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arrow-up1279external-linkTrump says US to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz immediatelywww.reuters.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squareThePantser@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 days ago No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas Does that mean they are gonna attack anyone that paid? Also when he starts charging does that mean they will destroy any ships right after they pay?
minus-squaredatendefekt@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWhat I don’t get is how are they going to prove that the ships paid toll? Especially if they are paid in crypto. Oh, who am I fooling. They’ll just harass anything coming through. Or maybe not. Maybe depending on which flag the ship flies.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThey’ll just stop any ship not coming to or from the US. Just like how ICE abducts everyone who isn’t white enough, citizen or not.
Does that mean they are gonna attack anyone that paid? Also when he starts charging does that mean they will destroy any ships right after they pay?
What I don’t get is how are they going to prove that the ships paid toll? Especially if they are paid in crypto.
Oh, who am I fooling. They’ll just harass anything coming through. Or maybe not. Maybe depending on which flag the ship flies.
They’ll just stop any ship not coming to or from the US. Just like how ICE abducts everyone who isn’t white enough, citizen or not.