.@POTUS on opening the Strait of Hormuz: “It’s a simple military maneuver, it’s relatively safe, but you need a lot of help in the sense that you need ships, you need volume. NATO could help us but they so far haven’t had the courage to do so… it would be nice if the countries, including China, if the countries that use it… would get involved.”
.@POTUS on Operation Epic Fury: “We’ve knocked out [Iran’s] navy, their air force. We’ve knocked out their anti-aircraft. We’ve knocked out everything… From a military standpoint, they’re finished.”
REPORTER: Are you deploying additional troops to the region for deterrence or to optimize your operational capabilities?
@POTUS: “I would say this, that if I told you the answer to that question, my military people wouldn’t be very happy — but we have a lot of troops, we have unlimited ammunition, we have the greatest equipment in the world, and we are decimating Iran. It’s about time, and frankly, it should have been done long before me.”
