccines but also medications used to prevent rejection in organ transplant patients. Even some raw materials used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals may affect companies in the United States.

Robert Lastick's avatar

Yet, as of this writing, we still allow Americas answer to Agent Orange to occupy the oval office and continue to reign murder and havoc on our country that he has mutated from a democracy to an Authoritarian state!

It is proof POSITIVE to me that our government is badly broken.

BADLY BROKEN!

Merlin Dorfman's avatar

Ultimately we have to do something about not just Hormuz but the many other global chokepoints (Red Sea, Malacca, ...).

Steve 218's avatar

The only error is in the headline. We are already paying for this illegal and unconstitutional war, and the longer it lasts, the more it will hurt the economy, from the kitchen table to global. Trump, of course, doesn't care - as usual, he's doing it all with other people's money; ours.

Heidi Menocal's avatar

I had no idea that so many of our products rely on the strait being open.

Wendy horgan's avatar

Not impressed by the proper previous planning by companies who made themselves vulnerable to a supply of raw materials transported from the tinderbox Middle East.

Maybe they should have paid more attention to the clear signals from Saudi Arabia and Israel who were itching for war with Iran - and who have now caused global economic harm not only to Americans but to countries worldwide who had no part in this war.

Civilians - the last to be considered in war and the first to be hurt.

Jason's avatar

I see a pattern in The Contrarian- lots of discussions about the impacts to the US from this war , especially economic impacts.

Very few discussions about the thousands of civilians killed, the tens of thousands displaced, the massive destruction of homes, health care facilities, schools...not to mention barely a single word about Israel's massacres and annexation in Lebanon.

I guess I am one of those weird people that values Iranian lives more than however much Americans pay for gas.

Wendy horgan's avatar

Not weird. Human in the best sense.

Thank you.

Pat Jones Garcia's avatar

Yep, most of us had not known what all to consider in war beyond lives, destruction, military components, etc.