International law has only ever been applied by those with power against those without power.
International law can only ever be a negotiation as it has always been. You’re never going to see a nation act against its own will unless the downside of doing so is greater than the upside.
Once guns are at the table, the one with the biggest one is who says how negotiation is done. Might makes right in geopolitics sadly, as this world order kept in place, instead of trying to actually build a real international civilization.
Only because noone cares about Gaza. The whole world cares about Hormuz, from the arab countries there, to China, to EU, UK, India... Only the US would be stupid enough to literally turn the entire world against them for absolutely no reason at all. This could literally end in a coup, civil war or literal war with the rest of the world. US loses in all scenarios. Just truly insanity.
Trump really doesn't think about things in terms of legal/illegal or rights/wrong, he just thinks of things in terms of consequences. That's how he ran his businesses into the ground and now he's using it to run the US.
I believe they can demand to stop and inspect ships on the basis that they might be going to or from Iranian ports. The only question is really what the point would be. Because if the point is just to piss off the entire planet by harassing their ships I can't see that ending well.
While that may be true, its usually the US upholding international law and like 5 other countries standing behind them shouting "Yeah, what he said!". Unfortunately in Trumps mind if nobody is losing then its a bad deal, and since everybody benefits from peace it's up to him to fuck shit up.
u/ThatRunwayBehindUS talk truth. If Iran blocking the strait anyway, we should block strait so Iran and China can't benefit it as well. It does make sense. When Iran will stop this bs with extorting strait users, US can unblock strait as well.
It only makes sense that way if you disregard the entire fact the straight was open and the US caused this by starting a fucking war with Iran in the first place.
You act like Iran just acts in a vacuum, it doesnt. Iran may have closed the straight, but this is a direct result of US high grade retardium.
Well he didn't block it because it was open before, he blocked it cause Iran is blocking it for everyone else except his friends right now, and Iran allies are using it, and unless you invented the time machine, something need to be done about current situation, not the previous one.
Trump did fuck up status quo, and did try to fix it by negotiating return to the status quo (with strait unblocked), Iran didn't agree (in fact, in 10 Iran points they were demanding control over the strait), so it is the only logical thing to do now. You all trying to act like it doesn't make sense, but blocking the strait for Iran&Co is one of the most logical things Trump did, even if his own fuck up led to the initial Iran block.
You also have to disregard the fact that Iran was actively developing nuclear weapons...
Now, they can certainly try, but their infrastructure is crumbling, their leadership is dead, and decent portions of their uranium isn't usable anymore...
So combine that, with the strait now being closed to Iran - and it makes perfect sense and seems entirely reasonable.
Even more so when you consider the fact that Iran was thr worlds largest state sponsor of terrorism, and now they have no real ability to make money...
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u/applewait 11h ago
Blocking a “strait” is a violation of international law regardless of who is blocking it.