DUCK SEASON! FIRE!
Iran. Nuff said.
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Um......I....I don't have anything.Round and round and round we go... looks like Trump got jealous of the Iran tolls.
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And yes, it's real.
U.S. restarts blockade and strikes Iran as Trump seeks control of Strait of Hormuz
As the U.S. restarts its Iran blockade and carries out more strikes, President Trump has called off a planned 20% fee on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.www.yahoo.com
Ironbite-just.....I'm done.
Depends, has he bought any oil stocks lately?
Trump gets 20% off the top.
I’d be very interested to see the muted response to this toll compared to the Iranian one. BOTH are wholly illegal but I have a hunch you aren’t going to have the whole world lining up to condemn the US doing it…even though they should complain because it’s bullshit.
There was a negative response from "the whole world" toward Iran for blockading the Strait? I would have expected almost every country to direct their ire towards the US since the whole thing was our fault. Well, ire from the countries whose own imports were jeopardized by the blockade, and just mockery from the rest.
I wasn't even aware the Jones Act was a thing before this article. (FYI, it's basically a 100-year-old law requiring domestic cargo to go on US crewed and operated ships except in national emergency.) Putting it here as this is supposedly caused by the Hormuz thing(which looks to just be an excuse, based on their research)
The Tanker Nobody Protested: On paperwork, patriotism, and the ancient American art of shouting at the wrong boat
America finally protested a Jones Act waiver tanker. Shame it was the clean one. The ship with the unpaid crew and 38 deficiencies? Not a word.
www.keystone-collective.org
A Top Mamdani Official Tried to Meet with Iran
Ana Maria Archila, Commissioner for International Affairs, almost took a meeting with the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the U.N.
www.city-journal.org
Iran killed 40,000 people in one month, is currently sanctioned by and at war with America, and Mamdani's team wanted to try to build their own foreign policy with it.
You know, my main rebuttal to complaints about Mamdani's views on the Middle East was, who the hell cares, he's running for mayor of New York, not the president of the whole-ass country, anything related to this issue is way outside his jurisdiction.
That is, however, contingent on him knowing that.
That is, however, contingent on him knowing that.
There's probably more than 1 iranian living in new york city. He might just finding venues to advocate for their disapora.
Feels like small potatoes when the Houthis attacked two Saudi tankers to try and close off a shipping route and Iran rejected a hand delivered ceasefire proposal from the Iraqi Prime Minister. Kind of wondering how soon Trump capitulates again, this time with an even bigger reconstruction fund.
But since it was brought up, reading some of the articles it's kind of weird how the Madmani admin's response is just we don't know what she was doing. No actual explanation or accountability for trying to foster relations with a bloody theocracy. Just whoops, she's new here, now about those ice cream regulations...
But since it was brought up, reading some of the articles it's kind of weird how the Madmani admin's response is just we don't know what she was doing. No actual explanation or accountability for trying to foster relations with a bloody theocracy. Just whoops, she's new here, now about those ice cream regulations...
They say Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event but have they seen:
www.cnbc.com
Ukraine strikes Iranian vessels in Caspian Sea, Tehran accuses Kyiv of 'hostile and criminal act'
The latest attacks by Ukraine, combined with Saudi military strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, represent a widening of the Middle East conflict.
www.cnbc.com
The third in the trilogy is usually the most disappointing.
The Pentagon Now Counts the Iran War in Two Tables
The Pentagon's casualty database now carries the Iran war in two parts. Operation Epic Fury holds 14 dead and 417 wounded. A second table added on Saturday 25 July holds four more dead and 207 more wounded from 7 July. The administration treats each as carrying its own War Powers deadline.
fault-line.io
So they're claiming the ceasefire let them restart the clock on how long they can do things without congressional auth.
One other thing that jumped out at me, unrelated to the Iran aspects, is the 2002 authorization of force against Iraq post-9/11 was only repealed this past December?
Not directly Iran related, but in reaction to all that:
No paywall: https://archive.is/04cdu
Some points and speculation I saw related to this:
No paywall: https://archive.is/04cdu
Some points and speculation I saw related to this: