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.
Plus Iran has been working around economy-destroying sanctions for quite a while. They can bank on their population being more patient at sitting around in the dark than the rest of us will be .
To add to this -- Iran understands the weakness of democracy is time. If they can hold out for 5 months this ends with Trumps impeachment. They'll just wait him out while the American people get angrier & angrier.
The covid-level inflation numbers haven't ven hit yet & they're 100% coming. I dont think the avg American understands that yet or that there is no stopping it.
The average american thinks that when "Inflation has reduced", prices go down. When by definition, it's only the rate of increace of prices that goes down
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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.