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"we will re-open the strait of hormuz by adding an even bigger blockade to it and doing piracy to everyone." - Strategic Genius
seems absolutely guaranteed to ratchet up tensions with every country on the planet while creating the ideal conditions for recruiting every other country to join any kind of anti-US led coalition. not to mention, it seems likely to make the looming "stroke" of global energy markets turn into a major seizure by inducing even more panic and uncertainty, everywhere.
the people who come up with this crap cannot grasp the basic idea of multi-polar world, otherwise they wouldn't be taking the clumsiest steps to rapidly accelerate its development. the republic of iran has exposed the weakness of the US by fighting back once cornered and refusing to accept the US' perennially mendacious, tactical "diplomacy". it's absolutely the worst time to threaten everyone on earth simultaneously.
It might be the worst strategic decision I can think of since Hitler drawing the US and USSR into the war. He's even declaring war on his own base during what looks like a bad midterm election. I didn't even think they'd do a counter-blockade because it's stupid in every single way a decision could be. JDPON Don is going to win the PLA's highest medals for their victory against the US in a war they aren't fighting.
Ready for dems to eat shit in the midterms because they refuse to take a firm stance on ending the war?
We can no longer even lathe things, because things are getting too stupid to lathe.