Preparing for a little change in management?

Whitest country in America.

…is it tasty?

Always did?

What is the point of a study that confirms what is already known? Paved streets are an even bigger contributor.

Didn’t even know it was for sale.

Markets say the strait is open, but the IRGC says otherwise.

Anecdotally I see this with people I talk to in RL (in Canada). People who used to be on the China-bad (like myself) train have gotten off it and see their previous opinions as shaped by propaganda.

It’s just that the bar for responsible government has become really low these days.

simply harassing people

At least the French tried something; Canada doesn’t even bother to advocate for its detained citizens.

Mostly a fear tactic, would be surprising to see the state house and feed an inmate for 60+ years of life expectancy.

Problem is… it’s better now than it was before.

South Koreans aren’t the Japanese… they’re not known for playing around.

Heads of state don’t usually do the military updates themselves, and if so not with each other. Churchill wasn’t in constant communication with Stalin.

If the Atlantic is praising him, you already know what is his politics.

“Effective immediately, the ​United States Navy, the Finest in ​the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING ‌any ⁠and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,”

Or what?

Any random country with a navy coming to collect a toll like some sort of sequential highway robbery would be pretty funny.

It’s fully within the territorial waters of Iran or Oman. I’m not an international law expert but it seems that it’s a practiced convention not a legally enforceable rule.

The right of “innocent passage” in a country’s territorial waters is guaranteed by the UNCLOS. It’s a legally binding rule since both Iran and the USA have signed the convention.

But both have probably also violated a dozen of international conventions since the start of the war, so that’s mostly besides the point.

The problem is that the US extorting protection money from merchant ships for passing in an otherwise free international waterway makes the US government look like a mafia state. Which it may very well be, although it tried to avoid making it this clear before.

An embarrassment within an embarrassment…

Not even a ceasefire just a straight defeat.

Probably why it won’t last, or at least violated several times.