President Trump Announces U.S Navy to Detain Vessels Paying Iranian Hormuz Toll

Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip -step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz" Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours." "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We are giving them more time." Mar 24: "The war is nearing its end." Mar 25: "We are still negotiating." Mar 26: "Iran is begging for peace. They gave us a gift. We will give them more time." Mar 27: "Talks with iran are going very well" Mar 28: "War will be over soon" Mar 29: "Maybe we take Kharg island, maybe we dont" Mar 30: "Open the Strait or we will obliterate all energy infrastructure and oil wells" Mar 31: "We dont need the strait, we got plenty of oil. Get it yourself UK." April 1: "Iran wants a ceasefire" / "Strongly considering pulling out of NATO" / "There's no deal with Iran" April 3:"We can take their oil and make a fortune" April 5:"Open the fuckin strait you crazy bastards or youll be living in hell" April 6:"US could charge for strait of hormuz passage" April 7:"A whole civilization will die tonight" April 8:"Iran accepts ceasefire, the strait is opened" *strait closed* April 9:"NATO allies have days to reopen the strait" April 10:"Iran has no cards" April 11:"We're going to open up the strait" April 12:"US will blockade the strait"

He want the tolls himself.

And do what, exactly? You’re telling me the US Navy will use military force against Chinese ships attempting to freely travel in international waters? Will we use military force against NATO allies? What about Daddy Putin? If ever there was a TACO in our near future, it’s now. Trump won’t follow through on this and the US is weaker because of his bluff.

Naval blockades are an act of war. If he thinks he's gonna pirate oil headed for Asian allies, and other nations, it's not a good idea. In a lot of way I feel like he's trying to provoke a world war. If that's true, why? If that answer to that is to avoid the Epstein files, he truly is the worst leader potentially in history. Think about it, sending people into conflict to die to save yourself from the repercussions of your evil deeds. Truly disgusting.

Is that not an act of war?

Let see them stop Chinese, Russian and European tankers

Ironic to see the US Navy, created to protect US commerce from pirates, actually become pirates. 

Given this is in international waters, a military ship attacking or blockading a civilian vessel is literally piracy.

New grift unlocked

I want out of this stupid timeline.

Wait lemme get this straight…now the USA is doing what they wanted Iran to stop doing?

This f***** is just flailing. And the world is paying for it.

He's trying to manipulate the markets. Hell but low tomorrow then reverse this statement the next day. There's a pattern forming here.

Us will spend 1 billion dollars a day to stop Iran from making 20 million dollars a day. The economy wont get better but we are WINNING BIGLY This is MAGA logic We will gladly spend the 20 million we would get from fees to cost Americans 1 billion dollars per day as they lose their 4th Vietnam. This is Iran logic Dont get mad at me, you voted for this MAGA.

Equal parts act of war AND piracy. Republicans in Congress have no spine for allowing this to go on. He needs to be removed or the other option.

No way he stops China-bound ships. TACO incoming.

Hey kids! What time is it? That's right, it's Market Manipulation Monday!

This is embarassing, and I'm not even american.

They must pay him instead. Through his shitcoin.

Would he just f****** disappear already Jesus f****** christ

Tuesday he will give up again and won’t go through with it

Yar that be piracy matey!

Isn't that basically robbery? Someone paid for something, and America is just going to go take it from them?? Stop the planet, I want to get off.

Jesus Christ. We were all worried he was going to bring us back to the 50s, mfer taking us all the way back to 1726 peak piracy

Once again Congress, this is where you are supposed to step in

There really wasn't even a concept of a plan beyond the initial bombing campaigns, was there... Absolute pure cinema.

