This is so fucking juvenile. “You can’t block the strait; we will!” Solving, exactly, what economic problem?
I swear, the junta is just day-trading oil via tweet.
Donald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to take control of the strategic waterway from Iran in the aftermath of failed peace negotiations between the countries in Pakistan.
The US president also threatened to bomb Iran’s water treatment facilities, power plants and bridges if Tehran did not agree to abandon its nuclear weapons programme, the key sticking point between the two sides.
Trump’s surprise announcement of a blockade came after face-to-face peace negotiations between the US and Iran in Islamabad that lasted 21 hours collapsed on Sunday morning.
Lmao, the dumbest fucking move he could have made.
Like, if he had just quietly backed away and pretended like everything was fine, let Iran charge tolls for passing through the straight as an implicit form of reparations that the rest of the world would pay for. Gas prices would have have come down, and his own base would have forgotten the whole thing.
But nah, he’s going to force gas prices to go up so long as he doesn’t get… what? What does he even want at this point? What is this even about?
Placing bets on oil prices. It’s always about the money.
Distracting from the Epstein files.
As depressing as it may be, I think his base cares more about filling up their pavement princess pickups than they do about the Epstein files. So that seems like a really stupid move from him in such a case.