• Asafum@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Trump: Iran doesn’t run the show, I do! So I say the strait is closed, not them! Ha! Take that global economy! I’m the big man!

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      10 hours ago

      It kills Iran’s ability to extract tolls from ships that want to get past. Assuming that it’s enforced, which I am not at all sure it will be. Like, are we honestly going to, say, put an anti-ship missile into a China-flagged merchant ship because they paid off Iran?