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President Trump has been using Truth Social to telegraph his war plans.

One of them is a possible attack on Karg Island.

Phil Stewart, chief national security correspondent from Reuters, calls the island Iran's economic jugular.

About 90 percent of Iran's oil is exported through CARG.

And so blowing it up would be a very big deal.

And Trump is reportedly considering something else that would be a bigger deal.

If the U.S.

were to deploy troops to Karg Island, how big of a deal would that be?

So if U.S.

forces were to deploy to this island, we should not assume that Iran would throw its hands up and say, OK, guys, Iran would fight back.

All right.

So we actually don't know what the president's plans are with respect to Karg Island.

But we are speaking on Monday morning.

You and I are.

And this morning, Trump posted on Truth Social, the U.S.

I mean, that is as that seems like as explicit a threat as one can make.