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Is it my imagination, or is that stretch of water and the water surrounding it not US territory, thus making what he wants to do (interdict) kind of … piracy?
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” said Trump, who is strongly opposed to the idea of Iran charging ships a toll to pass through the strait.
“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he said.
Pretty sure what Trump is opposed to is him not getting a cut of the toll.
This is truly an April Fools-level move.
The US is closing the Strait? The generals couldn’t open it, so Hegseth said, ‘Okay! I’ve got it! We declare that WE’RE closing it, NOT THEM!’
How … is this better?
Once again the whole world has to suffer because of Trump’s insatiable ego and greed, and his bottomless stupidity. May he be gone soon.
No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas
Does that mean they are gonna attack anyone that paid? Also when he starts charging does that mean they will destroy any ships right after they pay?
Illegal toll? Who’s laws govern the strait that make these tolls illegal?
He did previously say that as the “winners” of the war, the US was entitled to collect that toll, basically. So, yeah, I think you’re spot on.
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Lot’s of people avoid using the word retard. But that’s hard on some people because the loss of that word can decimate their whole vocabulary.
I support your freedom of expression; language is hard, and some people need verbal prognostics to make their point. It’s rude to pick on people just because of a diminished capacity.
By calling out the decline of Trumps cognitive abilities, I offended subset of people who should in my view never ever be called a “retard”?
I do apologise to anyone who still wants to identify as one.
One of his many word salads involved an offer to split the tolls between us and Iran, so yeah, that’s what he wants. The dummy simply didn’t realize access to the strait was so valuable until after the bombs started dropping.
Isn’t that… piracy? Not USAs waters, not USAs petrol…
Hasn’t stopped them from stealing oil from Venezuela and Cuba
Sure it hasn’t. But now they are ruining the pockets of the whole world.
no. it’s invasion and war.
Yes , but now they are the ones makin everyone’s petrol mucho more expensive, if it even gets there.
Sure sounds like it’s more piracy to me.
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,”
Or what?
Lol is that a sea mine XD
The American military are legitimate targets.
Wasn’t Iran already doing that before and wasn’t the main goal to open it up again?
Yeah but if they say it this way it sounds like they’re in control of the situation
The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.
…You understand Iran has more revenue streams and can overland oil and materials to china… right?
The fact that it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean that isn’t the reason
Possibly but that would mean the trump admin (and by extension congress) still are operating on less intelligence than anyone with an internet connection.
This is not news
Are the pipelines still operational?
The idea being to kill off Iran’s leverage, which is control of the Strait.
He cant blockade something controlled by someone else who already shut it.
“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”
He wants the money, that Iran wasn’t charging before he invaded, for himself is as near I can figure. Master negotiator with a grand plan.
OpenClose the STRAIT!-Trump!
And the twist in the plot is that Iran unblocks the Strait of Hormuz.
Jesus Christ. I certainly didn’t have this on my rapidly flailing bingo card of the US punching itself in the face.
This is a terrifyingly ridiculous timeline we find ourselves in.
That’s bound to increase the price of oil.
this goes back to are trumps decisions based on some long odd bets on the totally not maninpualted gambling markets.
