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“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” said Trump
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I wonder if NATO will interfere now, and start an invasion against THE USA.
Lmao.
Lame-ass copycats.
So let me get this straight… Of Hormuz.
I’m a little surprised everyone is mostly agreeing that he’s doing this because he’s stupid. I mean yes, he’s a fucking idiot, but someone told him to start a blockade. And as we all know from the first one a week ago, it’s only gonna jack up prices on literally everything even more than they are right now.
It’s all a plan by the billionaire class that openly runs our country now to keep inflating prices so consumers don’t have anything.
Its mostly to jack up oil.
Trump is owned by Rosneft and OPEC
100% this. He didn’t come up with a solution to “open the strait!” as “don’t use the strait!” So it’s still closed? Because of feels? OK, but it being closed because you said so means it’s still fucking closed.
Who benefits from this long term? Other than just “people who just bought oil at $98 on Monday”?
Brilliant plan to reduce their own income.
Lol so let me get this straight. We went from a completely open and free strait, to a closed one, to one ran and toll, to a double blocked strait. We are up 200% blockage. Art of the deal.
Also Trump is going to starve out all of the middle east and Asia? He’ll be tacoing here soon. Otherwise WW3 is guaranteed because China and Russia are preparing to have their forces escort their materials through because Iran doesn’t have beef with them.
So now instead of zero blockades like we had two months ago, we have two blockades?
Art of the deal
In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.
This is good for oil stocks/oil prices going much higher… until TACO.
So Iran is Naboo
Owah brockade is a-perfectry regrow
“You’re not blocking the strait of Hormuz, I am. I dont even want your strait, anyways”
It’s literally high school bully level of pettiness and stupidity. And because it’s on a global scale, everyone suffers. smh.
From mediocre incompetents to outright villains.
Are they also going to block the ships that Iran and Japan agreed could pass through, for example? Are they really going to screw over a strategic ally like Japan just for…? You know what? Yeah, they definitely would.
maybe Japan shouldn’t have surprise attacked them on december 1941.
Japan only attacked the USA in 1941 because of an oil embargo by the USA
So japan could do the funniest thing rn
With what navy?
It’s 2026 sir. Give them a Radioshack and time. Power is projected now by soft power and of smart your population is. Sadly we are working with complete deck of cards over here.
See, the problem there is that there are no more Radioshacks…
To be fair, the 1941 attack didn’t use a navy…
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Yes it did. What do you think all those aircraft were launched from? They sure as Hell didn’t fly all the way from the Japanese mainland (or whatever the closest Japanese land-based airfield was at the time)! They didn’t have the range for it: aircraft with ocean-crossing range didn’t start showing up until the Jet Age, after the war.
I mean, yeah, but also they were allied with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy at the time. And pursuing their own expansionist ambitions in the Eastern hemisphere.
And then moved their main base from California to the middle of the ocean to serve as a juicy target.
They wanted nothing more than war.
The standard US answer to all countries that become economic competitors.
They didn’t even tell us they were going to
they did
That didn’t stop both countries from being allies for several decades, why would you bring that up now?
Japan asked trump why didn’t you tell us, your allies that you were going to do this to iran?
He said you didn’t tell me about pearl harbor before you struck why would I tell you guys before I did this?
And then all the asshole psychopaths in trumps press room laughed at Japan.
Implying that Japan was actually the US’s enemy.
orangeman brought it up himself not long ago while talking to JP PM
Trump brought it up out of the blue while talking to the Japanese PM a few weeks ago iirc
He saw then charging a toll and wanted to also charge a toll.
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
(Remember Iran says they have the strait closed as well.)
When a mother blockade and a father blockade love each other very much…
But why would they need to since according to the very true reports by CENTCOM their destroyers passed the Straight and back unchallenged.
He’s playing the stock market again
I hate these Maga Yanks so much.
American here. As do I.
