“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, who is strongly opposed to the idea of Iran charging ships a toll to pass through the strait.
“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he said.
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.
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.
Oh good. Nazi pirates. How did we end up with a real life plot more stupid than Water World?
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.
Wasn’t Iran already doing that before and wasn’t the main goal to open it up again?
Yeah but if they say it this way it sounds like they’re in control of the situation
Art of the idiot
Is it my imagination, or is that stretch of water and the water surrounding it not US territory, thus making what he wants to do (interdict) kind of … piracy?
Blockading is considered an act of war
Isn’t that… piracy? Not USAs waters, not USAs petrol…
Hasn’t stopped them from stealing oil from Venezuela and Cuba
Sure it hasn’t. But now they are ruining the pockets of the whole world.
Expect it to continue because he isn’t going to stop while he has power.
Our only hope is that Europe and China get tired of the crybaby and begin to do something for real, I guess.
Yeah. It’s obvious the Americans won’t do anything.
those people being rounded up and sent off to camps where they’re disappearing? how dare they be rounded up and disappear instead of dying at the problem for us.
No I mean the 350+ million other Americans who continue going to work every day to keep the corrupt fascist machine running.
He cant blockade something controlled by someone else who already shut it.
“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”
Surely this time people will stop talking about the Epstein files…
Boy it turns out that George Lucas sure was right about the importance of blockading a trade route
What’s next: America blowing up its own bases in the Middle East? Killing its own soldiers? Crashing its own planes?
I think he’s just pissed off that Iran is letting Chinese ships thorough. So now the question is whether Trump is stupid and deranged enough to attack any Chinese ships that ignore this illegal blockade, which would probably kick off World War 3 in earnest.
If it broke out in WW3 then I think most of the world’s public support would be behind China. The US has always been a hostile bully but Americans generally kept it contained to poorer countries that didn’t have as much of a voice. Now though…
Open the fucking strait you crazy bastard!
He wants the money, that Iran wasn’t charging before he invaded, for himself is as near I can figure. Master negotiator with a grand plan.
