US President Donald Trump says that the US is going to start “BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz”.
In a lengthy new post on Truth Social, he says that “the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not”.
He says that “at some point” an agreement on free passage will be reached, but “Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them.”
In the same post Trump also says that he’s “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran”, and that the US Navy is going to start " destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits".
“No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he says, adding “any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!”
“The Blockade will begin shortly,” he says.
So is the US Navy going to attack chinese tankers?
AFAIK know the Chinese aren’t paying tolls. That’s the benefits of being homies.
Fuck France haha
99% chance this is just Trump saying shit, but please send a carrier into the strait to demine it.
now i get why they clogged the toilets on that aircraft carrier, it was practice for blocking the strait and for eating shit
The best and most strategic choice for the US was to never bomb Iran. Having failed that, the absolute best and most rational choice for the US is now to accept their current position and withdraw from West Asia entirely. The worst case scenario (still speaking strategically for the US, specifically) we thought would be the US doubling-down and bombing enough Iranian infrastructure which would prompt Iran to retaliate and blow up remaining GCC infrastructure, which would most people agreed would plunge the global economy into a terrible depression and cause widespread famine. But this scenario seems equally as likely to do that, assuming it goes on for long enough, without Iran having to have their infrastructure bombed, plus all the additional political fallout from it being so directly imposed by the US. And even if it doesn’t last (kinda doubt it will), it still just looks like terrible and desperate behavior coming from the US.
I had this thought when the US first attacked Iran, that we really truly cannot underestimate how incompetent these clowns are, but even I keep being surprised at how profoundly fucking smooth these peoples brains are. We must reach new depths with our predictions; I’m now all in the US canceling elections and doing a draft with ICE enforcement that ends up causing the collapse of the state by 2028.
Like trying to guess the most wrong answer you’ll get to a question and some student just eating the test.
Somebody help that poor man!
please let a carrier be sunk, that would be amazingimages of distressed crying US navy soldiers being pulled out of the water by IRGC fastboats please
this is all i’ve been asking for… why is it so much to ask for?
Wow Mr President this is so smart, don’t chicken out like a woke liberal. Do it so much yes sir
Sometimes I wonder if the fall of capitalism will be easier than we thought
Capitalists are selling rope already tied as a noose.
And they’re demonstrating the ropes’ effectiveness by jumping in the noose, before the sale has even closed.
If he was smart he would have gotten out in front with this on February 27th.
Now he is stuck giving Iran the “highest form of flattery”.
“If you can’t beat em, join em” ahh Trump
Wow, Richard Medhurst really called it. The US is in it’s pirate phase.
Trump keeps hearing live action Luffy say he’ll be the king of the pirates and it’s makin him so angry
oh no, he’s in his Kulinski phase now. also how did his accent go so hard british suddenly?
5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S2CWhQJIgg no discernable bri’ish accent at all.
Performative Bri’ishness
holy hell… i actually clicked my link again and just skipped forward to a random time and hit this: https://youtu.be/6S2CWhQJIgg?t=151 lmfao… how absolutely bizarre
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Now that he has destroyed all the targets and eliminated Iran’s water boats, he needs a new challenge
“we will re-open the strait of hormuz by adding an even bigger blockade to it and doing piracy to everyone.” - Strategic Genius
seems absolutely guaranteed to ratchet up tensions with every country on the planet while creating the ideal conditions for recruiting every other country to join any kind of anti-US led coalition. not to mention, it seems likely to make the looming “stroke” of global energy markets turn into a major seizure by inducing even more panic and uncertainty, everywhere.
the people who come up with this crap cannot grasp the basic idea of multi-polar world, otherwise they wouldn’t be taking the clumsiest steps to rapidly accelerate its development. the republic of iran has exposed the weakness of the US by fighting back once cornered and refusing to accept the US’ perennially mendacious, tactical “diplomacy”. it’s absolutely the worst time to threaten everyone on earth simultaneously.
It might be the worst strategic decision I can think of since Hitler drawing the US and USSR into the war. He’s even declaring war on his own base during what looks like a bad midterm election. I didn’t even think they’d do a counter-blockade because it’s stupid in every single way a decision could be. JDPON Don is going to win the PLA’s highest medals for their victory against the US in a war they aren’t fighting.
Ready for dems to eat shit in the midterms because they refuse to take a firm stance on ending the war?
We can no longer even lathe things, because things are getting too stupid to lathe.
can a geopolitics understander explain whether iran’s proximity to turkey and russia (via the caspian sea) can help them absorb the effects on trade from the blockade
Hopefully they can also explain why maritime insurance companies won’t cover ships being escorted and won’t cover ships going through freely, but they will cover ships being blockaded by two navies for two contradictory goals. And if they fulfill either goal of either navy blockading them, one side will blow them up and the other is the Pirate Empire. To me that seems more risky for the insurance companies underwriting global trade.
Fuck, that’s reminding me of how a blockade was held as only being “legal” if it was effective and consistently enforced, for the purposes of things like insurance payouts or lawsuits over seized vessels. I thought that was an outdated legal principle, but now I’m wondering if its not and this is some galaxy brain “look it’s fucking blockaded for real now, do your payouts now because now this is a blockade, which is covered and legal” grift.
