Trump Appoints US As Hermouz Guardian - For A Fee

Trump on Monday said the U.S. will take over the Strait of Hormuz — and will be reimbursed “at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped” for overseeing one of the world’s most critical oil passageways that has been at the center of the U.S.’s re-escalating war with Iran.

“We will become guardians of the strait,” Trump said during an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning. “We’re going to hit [Iran] very hard and keep the strait, and probably run it.”

Trump followed his Fox News interview with a Truth Social post that said the U.S. will reimpose a blockade on Iran.

“All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he said, but added that “as a matter of FAIRNESS, [the U.S.] will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.”

Trump said the “process and formation will begin immediately.”

“We guarded the strait for 50 years and never got paid for it,” Trump said on Fox. “We want to be reimbursed for this, for putting our people in danger.”

Iranian state media declared the strait closed “until further notice” on Saturday — a claim that Trump later rebuffed, telling NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the waterway was “open” and the U.S. “bombed the hell out of them last night.”

I'm sure MAGAs are happy.

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Patty81 · 41-45, C

We took the car keys from Grandma long before she got this demented

ElwoodBlues · M

Is that how tRump plans to pay the $300 billion he signed over in his Iran pact??

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

And the strait is closed ...again.
A couple of random thoughts on this, from the big picture perspective.
First: If non of the oil from exporters OUTSIDE of the Persian gulf shipped to America, but sold on the open market to anyone else, then the world wouldnt need oil to come through the Strait at all..
Second: In the longer term the oil is not the biggest problem. It ends up in most cases as a discretionary spend in peoples cars. The biggest problem is the Fertilizer not being supplied, that is going to cause large crop shortfalls next growing season globally. For the poor than means malnutrion or even starvation. And for the richer countries that means rising food prices for the forseeable future, A tanker of crude oil can be refined in a week. But crops cannot be replaced until the next year. And wars start over things like that..😷

CookieCrumbs · F

Every time I check the news, someone has declared the Strait of Hormuz open, closed, reopened, blockaded, negotiating, retaliating, or “sending a strong message.”

Then someone else says the exact opposite five minutes later. 🤦‍♀

At this point, following the Iran–U.S. storyline feels less like reading the news and more like watching a telenovela with 14 plot twists per episode.

I’m honestly losing track of who’s mad at whom today. 🍿😅

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CookieCrumbs · F

@Ontheroad
His administration claimed a few weeks ago:

“It’s an international waterway. No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on June 23 in Abu Dhabi. “That’s existing international law.”

I don’t know how that can happen. In order to support what he wants to happen would require substantial ground invasion or a risky naval operation. But that would put a lot of a risk on high US casualties too.

Ontheroad · M

@CookieCrumbs meanwhile back at home. Trump essentially gutted and made the Federal Election Assistance Commission a nothinburger.

Why? As stated by the White House "“the President reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America’s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted.”

In other words, they refuse to believe the lies he tells.

Ontheroad · M

@CookieCrumbs your problem is that you are trying to make sense of what doesn't and can never make sense.

This entire fiasco of a war that never need to happen - that, actually is the result of Trump walking away from the JPOCA

Logic has no room is his world and his adminsitration.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

I'm sure MAGAs are happy

I'm looking forward to what the MAGA (i.e. anti-america) members on here have to say about this

ViciDraco · 41-45, M

This is mob boss kind of stuff. "We started a turf war here, so now you gotta pay us protection money. Or else. "

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