"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.

This isn't just a continuation of the war against Iran, but a declaration of war against any country that relies on those energy flows

Southeast Asia about to eat shit

Sometimes I wonder if the fall of capitalism will be easier than we thought

Operation Driving Drunk To Another Intervention And Screaming I'm Not An Alcoholic And To Prove It To Everyone I Guess I Have To Drink An Entire Bottle Of Vodka And Show That I Just Have A Naturally High Tolerance Unlike You Fucking Alcoholics Who Can't Drive On Four Beers Fuck It Alright Make It A Bottle Of Vodka And A Bottle Of Vodka If You Don't Believe Me None Of You Ever Fucking Believe Me And It's So Stressful That I Need A Drink Before I Do This

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.

Oh yeah well I'll do a blockade of my own but better and sexier!

Wow, Richard Medhurst really called it. The US is in it's pirate phase.

please let a carrier be sunk, that would be amazing

Block-aiding

now i get why they clogged the toilets on that aircraft carrier, it was practice for blocking the strait and for eating shit

Warehouse fire challenge is now U.S. naval fire challenge 🔥🔥🔥

99% chance this is just Trump saying shit, but please send a carrier into the strait to demine it.

Putting US navy ships in place to get hit seems like the same sort of issue they'd face by "escorting container ships through the strait", right?

So is the US Navy going to attack chinese tankers?

If he was smart he would have gotten out in front with this on February 27th.

Now he is stuck giving Iran the "highest form of flattery".

Now that he has destroyed all the targets and eliminated Iran's water boats, he needs a new challenge

Fuck France haha

"You can't blockade me! I'll blockade you!"

"If you can't beat em, join em" ahh Trump

can a geopolitics understander explain whether iran's proximity to turkey and russia (via the caspian sea) can help them absorb the effects on trade from the blockade

The US will block all traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, to retaliate against the Iranians for blocking all traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Let me write the word "logic" inside this circle.

Wow Mr President this is so smart, don't chicken out like a woke liberal. Do it so much yes sir

After failing to reopen a strait that was already open before he decided to start a war, JDPON Don now wants to close a strait that was already closed because of the war.

Strategic genius right here.