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BlueSpot

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19. These are brilliant!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:52 PM

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

Sense? malaise Monday #1

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

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

LOL! Exactly!! paleotn Monday #8

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

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

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

Maybe so. paleotn Monday #14

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

As that Chinese ship has shown. republianmushroom 15 hrs ago #25

Custer's decision underpants 15 hrs ago #29

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

trump has a strategy LetMyPeopleVote Monday #7

........ paleotn Monday #16

These are brilliant! BlueSpot Monday #19

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

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

More likely they'll say NH Ethylene 15 hrs ago #31

I hear it's really taxing work. Efilroft Sul 14 hrs ago #32

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

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

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

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

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

He wants that passage money lame54 Monday #21

You could see that dim bulb moment on his face when he Maru Kitteh 15 hrs ago #30

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

George Lucas appears to have predicted this strategy LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago #23

With trump is doesn't have to make sense. republianmushroom 15 hrs ago #24

The story has since evolved BeyondGeography 15 hrs ago #26

Iran was ForgedCrank 15 hrs ago #27

TACO --- again & again & again. Too scared of China (so he still has a bit of sense) Tim S 15 hrs ago #28

Simple. Somewhere, somehow, there's a donor who stands to make millions off this blockade of Iran. unblock 14 hrs ago #33