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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Neat. I do wonder what the US next steps will be. If one tanker can go, a second can go. If a second can go, they can all go. Is Trump actually going to start blowing up civilian tankers in the region? It's the only way to make good on the blockade, but it seems so outlandish. History is indeed happening

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Trump has already engaged in piracy of tankers in the Caribbean.

[-] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Stealing tankers is one thing; blowing them up is another.

They can't commandeer all of them.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

“The real issue is not simply whether ships can pass through Hormuz, but what spectrum of enforcement options US warships apply, and where they choose to apply them,” said Charlie Brown, an advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran, a US lobby and pressure group focused on Tehran.

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Inigo Montoya on the US use of sanctions: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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