Heliograph

@VeroniqueB99 sorry now I lost your post 😆🤦

but here's the #alttext

"do you understand what Iran just did..

they didn't threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz.. they did something nobody saw coming..

they passed a law.. the "Hormuz Law".. formal tolls on every ship that passes through.. fees for navigation.. fees for pollution.. a "regional fund"..

they just made themselves the landlord of 20% of the world's oil supply.. permanently..

the US called it "illegal and unacceptable"..

but Iran already read the history book..

> 1956.. Egypt's Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and started charging tolls..

> Britain called it illegal.. France called it illegal.. they both invaded to take it back..

> Eisenhower told them to stand down..

Egypt kept the canal..

and has been collecting tolls on it every single day since..

Iran just looked at that chapter and said.. our turn..

the country that spent all of 2025 slapping tariffs on every nation on earth just called someone else's toll booth "illegal"..

the only difference between a tariff and a toll is who's collecting it."

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Show threadBrad Macpherson5h ago
@Heliograph That rarest of rare things, a landlord that could turn out to be a positive influence on the world. Let's hope the fees are high enough to permanently kill fossil fuels as a means for power.
Show threadchristian mock5h ago
@Heliograph I beg to differ. The canal was built and is maintained with great effort, while straits just exist -- and are codified in international law as being open for all maritime traffic.
Putting a toll on the straits of Hormuz would set a bad example -- what about the english channel, the straits in the baltic, gibraltar, and many many more? Notice how all the countries that could block the russian's access to the baltic and the black sea have carefully not done so?
Show threadHeliograph4h ago
@cm you and I probably agree on this, but I just provided the Screenreader text for a meme of a fedifren