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Happy Hoosier

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4. The strategy, I think...

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2026, 10:10 AM

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Is that if ships are interdicted, shippers will stop paying the toll and the pressure on Iran increases.

I think that's nonsense. I think US isolation will grow, and Chinese influence will expand. This is a DISASTER for US foreign policy.

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Wait! Trump is blockading Hormuz bc Iran closed it? [View all] yellowcanine Yesterday OP

Sense? malaise Yesterday #1

Make sense? How is *making sense* involved? He's just blockading a blockade, that's all. Ocelot II Yesterday #2

He's blockading the blockade Farmer-Rick Yesterday #3

LOL! Exactly!! paleotn Yesterday #8

The strategy, I think... Happy Hoosier Yesterday #4

See, if Trump blockades Iran's blockade (from outside it's perimeter), then Iran's blockade is actually not a blockade AZJonnie Yesterday #6

That, unfortunately, sounds like the likely motivation. GopherGal Yesterday #10

Maybe so. paleotn Yesterday #14

Trump wouldn't have the gonads to impede ships bound for Russia or China, so the whole thing would be pointless AZJonnie Yesterday #17

As that Chinese ship has shown. republianmushroom 6 hrs ago #25

Custer's decision underpants 6 hrs ago #29

He's blocking all traffic through the straight that agreed to pay the toll to Iran Volaris Yesterday #5

trump has a strategy LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #7

........ paleotn Yesterday #16

These are brilliant! BlueSpot Yesterday #19

This was already open before Trump started the war JI7 Yesterday #9

I'd love it if Iran tweeted, "Open the Strait, you fucking bastard!" Efilroft Sul Yesterday #11

More likely they'll say NH Ethylene 5 hrs ago #31

I hear it's really taxing work. Efilroft Sul 4 hrs ago #32

;-{) Repurposed Ballroom Bunker Dirt Goonch Yesterday #12

I can see a perverse kind of logic to it. subterranean Yesterday #13

I think he was hoping to punish any ship/country that made a deal with Iran for passage. travelingthrulife Yesterday #15

Not a real pirate. Real pirates capture a prize now and then. yellowcanine Yesterday #18

Maybe this isn't a valid analogy, boonecreek Yesterday #20

He wants that passage money lame54 Yesterday #21

You could see that dim bulb moment on his face when he Maru Kitteh 5 hrs ago #30

Looks like he's trying for the Uno Reverse play 0rganism Yesterday #22

George Lucas appears to have predicted this strategy LetMyPeopleVote 7 hrs ago #23

With trump is doesn't have to make sense. republianmushroom 6 hrs ago #24

The story has since evolved BeyondGeography 6 hrs ago #26

Iran was ForgedCrank 6 hrs ago #27

TACO --- again & again & again. Too scared of China (so he still has a bit of sense) Tim S 6 hrs ago #28

Simple. Somewhere, somehow, there's a donor who stands to make millions off this blockade of Iran. unblock 4 hrs ago #33