Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)If this whole thing wasn't weird already it is now ðĪŠ
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Trump #TrumpsNewWarOnGlobalShipping #winning
"There will be no peace until I get everything I want and no one else gets anything they want" - ð
tired: "open the f---in' strait"
wired: "I'm not letting you open the f---in' strait"
How is he even going to *know* who has paid money to Iran? They were planning on only charging vessels from countries more closely aligned with the U.S., so what's he going to do â "interdict" vessels from countries with friendly U.S. ties while letting those without them sail on freely through?
"I'm blocking the Strait of Hormuz."
"No, *I'm* blocking the Strait of Hormuz."
"*I'm* blocking the Strait of Hormuz, and so's my wife!"
Can you imagine how much Putin is laughing right now?
Here's what's going on, for anyone who's never had to deal with anyone like Trump:
The Iranian charges on vessels linked to U.S.-aligned countries aren't just protection money. They are *reparations*, for damage to Iranian infrastructure caused by the U.S. and Israel's unprovoked war of aggression on Iran.
Trump can't let that stand because reparations are *consequences*, and it's pivotal for anyone with Trump's psychology to see themselves as and be seen by others as exempt from consequences.
There are other details, like the charges remaining making blatant that the situation in the strait is worse now than it was before the conflict, and the whole "U.S. should be able to sail wherever it wants whenever it wants" principle (even though the strait is arguably within Iranian and Omani territorial waters, as Tehran has said).
But the reason the response here is so deranged, is, in my view, the consequences and their challenge to Trump's belief he should be immune to them.
25th amendment, folks, before this gets worse. You know it will. All he learned last week is that he can declare he's about to wipe a civilization off the face of the Earth permanently and remain President of the United States of America ð