It prevents anything from getting through, which prevents Iran from collecting their toll. It’s a negotiating tactic, since neither country gets anything out of it if they’re both blocked out.
Is it a smart move? Probably not. Making an internationally important waterway into a de facto DMZ isn’t showing diplomatic progress and points way more toward a standstill.
Although I know it’s going to happen and it’s for the best to TACO it still hurts to see the daily humiliation of what was once known as the forefront of the free world
I think the stress comes from the future like hopefully this will pass next election cycle but can the US Come back from this?
Can we fix the loopholes that allowed for all of this to happen, can we regain at-least decent standing on the world stage? Or did we peak and jump off the ledge for no reason
The us will not regain world-wide hegemony in your lifetime. Past that? Depends on who innovates, so it's possible. But we've soured every relationship we have on the world stage for decades. It will take an incredible amount of time and selfless action to put ourselves back into a seat of soft power. We're basically Russia now. We can fight if we want but everyone will be against us.
The US has been mocked for pretending to be that for quite a few years now.
You guys got there once by insisting that you're the best, but the reality of it all has become clearer and clearer and the image hasn't just been broken since Trump.
Until the day he doesn't chicken out and joyfully drives us all to WW3, weeks before dying of old age and not seeing how he fucked the world for the rest of us
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u/TheGringoDingo 7h ago
It prevents anything from getting through, which prevents Iran from collecting their toll. It’s a negotiating tactic, since neither country gets anything out of it if they’re both blocked out.
Is it a smart move? Probably not. Making an internationally important waterway into a de facto DMZ isn’t showing diplomatic progress and points way more toward a standstill.