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Pretty sure what Trump is opposed to is him not getting a cut of the toll.
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.
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.
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?
Iran was allowing some ships through. The logic is that if it’s closed to the US it must be closed to everyone (it was not before).
Do I think this is a good move? No. Do I think Trump and Hegseth have three brain cells between them? No.
But it also isn’t hard to understand their angle here. It’s not better for anyone. But the idea is to make it worse for Iran than the previous phase, where they had control of the strait.
Gonna be a hard sell to the rest of the world who is largely able to negotiate passage with Iran. US navy is gonna hijack ships enroute from the strait to China?
I agree. A US blockade of Hormuz was actually always a reserve strategy to put a chokehold on China if they invade Taiwan. Now we’re just playing that card for no fucking reason at all. This administration is dumb as fuck and I can’t believe there isn’t even anyone in the military who can stop them. I guess that’s what we see with Hegseth’s long line of dismissals.
China is definitely not going to accept such a turn of events without response. I hope they give Iran some nukes.
The US has worked steadily to make Iranian nukes absolutely inevitable.
I get the logic. But it's still really dumb.
Oh good. Nazi pirates. How did we end up with a real life plot more stupid than Water World?
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?
What I don't get is how are they going to prove that the ships paid toll? Especially if they are paid in crypto.
Oh, who am I fooling. They'll just harass anything coming through. Or maybe not. Maybe depending on which flag the ship flies.
They'll just stop any ship not coming to or from the US. Just like how ICE abducts everyone who isn't white enough, citizen or not.
Illegal toll? Who's laws govern the strait that make these tolls illegal?
International law says that any toll is illegal.
Except if it is paid to the emperor without clothes...
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.
My vocab is diminished because I don’t use slurs? That sounds like an incredible trade off. I think I will keep it up.
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.
It’s just not necessary to use slurs. That’s all.
i'm torn. we shame them away from using this one, they'll just move onto the next. it's not the meaning behind the word that they like, it's the fact that it's a slur. hence the euphemism treadmill.
That still doesn’t mean that we need to use it.
Also, we absolutely should shame these people. Let them move onto the next one. We will shame them for that too. Bigots don’t get to have things.
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.