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.
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 I thought that was an outdated legal principle, but now I’m wondering if its not and this is some galaxy brain “look it’s fucking blockaded for real now, do your payouts now because now this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.