• Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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    Why would oil tanker crews (which are more than likely made up of non-americans) care about “showing some guts” just so some American gas guzzlers can have cheaper fuel?

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      The idea here is providing Trump public support for attacking Iran. He’s in the tank even with his own people, but if a bunch of sailors die he can gain support…I mean probably not but Fox isnt known For its nuance

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    Hey Brian, why don’t you use your own money to buy a tanker and go through the strait yourself? Show some guts Brian!

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    "Take massive financial risks to help Trump mitigate the cost he didn’t consider at all, of his dumb decision to go to war-not-war with Iran "

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    Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade who still has a job after saying we should kill the homeless and people with mental health issues (while his other co-hosts were talking about throwing them in prisons or mental institutions)?

    That Brian Kilmeade?

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    Trump is about to find out that ship owners won’t risk hundreds of millions per ship on an uninsurable voyage just to stroke his ego.

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      It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

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      Oddly, due to maritime law, it’s the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.

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      Alternatively wasn’t he floating some kind of mandatory insurance scheme? mandatory in the sense that the insurer can’t refuse. Sounds like a great time to liquidate some ageing stock for yhuge profits.

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        No. Reinsurance “scheme” lets an insurer transfer all risk. If US government is willing to pay the insurer $100M, then they will charge the ship $1M or $99M for the voyage, but keep $100M total. Brian Kilmede will not volunteer to be crew on the ships no matter the pay, either.

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          Should’ve involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius “submarine”. Missed our chance.

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      Oh it is insurable all right. You just have to pay what is called the “war premium”. I bet they wouldn’t like what comes through the strait anyway.

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    Number of captains who took his advice: 0

    The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.

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    What an absolute moron! I don’t know any other democracy that has such stupid people so regularly on TV.
    For fucks sake USA is a shithole country of the worst kind.

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        That’s true, clearly worse than we have here in Denmark. Of course we also have stupid people here, but they are generally not exposed broad and wide on TV.
        But UK is still no match for USA from what I have seen. But clearly it’s not a problem for a politician to be stupid and also be successful. Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss. Are all examples of that. It’s astounding that a known liar like Boris Johnson was allowed to lead UK to vote for Brexit.
        30 years ago we had a party leader Svend Auken that was caught in an outright lie. That cost him his political career.

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              Is this sarcastic?

              Peter Hummelgaard who said that “We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services”.

              And who eagerly keeps exposing the Danish population to the use of Palantir’s Gotham software by the police?

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                That is so stereotypical for anyone in his position. That’s not just him, I agree it’s a sad state of affairs, and I don’t know why this stupidity is so common. But that particular issue any other minister of justice would be more than 90% likely to have the same opinion, after they’ve been briefed by PET and FET or whatever cancer is behind it.

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                  I really don’t think everyone in this role would be bending the country 90 degrees for the USA to have their way with it.

                  Especially when you want to appear in any way strongly opposed to them having their way with your colony.

                  Also, he is the one who (barely) rewrote ChatControl proposal to be able to push it again during the Danish presidency of the EU, so he’s actually occasionally a risk for the whole Union.

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        Any examples? I’m in Ireland, and none in the UK would come close to the stupidity of some of the Americans in my opinion.

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        Goddam that speech about death and destruction raining on Iran from the sky!
        Those people are insane.

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    It would not even touch the sides. The master answers to their employer onshore, not some berk on a morning talkshow half way 'round the world. The only thing superseeding their office would be their duty, ie laws of the sea, like if the office told them not to veer off course to answer a distress call.