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The low bar path out for Iran is not to charge US ships insurance. The people most likely to complain would not complain if America has an exception.
by ggm 4mo ago
The low bar path out for Iran is not to charge US ships insurance. The people most likely to complain would not complain if America has an exception.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoDoes anything America imports through the Strait travel on U.S.-flagged vessels?
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoThe US import very little from Hormuz on any ship. Most buy ers are in asia or europe.
- Zigurd 4mo agoIf the only recourse is to spend tens of billions on another bombing campaign, or even more on a land war, why would Iran be looking for a path out of anything?
- knollimar 4mo agoAmericans are fueled by spite, though.
- RobRivera 4mo agoI see
- SpicyLemonZest 4mo agoSpite against whom? Like most Americans, I have a number of grave concerns about the Iranian regime and the terrible things they've done. But on a personal level, Donald Trump has done a lot more to make me feel spiteful than either Masoud Pezeshkian or Mojtaba Khamenei have. I think everyone involved is well aware of this fact and it's going to continue to severely constrain Trump's options.
- bijowo1676 4mo agoAmericans have zero concerns about Iran, they care more about inflation and gas prices, it is evident in all surveys. the only people who have grave concerns over Iran are the ones who have monetary incentive to do so, or ethnical tribalism reason
- SpicyLemonZest 4mo agoIt sounds like you agree with me that Americans do not feel that fighting theocracy in Iran is a particularly high priority, and that people who care about it care more about domestic issues. So I'm not sure why you've chosen to express that in such a confrontational tone. Perhaps I've misunderstood something.
- bijowo1676 4mo ago>>Like most Americans, I have a number of grave concerns about the Iranian regime I didn't agree with "most Americans" part. This kind of rhetoric is false and is used to whitewash and launder war crimes and escape responsibility, for example for murdering 160 Iranian school girls in in Minab.
- SpicyLemonZest 4mo agoYou don't think most Americans would say, if you asked them about the issue, that the Iranian regime is bad and oppressive? I don't think this has anything to do with whitewashing or escaping responsibility for war crimes; obviously we're getting beyond the level of detail most Americans would know, but I personally find it quite easy to believe that both Ahmad Vahidi and Pete Hegseth should be arrested and sent to the Hague.
- bijowo1676 4mo agodo Americans care enough about Iran, to murder 160 innocent girls ?? there are many ways to phrase a question and make it seem like very low stakes, while it causes actual human lives on the other end of the globe
- epistasis 4mo ago[dead]
- yousif_123123 4mo agoIt affects global prices and sets a precedent against rules on international waters and freedom of navigation.
- Zigurd 4mo agoWhat does it tell us that current leadership in Washington lacks the credibility to make that argument? The tariffs and threats to sovereignty of our erstwhile allies have already damaged international norms at least as much as closing the straight of Hormuz.
- decimalenough 4mo agoThere is zero commercial shipping through the Strait with US flags, everybody uses flags of convenience.
- stubish 4mo agoThe US could also get into this racket then by offering US ship registrations at a very reasonable price...
- unmole 4mo ago> US ships What US ships?