The Strait of Hormuz has been functionally closed to commercial shipping since early March, not by formal declaration, but by Iranian attacks, threats, and now the selective permission of passage through an Iranian-controlled route in exchange for tolls paid to Tehran. A US blockade is not being announced into a neutral maritime environment. It is being layered on top of an existing Iranian interdiction regime, with inverted rules. Commercial vessels now face two navies with opposing orders: Iran will permit transit if the toll is paid, and Washington has announced it will seize any vessel in international waters that paid it. The merchant marine that the blockade is ostensibly designed to protect is being asked to choose which of two naval authorities to defy. That is not a freedom-of-navigation operation. It is a trap that the commercial operator is standing inside, with one exit priced by Tehran and the other criminalized by Washington. The operational weakness of the announcement is that the math is already favoring compliance with Iran. Ship & Bunker reports that at current commodity prices, shipping companies are willing to pay the Iranian toll because the cost passes through to the buyer and the voyage completes. That means the population of "vessels that have paid a toll to Iran" is not a small set of bad actors available for clean interdiction. It is potentially the majority of commercial traffic through a chokepoint that handles roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil, including cargo bound for Japan, South Korea, India, and European refiners. An interdiction regime at that scale is not enforceable. It collapses on the first Chinese-flagged tanker that refuses to be boarded, on the first allied government that declines to honor the seizure of cargo it has purchased, or on the first shipment Washington has to wave through to avoid a diplomatic rupture with a treaty ally. The announcement assumes the commercial world will comply. The commercial world has already shown, by paying Iran, that it follows whichever authority the math favors. The math does not currently favor Washington. TL;DR: Washington announced a blockade that only works if Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo, and Seoul pretend it does.

There is no way China is going to be "chill" about us detaining or worse preventing them from getting their oil. Think about what China can do to our economy if they decided to dump U. S. treasuries. What a shitshow.

Other nations are going to see that as piracy on the high seas. It’s one thing if he does it to some small little country who can’t fight back, but it sounds like he plans on stopping ships from major countries. Countries have gone to war for a lot less than this.

So piracy. This f****** moron is openly ordering piracy in International waters. Congress, this is the whole f****** point of your existence, do your job.

Here’s more of those illegal orders we’ve all been warning about

Whatever happened to the duty to deny illegal orders?

Did you pay them ? No! Ok, you can go.

He's mad Iran told him no when he asked for a cut of the tolls. This is how he negotiates. He bluffs. He threatens. And he folds

Everyone needs to start sanctioning USA

The clown wasn’t satisfied with the attention of 350 million Americans, he needs all 8 billion. All because his father never praised him. Someone convince him to do therapy, before he sets the world on fire.

Good thing we didn't elect Harris. She was destined for WW3 /s

I seriously doubt he is going to detain Chinese and Russian ships. But let’s watch the show

Some context regarding UN and US laws now broken by the U.S: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS): [https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention\_agreements/texts/unclos/part7.htm](https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part7.htm) Article 87: 1. The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or land-locked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law. It comprises, *inter alia*, both for coastal and land-locked States: (a) freedom of navigation; *Article 88: Reservation of the high seas for peaceful purposes* \- The high seas shall be reserved for peaceful purposes. *Article 89: Invalidity of claims of sovereignty over the high seas* \- No State may validly purport to subject any part of the high seas to its sovereignty. [https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12578](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12578) " U.S. law concerning domestic maritime issues and law of the sea **parallel** many UNCLOS provisions **concerning state control and regulation** of territorially adjacent waters, **navigation through and use of the high seas**"

I don't see China allowing their ships to be detained by the United States.

This f***** is going to cause WW3

Or what? Is the USA going to fire on commercial vessels??

We’re just the assholes of the world now. We have to impeach, remove, indict and convict him if we want to build back any of our international relationships.

This reminds me: Back in 1941 America imposed an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan…A few months later - Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.

TACO Monday coming

I’m sorry. The president is simply a fool

This MF thinks he can do a shake down, in an area that he has no control over? 🫡

Sooo piracy. That's just straightup piracy.

Couldn’t open it, so make it closeder?

A quick question If USA blocks shipping in International waters, is that considered piracy?

Can't wait to see him trying to interdict a Chinese ship with a People's Liberation Army Navy e*****, what could possibly go wrong ?