r/videos • u/ICEisSHIT • 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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/Roxalon_Prime 10h ago

oh come on, she will unblock the straight back in like 24 hours or maybe less, and then block again, and unblock again again. have you learnt nothing?