[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago

Yeah I think he means the buried enriched uranium. I don't think he knows what uranium is, just the N word. Trump is, to put it mildly, not "intellectual."

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 42 points 9 hours ago

Regardless of what the United States "needs" control of the Strait of Hormuz is impossible for them. There will be no worldwide blockade of China. Five weeks of Hormuz being closed was enough for all its European and Asian vassals to basically ignore commands from the United States, some of them reopening direct diplomatic contact with a state sanctioned by the United States and paying them money. What do you think will happen if the United States attempts to "blockade" not the place where ~20% of all energy flows come from, but 50% of all the industrial capacity on Earth? And close to 100% of all the capacity for electric cars and solar panels? It's not feasible, regardless of what USAmerican delusions they're able to cook up.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 59 points 10 hours ago

The U.S.A. will get all Nuclear “Dust,” created by our great B2 Bombers - No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form. This deal is in no way subject to Lebanon, either, but the USA will, separately, work with Lebanon, and deal with the Hezboolah situation in an appropriate manner. Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!! Thank you! President DJT

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116420395293904982

"Enough is enough!!!" JDPON Don gets the goods again. Remains to be seen if Israel will actually follow that, and if Trump will do anything when they do bomb Beirut like tomorrow or whatever (probably not).

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

nicholson-yes xi-clap

Hopefully the CPC embraces @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net Thought

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago

Rich Starry

This is not actually true. So this ship was headed from the UAE out to sea, passed Hormuz, but has since turned around and headed back towards Hormuz, presumably after a warning from the US blockade. A lot of confusion, but it appears the US blockade is around the Gulf of Oman, past Hormuz.

Per https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9773301

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 45 points 3 days ago

European countries are putting together a plan for a coalition of countries to help free up shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after the conflict, including sending mine - clearing and other military vessels, the Wall Street Journal reported. French president Emmanuel Macron said the plan is for an international defensive mission that doesn’t include the “belligerent” parties which sources said could include the US, Israel and Iran.

Per https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/14/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-urges-lebanon-to-pull-out-of-talks-with-israel-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-begins

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The key word here is "plan." It's definitely going to be the same thing that the EU has been saying for the past five weeks, which is that after the conflict they will be more than happy to "help" with freedom of navigation and mine-clearing. If, in the final deal of how this mess ends, Iran gets to continue just having a toll, they'll protect that. It's a nothing statement, a vague "plan" to pretend that they are "ready to contribute" for Trump's NATO ramblings or whatever. They are not gonna do a thing.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 69 points 4 days ago

after we’re finished with this

Buddy, you're never gonna be "finished" with Iran

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

I was told it was gonna open itself actually.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 113 points 4 days ago

Trump: "You want to see a stock market go down? Let a couple nuclear bombs be dropped on us or frankly any place else, and then you'll see a stock market that goes down. So the stock market has not gone very much at all. It's gone down a little bit. Much less than I thought. And frankly the gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought."

what-the-hell khamenei-what limmy-what

Per https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2043337001236144250

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago

It's ok, the Pope is building a Gundam deep inside the Vatican Archives

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 97 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wall Street Journal: Officials: Trump is considering launching limited strikes on Iran after the collapse of the Islamabad talks.

What the fuck are «limited strikes» in this context??? Why woulf they be «limited»? Are the Americans really so stupid as to believe that a «limited» strike on anything in Iran after five weeks of war would be met with only a «limited» strike by Iran? These kinds of bluffs don't work anymore. You can't lathe your way into a «limited» war anymore, buddy.

Per https://xcancel.com/AJABreaking/status/2043458174150172929#m

Also, according to CENTCOM they are going to target all ships entering or leaving Iranian ports, but ships transiting the strait not from Iranian ports are fine. So does that mean ships paying the toll to Iran are not being blockaded? They don't make calls at Iranian ports, they just sail close to one for visual inspection. The toll paying is all virtual. This "blockade" seems very poorly thought out, because there are no ships transiting the strait without Iranian approval.

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Culleton has lived in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. He has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.

Pretty crazy stuff in the article, including the horrible conditions ICE is holding these folks in. Not surprising in the slightest, but they really are running concentration camps:

After being held in ICE facilities near Boston and in Buffalo, New York, he was flown to a facility in El Paso, Texas, where he is sharing a cell with more than 70 men. Culleton said the detention centre was cold, damp and squalid and there were fights over insufficient food – “like a concentration camp, absolute hell”, he told the Irish Times, which first reported the story on Monday.

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