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Iran offers Hormuz passage to countries expelling US, Israeli ambassadors (shafaq.com)

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago

Props, this is like an diplomatic BDS.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

soft power about to get hard if u know what i mean

edit: this is ambiguous i mean iran is about to flex what control over one of the world's most strategic straits means

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Saudi Arabia don't have Israeli ambassadors, only Bahrain and UAE.

[-] Thalion@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago

Half way there

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

the king fled bahrain yesterday; they misunderstood the assignment. lol

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

he knows what's coming, bahrain are about 80% shia muslim, the government was a puppet state and now that the jihad has started bahrain will have a change of powers

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I hope so.

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

That reads like a buy one get one deal to me rather than an added cost.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Felipe VI of Spain can (constitutionally) do the funniest thing right now.

That said, everyone on this planet needs to be building renewables, grid storage, bike lanes and railways ASAP to shake off oil dependency.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

seems like China's been ahead of the curve as usual

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

On this particular front Europe is doing OK as well, but it definitely needs to build more, faster, and now. And to do that it needs to build more ties with China. Honestly looking at the (lack of) EU response over the latest US war crimes I'm not holding my breath here.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, stronger ties with China is really the obvious way out for Europe. It's absolutely incredible to me that the EU is still trying to suck up to the US.

[-] LostAkkadian@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago

That would require Europeans to acknowledge the damaging role of U.S. Imperialism, delegitimizing European participation in said imperialism among European citizens. Plus European Liberals are too proud (putting it nicely) to associate positively with an ‚autocratic‘ power such as the PRC. They’ve spent so long shitting on non-liberal projects that it becomes unthinkable to imagine any productive partnership with them that doesn’t involve either condemnation or confrontation.