US military says it will blockade Iranian ports after ceasefire talks ended without agreement
apnews.com
President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy will immediately begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.

The president added that he has “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”

  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    This isn’t the first time a doomsday prophecy falls thru, it’s gonna go like it always does.

    Yeah but I feel like the scale of this one might be a smidge bigger than the others. Combined.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Only because you’re living thru this one, which is the same logical fallacy as when 2,000 years of Christians have all been convinced Jesus is coming back in their lifetime, and so will the next 2,000 years of Christians.

      Shit that’s happening around us currently always seem like a bigger deal, because to us it is, because it’s happening to us right now.

      Zoom out and start thinking as “humanity” and not “I” and none of this shit is really that new.

      • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Yeah but I’ve lived through several others that never felt this big - Y2K, Mayan calendar, lots of smaller groups or religious zealots, probably other shit I’m forgetting. I think the big difference was that none of them possessed the means to bring it about themselves if they were sundowning. Which is a distinct possibility this time around.