It seems the threatened blockade only applies to ships that pay protection money to Iran. How the US is going to determine that, I don't know? My guess is anyone using the northern traffic lanes will be boarded and everyone else will be directed to the southern traffic lanes.
Where in his words does he specify that? I just dissected it and didn’t see that criteria, although later I do speculate it’ll shrink to that. But he hasn’t said it so far.
Yes. “Also”. That’s in addition to "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz."
J.D. Vance has announced negotiations have failed. The U.S. delegation is leaving.
US and Iran fail to reach agreement after historic peace talks in Pakistan, Vance says
Details of the negotiations remain scarce, but trilateral talks have been under way for hours in Islamabad.www.bbc.com
This administration works differently in case that has escaped you up to this point - deviating from norms, which stresses a lot of people. I highly doubt they’d waste time on the formalities of table shape or other useless niceties over this.
Listening to him last night, I had to think that he is using their own playbook against them, saying "We won", "We are blockading the Straits" and then next week saying something different is going to keep them off balance. Now the question is: "Is this an act or is he actually thinking this way?"
He’s ’muddying the waters’, but only because he has diarrhea and nobody will make him get out of the pool.
A US blockade over on the western side of the Indian Ocean doesn't actually give China a "CB" to invade an uninvolved country in the western Pacific, well clear of the eastern side of the Indian Ocean. It might provoke the Chinese into an illegal undertaking of their own, but no kind of excuse or justification.
By imposing a blockade of an international strait through which China receives essential fuel are they not in effect imposing a blockade on China?
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This is the bones of the issue, and it applies equally to Iran. A toll under threat still amounts to a blockade (conduct the thought experiment of what happens if the toll isn't paid).
Yes, but...it's the US's blockade, not Taiwan's.
They are in effect saying they will do that, yes. Super great idea. Well thought out, no likelihood of disadvantageous second or third order effects.
Well as you know when parsing the literary vomit that flows from that man’s social media or mouth, there’s infinity distance in accuracy and truth on one side and reality or even intent on the other. Nobody really knows what he meant but I’m guessing any number of countries will be sailing vessels right past the USN in either direction.
