Trump says US to 'blockade' Strait of Hormuz after talks failed over Iran's nuclear ambitions
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Washington says it "will not impede" vessels in the Strait of Hormuz travelling to and from ports of other countries.

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.

  • nasezero [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    The best and most strategic choice for the US was to never bomb Iran. Having failed that, the absolute best and most rational choice for the US is now to accept their current position and withdraw from West Asia entirely. The worst case scenario (still speaking strategically for the US, specifically) we thought would be the US doubling-down and bombing enough Iranian infrastructure which would prompt Iran to retaliate and blow up remaining GCC infrastructure, which would most people agreed would plunge the global economy into a terrible depression and cause widespread famine. But this scenario seems equally as likely to do that, assuming it goes on for long enough, without Iran having to have their infrastructure bombed, plus all the additional political fallout from it being so directly imposed by the US. And even if it doesn’t last (kinda doubt it will), it still just looks like terrible and desperate behavior coming from the US.

    I had this thought when the US first attacked Iran, that we really truly cannot underestimate how incompetent these clowns are, but even I keep being surprised at how profoundly fucking smooth these peoples brains are. We must reach new depths with our predictions; I’m now all in the US canceling elections and doing a draft with ICE enforcement that ends up causing the collapse of the state by 2028.