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.
“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.