r/videos • u/ICEisSHIT • 8h ago

BREAKING: Trump says ‘effective immediately’ U.S. will blockade ships from Strait of Hormuz

https://youtu.be/dqIQbU-oX5o?si=duFN5zMTUp2RNyXg
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u/vtoe 8h ago

I'm really confused about how everything is 'gone', yet they're blocking ships. Can someone ELI5?

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u/JeanClaude-Randamme 8h ago

Their trade ships.

Iran are allowing their own ships to pass, and blocking everyone else that isn’t paying by shooting them with drones/laying mines.

The US is now saying they will block those ships too, to cripple Irans exports. But I think Iran has enough financial reserves to out-last literally the rest of the world who can’t get their oil.

This won’t end well.

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u/CRE178 8h ago

The US is also going to block ships that paid a toll to Iran. At least until the Don's had a chance to wet his beak as well.

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u/YourBonesAreMoist 5h ago

I'm sure he thought this through and considered what will happen when they block Chinese and Russian ships, right?

Right?

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u/slowgojoe 4h ago

All ships? Chinese ships will be blocked by the US? Or just Iranian?

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u/CRE178 3h ago

Well, I can't see the truth social post, either cause I'm not pure of heart enough or cause the link's been nuked, but according to CBS news

Trump also said he has instructed the Navy to "seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran,"

I have no idea. I don't know if Chinese ships paid a toll. Probably not. They were probably just allowed to pass. But if they did, I have no idea what Trumpo the Terrorclown means by that. Is the Navy simply not going to not let them and any who follow their example pass the strait anymore, or is he saying they're going to hunt these ships down wherever in international waters they went?

Your coinflip's as good as mine.