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News & Current Events Apr 18, 2026 at 10:41 PM

US military prepares to board Iran-linked ships in coming days, WSJ reports

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TerraMindFigure Apr 18, 2026 +42
What about Chinese ships? Would American soldiers board a Chinese ship if it violated the illegal blockade?
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xSaRgED Apr 18, 2026 +20
The USN has demonstrated clearly that they do what they are told.
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tundra445 Apr 19, 2026 +6
The vast majority of oil that China gets from Iran is not on Chinese flagged ships. This is done on purpose to avoid risk of any kind of secondary sanctions. I think people are overstating this scenario. China gets more of it's oil form UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, etc, anyways.
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +1
Without knowing for sure I think you're correct but here's a counterpoint: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chinese-oil-tanker-breaks-us-202508503.html
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Leraldoe Apr 18, 2026 +11
No worries Trump will quickly back off of this
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lateread9er Apr 19, 2026 +3
Two weeks…
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furryfrog02 Apr 19, 2026 +1
My guess is by....Tuesday.
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Leraldoe Apr 19, 2026 +6
Far more likely just before the markets open Monday
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NoVax-Djocovid Apr 18, 2026 +5
If it’s linked with Iran, I assume so.
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MSTRBASS2000 Apr 19, 2026 +6
Chinese ships have already been blocked and lead away...nothing is getting bye the u.s destroyers blockading the straits....nothing
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026
Chinese ships are being blocked, but what happens if one refuses the USN ask to turn away? Will the U.S. be boarding or shooting at Chinese ships?
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jamie9910 Apr 19, 2026 +1
The ship will be bordered yes? The US navy blockaded the Soviet Union at its peak. It blockaded imperial Japan (pre war) It can blockade Communist China.
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +5
When did the U.S. blockade the Soviet Union? And I think your example of the U.S. embargo (...and embargo, not a blockade - big difference) is a bad example of things going well.
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jamie9910 Apr 19, 2026 -5
Cuban missile crisis. The US was prepared to go to war to enforce a blockade vs a far more formidable navy than China currently has.
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +1
Yeah, that's not a blockade of the Soviet Union so the stakes are much different. Framing that as a blockade of the Soviet Union is just dishonest. Even still, that's a terrible example. During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviets had a submarine nearly launched a nuclear missile. The blockade of Cuba was the closest humanity has ever come to a nuclear war. Edit: typo
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jamie9910 Apr 19, 2026 -6
China better study the Cuban missile crisis then? Because the US blockade is in place and any country including China risks armed conflict if they try to test it. Does China want to risk a war, or a potentially human life ending nuclear exchange? That’s a question they have to answer, for all our sake’s I hope they act logically and responsibly.
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jaa101 Apr 19, 2026 +5
> China better study the Cuban missile crisis Because DJT is like JFK?
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +3
China has many non-military options available to try to punish the U.S., what would the U.S. do if China captured an American ship in return? Much less, what do you think they would do if China cut the U.S. off from many of the critical goods and materials that China is relied on for? What if China dumped U.S. treasuries on the market and caused interest rates to sky rocket?
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beginner75 Apr 19, 2026
Any armed conflict arising from the blockade will definitely benefit Trump because it will prove his point.
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Scriefers Apr 19, 2026 +1
Yes America will. And China wants none of that smoke. They are way smarter than that.
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +4
China has other ways of responding outside of direct military confrontation, they control global trade of several critical goods and materials.
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Scriefers Apr 19, 2026 -2
Yes and they rely on the continued trade of those critical materials and goods. China’s economy is in not ideal shape to be waging h******* economic war. And again, they are smarter than that, and know better than to do that.
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TerraMindFigure Apr 19, 2026 +3
China's economy is doing great, and China needs the U.S. much less than the U.S. needs China.
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Scriefers Apr 19, 2026 -3
I’m jealous of you.
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shootinjack Apr 19, 2026 +1
Why wouldn’t they? The boarded Russian linked ships in Venezuela
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Frank9567 Apr 19, 2026 +5
China has a lot more heft. For example, China might well board US flagged merchant ships in the Strait of Taiwan. With the US Navy bogged down in the Middle East, a Chinese fleet could potentially do that. How about blockading US ships transiting the Panama Canal? How about threatening to do that, but without actually doing it, and causing insurance costs to cripple US overseas shipping? Pretty easy to cause major disruption that would also make the US look like the Keystone Cops chasing Chinese fleets. Less than a third of the way through his term, and the US is becoming a big joke.
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shootinjack Apr 19, 2026 +1
China does not have a navy designed to project power in South America. The US still has a carrier strike group in South America. Any blockade on the Panama Canal would be broken immediately.
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MSTRBASS2000 Apr 19, 2026 +1
Yes, every ship has been warned,that lethal force will be used if they try to dock in iran
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pirategirljess Apr 19, 2026
whatever whim daddy trump has at the moment
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bestmaokaina Apr 19, 2026 +5
I think my pizza arriving in more than 30 minutes has a better chance of happening than this lmao
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BOPSurfcasting1 Apr 19, 2026 +3
Now you've just got me thinking of ordering a pizza tonight.
