Ship Testing Hormuz Blockade Appears to Transit Then U-Turn

So this gets a little legalistic. The law around blockades is very well fleshed out and has been for a long time. A country that institutes a blockade needs to make announcements about it and make clear the ports it is blockading, here all Iranian ports. The blockade needs to be actual and not just theoretical.or threatened, which means a nation needs to by capable of physically enforcing the blockade and actually does so. That blockade gives the blockading nation authority to stop, search, seize, and impound all enemy and neutral ships going to and from the ports in question. It also allows the blockading nation to stop ships that were at an enemy port and then went to a neutral port and then attempted to breach the blockade under the doctrine of "continuous voyage". It also allows the blockading nation to stop ships that are headed to a neutral port but with cargo bound for the enemy nation or ships that come from a neutral port but with cargo that came from the enemy nation, again under the same doctrine. The USN and every seafaring nation takes this legalism pretty seriously. I am not sure how far the USN is taking the doctrine of "continuous voyage" under these circumstances, but suffice it to say that any little sneaky moves involving leap frogging around ports or loading Iranian cargo from neutral ports would not give legal cover to run the blockade.

Time to further piss off the Emiratis and the rest of the GCC by blocking their sales to their largest consumer. Great going Don Tzu

Oh ok.

Ah man, listnook gonna hate this since they were all cheering that China dont give af and called the US' bluff. Aww, sorry guys!

We know the trump admin is incompetent but starting to wonder if he managed to get rid of all the best American generals too, or if they're just afraid to tell him how terrible his ideas are.

Honestly the incompetence is beginning to feel intentional. I’ll give you that. It’s bad faith journalism regardless, because ignorance isn’t an excuse to spread blatant misinformation.

Be funny if journalists were like "everyone's insider trading but us? Time we got our beaks wet"

Nice Simpsons reference.

People have always loved playing the l******

I’m trying to DCA down

Do you know if this is true on kalshi too? Asking for a friend. 

China's internal approach to Taiwan shifted in the last year or so and most people have not adapted their worldviews. China now views Taiwan's integration as an inexxorable outcome of US foreign policy, and not something they need to risk open war to achieve. Additionally pro-Chinese support within Taiwan has grown, particularly as the USA under Trump has proven to be unreliable global ally at best, or an outright enemy of middle powers like Taiwan at worst. China is thrilled to see the USA make enemies of their allies, even if that just becomes a Middle Powers Coalition that excludes both superpowers. So while China is building up significant naval power as quickly as it can - including landing craft and long range artillery essential to any invasion of Taiwan - an outright invasion has dropped from previously being Goal A (something they wanted to do within the next 10 years, as of last year), to Goal B or even C, where the new Goal A is to sow distrust between USA & allies, and either gain Taiwan in the divorce (Goal A), or at least divide USA from allies and become the strongest of 3 superpowers (USA, China, Middle Powers Coalition), following a global recession/depression.

Good point. They've been threatening to do that for what feels like a decade and have made no meaningful progress, besides massing thousands of fishing boats.

I'm so happy for all of us, we deserve this and more.

One government killed 40k of its own people in 3 days and banned the use of internet for 40+ days now While the other one should have fired and put on court the team that killed those innocent school children. I’d rather side with the lesser evil, thank you very much.

Trump and the boys will have more from market manipulation. F*** the rest of you I guess.

You are talking as if the US is one person. The US is composed of millions of people, and yes, there are winners. Those who made war happen are the winners because they’re making money. Everyone else gets fucked.

>Pillaging the entire 7 continents  Pretty sure my European country had nothing to do with that

Lol weirdo. America is learning it's lesson. World dgaf or respect us anymore. China Russia and Iran laughing at our floundering. But keep trying to convince yourself blockading the thing you wanted open a week ago is winning..

lil bro is clueless, wtf is a km boba? Name 5 EU countries without checking your Tiktok or your infinite rights

45k Americans die per year due to under insurance. Our president just kicked another 10 million off of Medicaid. Iran sucks, but that doesn't give the current government a pass.

So where is he?

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Lol, in what way is correcting incorrect people defending what's going on? I think the whole thing's dumb and should be resolved diplomatically, but I'm probably just a bot who doesn't actually have any opinions other than US good rest of world bad. I keep my posts and comment history hidden because freaks like you want to go through it and I'd rather you didn't. It's a feature for a reason :)

You clearly don't know exactly what you're talking about since you named multiple ships that are either not subject to the blockade or turned around/are just sitting there after they entered the Gulf of Oman.