Trump signals possibility of Iran naval blockade after talks collapse in Islamabad

"You can't fire me because I just quit!!!1!!"

He just yadda yaddaed over the most important part!

America doesn’t need their oil. We make our own. Strong American oil. Beautiful wells in Texas. They say $200 a barrel is the best thing that could happen. We sell oil, you know that? Incredible deal, we pump the same oil out of the ground and can sell it to Norway or the UK or wherever and make more money for the same product. Best thing that could happen to America really.

9/10: missing "with tears in their eyes"

Praise be to Ahah!

Double secret closed!

30 seconds into the blockade Iran will let Chinese ships pass through the strait. There is no world in which the US tries to militarily block Chinese flagged ships. An even funnier outcome would be Iran letting US allies pass through only for them to be blocked by the US. Let the US military prevent UK or French ships from navigating freely

Didn't he just say three hours ago that he had completely destroyed Iran's military? Are they throwing camel dung at the ships now?

He’s probably pissed that NATO countries who refused to send ships to help him open the Strait are being allowed through (quite possibly precisely because they refused to send ships). The fact that the Strait was only closed because he started a war of aggression without consulting with them, and his usual tactic of threats just makes him appear weaker by the day, requires a capacity for reflection that is beyond him.

He's threatening to stop Chinese ships, does he think China will not do anything? If the US Navy starts boarding Chinese ships to detain them in the Arabian Sea, China will start detaining American ships in their ports or in the SCS or Yellow Sea. They would be directly attacking China economically, China will start cutting shipments of everything to the US. And we already saw how effective that was the last time, that's what ended the trade/tarrif war that Trump waged a few months ago. This is so stupid, this will never work.

So out of all possible moves, this is the dumbest. First time ever for this guy.

And British, and European, and most especially French.

They don't have to fire on them. They just have to board them.

Well, there's that.

South Africa?

Any sort of obvious external attack, be it a blockade, strategic bombardment, or plain old boots on the ground invasion, always just creates a "rally around the flag" effect. People under attack will not revolt against the government, they will fight against the enemy attacking them. ... but it might work for us!

How would the us stop the ships tho? Shot them?

It's a stupid plan the moment you think of the implications. The world is not retaliating against Iran because everyone with a brain knows they'd do the same thing if attacked like that and that they are not the aggressors. They have the global moral high ground, so when the oil prices rise, the taxman in Japan or the farmer in Belgium will blame the US and Israel, not Iran. But if the US somehow actually stops the oil flow, it's only going to backfire on them, because they've already antagonised the entire world. And how would they enforce it in the first place? Iran can place a blockade by saying they've laid mines, and ships don't go through until cleared themselves. Will the US lay mines as well? Or chase oil tankers and shoot at them? How will this even work practically? It's just stupid.

yeah but the entire oil infrastructure is getting damaged in this war, and until it stops, there is not gonna be any rebuilding nor adding any other ways to build direct pipelines that bypass the need for the strait to be open. Same thing for other necessary things like fertilizer, etc. which makes it obvious that Trump and his team are coping and begging that this is solved within a few weeks, but it wont, because all Iran has to do is survive while the world starves for resources to win. What is most likely to happen is global recession b/c of lack of oil and gas, with high inflation but unlike covid, this will take years to fix because there is no cure to the BS happening right now. And once countries have to make up for the missing money and start to consider selling US bonds its when the house of cards will fall.

Your first error was relying on rando listnook posts for any credibility and at this point likely bots. Listnook has become almost unreadable.

It's a listnook post, not an economics class, and the current ongoing war didn't consider any of the current global scenarios, or they wouldn't have started it. Trump is not exactly a brilliant person, and neither is his voting base. The price of delivered oil is about $150 usd per barrel, almost 300% more than what it averaged last year, what does it mean?, record profits, as the supply that can no longer be covered by the middle east will have to come from somewhere else, even if its not enough to do anything for the american economy, and even if the average american will not only see no benefit but rather be affected by demand as its likely to increase inflation. You bet that starting next week Trump will start to bark that Oil revenue is expected to hit record highs thanks to the war he started as proof that they're winning by the situation. \-------- In regards to china, yes its a global economy, and a global recession will affect China too, but China has been preparing for this for years, and the outcomes, while bad for everyone, will hurt the US the most, thats what i meant to say. \----------- Russias refineries have been affected yes, again, this will hurt EU, Japan and SK, all which are US Allies, more than it will Russia or China.

It's a Churchill quote.

They just don't have it in them.

They’re also a dangerous combination of complacent, woefully uneducated, and / or hamstrung by things like health insurance being tied to their employment, where having a child or a broken bone can equate to bankruptcy.