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physicsking Apr 19, 2026 +11
Can we stop posting this until it happens? Or anything happens? I'm tired of all this saber rattling.
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DemosthenesOrNah Apr 19, 2026 +2
clicks = $ when only engagement matters and next quarter profits are the sole motivator...no. it'll continue
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Television_Powerful Apr 18, 2026 +8
If any dare to pass the strait..
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MSTRBASS2000 Apr 19, 2026 +3
The more Iran acts like they r in charge, the more the u.s takes away....irans losing 5 hundred million a day on lost oil sales and the u.s blackaded the straits nothing hits Iran docks Soon the oil spigots will have to be shutdown too due to oil storage limits and that harms the entire oil industry cause once spigots r shut there is no guaranty.of them coming back on
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Boysoythesoyboy Apr 19, 2026 +2
Funny enough thats less than us has been spending a day for the operation. For the oil spigots, that is a real issue, which is why they are unlikely to turn them off. They can just burn excess or pump storage it into reservoirs. Keeping the oil flowing long term is worth more than their current stores.
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MSTRBASS2000 Apr 19, 2026
That not how it works...Iran has about 10 days of oil storage....once it's filled the spigots go to be turned off...no guarantee oil will pump again when you turn on the spigots again
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Boysoythesoyboy Apr 19, 2026 +1
You dont have to turn it off, you can just spill it out, ot more likely burn it off. Or you can pump current storage into oil reservoirs. The point is that there are a bunch of alternatives to just turning them off
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Necx999 Apr 19, 2026 +1
They also have a pipeline outside the strait. They don’t need to ship anything on the inside with the pipeline on the outside. Sure it reduces the % of output but it don’t cripple them.
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Frank9567 Apr 19, 2026 +2
That works with rational actors. Are you saying that the Ayatollahs are rational? Because, if they aren't, then your scenario means looking at higher prices for gas for years. It also means that everything from ait tickets to farm produce needing fertiliser becomes way more expensive. The Ayatollahs don't care if your gas, food, travel goes up 20%. Take a look in Afghanistan to see how much the religious leadership cares how poor they become. Plus, when the US has someone in charge playing 4 dementia chess, the rest of the world shouldn't operate on the premise that the Ayatollahs are going to be the adults in the room.
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MSTRBASS2000 Apr 19, 2026 -3
What ayatollahs ...they r all dead already, the us killed all of the 1st line leaders in 2 days, once Iran named replacements, they were all killed too then irgc named new leaders again ,next day all dead again What's left after 3 layers of leadership were eliminated...we r now dismantling irgc piece by piece...
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Frank9567 Apr 19, 2026 +3
Sure. And that's what people said about the Afghani leadership too. How did that go? And, of course, the Straits of Hormuz are still closed. That's not what winning looks like. That's counting your chickens before they hatch.
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marawki Apr 19, 2026 +1
The son is still alive, very wounded, but alive and involved in decisions.
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SanDiedo Apr 19, 2026 +1
Delulu. Just admit USA has no plan and leadership. It's a "drunkard's work" - morons and drug addicts are in charge, fumbling and stumbling. Nothing good ever comes out of it.
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Chance_External_4371 Apr 19, 2026 +1
Thou shall not pass! Unless you answer 3 questions correctly
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Pidgeonscythe Apr 19, 2026 +1
The Pirate Age
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thefunkybassist Apr 18, 2026
They might just confiscate a couple of oil tankers for pocket money / private stash / sell for uncle P. 
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ViolettaQueso Apr 19, 2026 -1
Someone’s gotta get something to fill the 121 empty tankers Trump bragged about letting thru and sending on their way to Louisiana to fill up with US oil for the world. We don’t have it. His lies are catching up with him. That medical ship never did arrive in Greenland to emergency treat all the really sick Greenlanders who are ignored by their mother country… Why does nobody have it in them to hold him accountable???
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TangoPRomeo Apr 19, 2026 +2
Because the entire two-party system is broken and corrupt. Every eligible voter clearly needs to vote blue to fight back what the GOP has become. But once this crim is out of office, we really need to reevaluate who we are putting into offices at all levels of government.
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ViolettaQueso Apr 19, 2026
Agree. Also we’ve gotta close the loop holes it seems they’re using AI to find to poop on the constitution.
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Scriefers Apr 19, 2026 +1
[There’s a whole convoy of VLCs on their way to America right now. So many so that America won’t be able to utilize them because they simply don’t have the infrastructure to move that much oil. America has the oil, its ports are the saturated limiting factors](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cGQVhnP0POE) [The hospital ship never made it to Greenland because Greenland quickly refused receiving it. And it couldn’t have made it into any Greenland ports either, it’s too large. And it’s in dock in Alabama getting maintained before that shipyard is undergoing reconstruction in May](https://youtu.be/QlxipwQR7Fo) Put more effort into your understandings.
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Fearless_Tie5751 Apr 19, 2026
Pirates
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BeardoftheManwhore Apr 18, 2026 -5
A secret service agent could the the funniest thing..
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Spinoza42 Apr 19, 2026 +1
What if it's an actual Iranian ship? Will they board that too? That's almost too good an opportunity for Iran to ignore, right?
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