“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,” said Trump, who is strongly opposed to the idea of Iran charging ships a toll to pass through the strait.
“I have also 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,” he said.
That it should be toll-free?
Or that the US should control the Strait?
Personally I think it shows all the signs of Trump’s inner toddler coming out screaming.
Agreed. His lack of any meaningful ability to not be a selfish scumbag will haunt America for decades to come.
Will America learn? Or will it continue sticking its fingers in its ears and ranting about ‘the liberals’?
Rhetorical question, the answer is obvious.
The down votes here and below are very strange.
My genuine hope is that Trump is such an extreme and specific personality that infected our politics at the “right” time (read: perfectly wrong time) that literally nobody else would be capable of doing the damage he is doing at the rate he is doing it.
Yes, he’s somewhat a symptom of fundamental problems in our system. But the safeguards we have in place would normally cause our devolution to happen much more slowly in which the eventual dystopia won’t feel as bad because each level down won’t feel as noticeably worse than the prior level.
So if we survive this term (huge fucking IF), then I believe we can actually have a slight rebuilding period until the next generation who is less aware of Trump’s bullshit are ready to get us back on track of proper deterioration.
They didn’t learn the first 8 times and history in that country repeats itself every 20 years.
You should know that the Hormuz strait is an international water so you must imagine what will happen if other countries with similar geographical condition follow this act. They’ll think if Iran can get away with it so why can’t they?
Why should the US get away with blockading it? It’s not even our part of the world! And it’s just Trump out for his own profits as usual.