Mideast ports under threat, U.S. military set to impose shipping blockade

JD has the good sense to kick himself in the balls in private.

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A lucky stroke

Weekend at beenie's - maralago edition

Yes, and yes, unfortunately.

I mean, get your shit together and don't bring the whole world into it. So yes, so you can vote someone less demented next.

“ American” Fixed that for you. As much as as it saddens me I think it might be helpful if we all started realizing this is our fault even the people who didn’t vote for him. We allowed this to happen.

If that comforts you, considering how the party is right now, there won't be a "next democrat" for a long time

Use the 2A at that point.

That's the comedy in it, you have a mega advanced military complex and they are outdone by c**** efficiency rather than overspending. Not that they care because I'm sure they have their bag. It was never about protecting the troops.

They don’t need to destroy every warship, just need to make the strait literally impassable. Having open war in the strait is a very bad idea

They're of limited use against ships generally, the warhead just lacks the oomph needed, most of the serious damage was done by missiles with higher payloads. That being said you don't need to threaten to sink a civilian ship to scare it away from crossing the straight.

What about for swarms of hundreds of fpv drones?

Right, the phalanx ciws that has an ammunition for a whopping 20(!) seconds of continuous fire. That will surely stop a drone swarm attack that can go on for hours. Throw in some sea drones and small fpv drones and you are up for a fun time. This is a new war reality, the bigger the ship the juicy is it as a target

They have droneboats, and alot of them

*cough* Cole *cough cough cough*

It would be very funny for the rest of the world, would suck for the sailors being put in that position by a stroked out dementia riddled pervert though.

You can legally declare a war, but fighting is never 100% legal. There always will be stuff that would be consider a war crime.

Declaration is not required, blockades are inherently an act of war. So are all the bombing runs, and the torpedoing of that warship was definitely an act of war too.

This will be the test

>The laws of war simply say that vessels flying the flag of a neutral state must not be impeded This isn't true. Neutral ships generally can continue to trade, can't be attacked without cause (like actively relaying belligerents positions/putting belligerents at risk and their neutral status must be respected per Hague Convention XIII and the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. But like belligerents can legally interfere with neutral vessels in several situations; They can stop and search - pretty common in blockades as checking cargo, manifestos, that the flag is correct (no false flags) and accurate and that no arms are being smuggled aboard. Most importantly for blockades, If a lawful blockade is declared, neutral ships trying to breach it can be stopped or captured. Outside the UN and Iran f****** about a blockade is actually legal if notification is given, it's enforced, applied to all states equally, allows humanitarian ships through, and is necessary to achieve the military goals. Which this meets all the criteria of. Notably a blockade cannot be "of an area" like what Iran did. It must be of ports of an active participant. Which is what the US is actually doing. >Germany managed to adhere to this is WW2 as it’s U-Boats would not target American ships heading to the UK even if obviously supporting the war effort (Until 1942 at least) but they did target Allied shipping The first US merchant ship, the SS *Robin Moor*, was sunk by a German U-boat in May 1941.

I don't think the US or China are silly enough to start fighting each other. It's all bark in my opinion. Both countries rely too much on each other 

The blockade technically isn’t illegal unless neutral ships are prevented from making peaceful passage U-Boats in WW2 had the UK blockaded but would not fire on American flagged shipping even if it was entering British ports as they were flying under a neutral flag

More like US runs out of sensible ideas. Now they are playing chicken with a regime full of roosters.

I think you're more just looking for a different style of media. That style absolutely exists. You just want to read the opinion section or a tabloid aligning with your politics instead of the news.

Those would be editorial headlines. This is not an editorial article. You being mad, whether appropriately or not, doesn't mean other people need to constantly gratify your anger.

I suspected that if he magically controlled the strait, the world would be still be paying toll rates but they would be going directly to him.

You’re correct if we don’t hold leaders accountable to the law. Might is right is a very bleak world, and we need to fight to preserve the law where we can and for as long as we can. The nazis were the epitome of might is right in Europe. But they still found themselves on trial

Oh most likely especially if China and Russia use the same loopholes the British Empire did against Germany but for now this blockade is probably one of the few legal things he’s actually done so long as it stays just as a block on Iranian vessels It makes you wonder why he didn’t bother to start with the blockade against Iran then escalate to bombings if Iran used force to stop the blockade

weird, it's always been "Middle East" in my newsworld