As for a backup plan if Iran refuses to reopen Hormuz, Trump insisted that he did not need one and claimed Iran already was “militarily defeated.”--Bible salesman Trump, April 2026

"England is beaten and it is only a question of time when she will admit her defeat. The Axis Powers are not concerned with how to win the war but how to rapidly... end the war which is already won".--Champagned salesman Ribbentrop, November 1940