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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
President Trump on Wednesday said he is considering the formation of a “joint venture” with Iran to set up tolls in the Strait of Hormuz after the Trump administration and Tehran agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal.
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The president also suggested Monday that the U.S. could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the channel. Leaders in Tehran signaled last week it would install a “toll booth” system to exert a price on ships seeking safe passage through the strait.
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God, what an idiot.
Wants his cut.
Gosh, I wonder what Iran thinks about that idea? The article has this to say:
Any “joint venture” was not part of Iran’s 10-point peace plan that the U.S. agreed to and the president previously called “workable.”
And that’s it! Guess this one is still in the “concept of a plan” phase.
“Joint venture” wherein the USA saves a few trillion dollars by standing down in Iran, and Iran tolls every ship that passes.
Art of the Deal.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON AROUND HERE? DID A SATIRE WRITER GET PROMOTED TO WRITING REAL LIFE? SOMEBODY MAKE LIKE SHE-HULK AND GO YELL AT THE PRODUCER OF THIS SHITSHOW REALITY!
Imagine what you do is so criminal the USA wants to join in 😂😂😂
here’s a joint venture idea to Trump: your goal is to fuck off as much as you can with your buddy Israel, and Iran does the toll collecting. Iran get benefits from tolls, and you get benefits by stabilising gas prices over time.
I know the man is just throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but the whiplash from “civilizational erasure” and “back to the Stone Ages” to “buddy-buddy halfsies on illegal tolls” is a little much.
How brain is mush, and he started out with a bottom tier brain.
But his uncle was a top scientist at Harvard! /s
A collective “Fuck you, sit down and shut up” to Mr. Pedo would be nice.
Is anyone else considering it?
That is the question. The current world system depends on there not being these kinds of tolls. But if Trump legitimizes them, then world trade could be fucked.
The current system has worked so well for so long, people don’t even seem to realize how much wealth it generates for everybody. And that it doesn’t need to be this way. Actually not unlike what happens in the US, if the rule of law collapses completely.
Any random country with a navy coming to collect a toll like some sort of sequential highway robbery would be pretty funny.
If Iran is sharing toll money with anyone, its China.
He would me more successful in trying to proclaiming reality into being if he said he was considering getting a pony.
The bigger irony of this is that a Trump actually doing this would further turn the world away from the US. If it was just Iran imposing the toll, over time the international community would sour on Iran for not moving past the war. This would economically benefit the US more than any direct cashflow from a toll ever would, as it would stabilize devestment from America. Now nobody will ever blame Iran for the toll, solidifying the loss in American soft power forever.
I don’t think it would be between the US and Iran, but rather a Trump-Iran joint venture. You know, to further compensate for his hard work.
lol dumpy swindling? SAY IT ISN’T SO!
Iran: “Nah.”
