Operation Desert Blunder
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NonCredibleDiplomacyUpdate: It seems they are blocking it themselves now⸘?
Appropriate, because the next frame is them falling on their face:
Well, uh... so... about that.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/12/trump-announces-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-after-us-iran-peace-talks-end
Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran peace talks end
US Navy to enforce blockade, Trump says after condemning Iran for blocking waterway and complaining no agreement reached in Islamabad.
So uh... apparently we are just ... blocking... the Strait.
Which will of course, open automatically.
Mhm.
Yeeep.
Makes sense, since otherwise Iran sells passage. So this is one is the few logical things to do in that situation.
Well, Iran can still just blow up any ship that doesn't pay the toll.
As they have been doing.
Just because "I declare BLOCKADE" doesn't mean that Iran can now somehow not do that.
So no, this is insane to do, because now you just have a double blockade, and nothing at all can get through.
The thing that would make sense to do at this point is just fucking leave, and maybe uh, apologize, for doing a bunch of war crimes?
Itan stated in their earlier ceasefire proposal that they wanted to have the tolling thing be shared with Oman, have it voted on and ratfied in the UN as international law, and the main point of it was to recoup the costs of the damage that's been done to them via the tolls, instead of demanding outright reparations.
Well, they know that the UN won't ever accept it. That part is not honest.
The idea that it is to recover the loses is also not fully honest. If it was to recover the loses, the tool would have an expiration date.
Currently, the US destroyed the international law, so there's no reason for Iran to obey it alone. But pretending the toll satisfies it isn't honest.
How do you even begin to estimate the losses Iran incurred, cost of rebuilding and opportunity cost
I got great news for y'all. Trump just blocked the Strait of Hormuz. Man is playing chess on more dimensions than I can think of.
Imagine paying the toll and now Trump says you can't go because you shouldn't have to pay a toll... This surely will go well.
Will China make protective convoys for their ships? Will the US attack those?
Man is playing chess on more dimensions than I can think of
But are any of those dimensions ours?
So just so everyone has this clear:
Trump is saying that no ship that has paid a fee to Iran will be allowed to transit.
So, now, even the ships that Iran was letting through, will not get through.
Before WW2, the US embargoed a whole ton of oil exports to Japan, and this is widely seen as forcing the hand of their expansionist aims into attacking the Phillipenes and Pear Harbor at the same time.
We are now effectively blockading the entire world of ~20% of its oil, about ~35% of its fetrilizer, etc.
So this is uh... immensely stupid, as it is a lrgitimate causus belli against the US for the entire world.
Also, its a very good way to have a hypersonic missile take out an aircraft carrier.
When food prices skyrocket it will be Bidens fault
Yo world I heard you like blockades so I added a blockade to your blockade...
Wild!!!
I was just in Lebanese restaurant wondering why the news guy was drawing a big red line off the coast of Oman.
Just assumed it was related to whatever Iran was doing.
i saw a video yesterday, about the endgame would be a pipeline hub in israel, so israel can control all oil flow in the region. another alternative would be oman.
Apart from the colossal effort to build that, there's waaaaayyy too much land in between that no one really controls.
Yes but, at least Iran now has fewer missiles and drones to fire at the surrounding countries to cause lots of damage, because they fired lots of missiles and drones at the surrounding countries causing lots of damage.
And they won't kill as many of their civilians because we're killing some of their civilians before they can.
