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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm feeling for the Americans stuck in Chump's concierge war zone
as it sounds like they are being assisted with DOGE level efficiency.
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I'm feeling for the Americans stuck in Chump's concierge war zone (Original Post)
kairos12
22 hrs ago
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DURHAM D
(33,025 posts)1. Apparently they have provided a phone number to people
stuck in the Middle East to call for help. The message apparently tells them they are on their own.
I am ashamed to be an American.
Baitball Blogger
(52,117 posts)2. Can't wait for the media to interview them to learn what they feel
about Trump's triage way of evacuating them.
AloeVera
(4,149 posts)3. There are half a million Americans in the region.
That's a lot of people to get out with commercial flights. Are they even still running at full capacity?
Who knows how many millions of other nationalities?
And how many millions of Middle Eastern people? They can't hop on a flight.
Edited to add, per BBC:
Thousands of flights have been cancelled across the region, according to flight tracking service Flightradar24, with hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.