{"id":38008,"date":"2020-04-22T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=38008"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:36:15","slug":"trump-gives-navy-green-light-to-destroy-iranian-gunboats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/trump-gives-navy-green-light-to-destroy-iranian-gunboats\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gives Navy Green Light to Destroy Iranian Gunboats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iranian gunboats have been increasingly harassing US vessels in the Gulf, trying to provoke a conflict and they&#8217;ve gotten their wish as Pres Trump has given the US Navy the green light to fire on them!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VmyxxhZhlxY?start=4687&#038;end=4768\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nI have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1252932181447630848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nSleepy Joe thought this was OK. Not me! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VgIlA4fJKF\">https:\/\/t.co\/VgIlA4fJKF<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1252960830255173634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTbUvppxg_o\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dn8Y5KXuQV0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTake note of the large ship they approach, it has two Apache gunships on deck. They alone could probably take out a majority of these annoying little fast boats the IRGCN employs. Absolutely insane for Iran to provoke the US with the amount of firepower &#8220;we&#8221; possess.<\/p>\n<p>This is a long overdue order we never would have seen from any other President, except for Pres Reagan. Let&#8217;s be honest obama emboldened the Iranians by cowering to them countless times especially when they detained several sailors in 2016, so yes it&#8217;s his fault it has come to this.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pHfV9h7Z42E\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iran needs to be put in their place and this may be step one in that process. No one wants war, but Iran. What they don&#8217;t understand is Pres Trump isn&#8217;t like any other US President, he will unleash the full might of the US military on them while taking every measure to minimize US casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Iranian gunboats have been increasingly harassing US vessels in the Gulf, trying to provoke a conflict and they&#8217;ve gotten their wish as Pres Trump has given the US Navy the green light to fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[42757,13566,248],"tags":[21849,47153,47151,47152,20968,47150],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Trump-Gives-Navy-Green-Light-to-Destroy-Iranian-Gunboats.jpg?fit=671%2C388","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38030,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008\/revisions\/38030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}