cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9016144
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116913091653271692https://nitter.net/RapidResponse47/status/2076673834099298766#m
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5965399-donald-trump-guardian-strait-hormuz/
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cheeto already walked it back https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/14/us-strikes-iran-bahrain-jordan-uae-tankers
Iran was going to charge $1 per barrel to “hostile” nations who transit the Strait. At oil’s current price, that’s a 1.33% fee. Trump is implementing a 20% fee to ALL traffic. With BS moves like these, It’s becoming hard to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is the evil player here.
They were literally bombed during peace negotiations, it should be impossible to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is evil here lol.
That gotta be some transcendent level of entrepreneurship, not only maritime piracy, but in place they don’t even dare to close their warships to.
I would also like to see how they plan to enforce it on let’s say China or India or Russia.
The US will be reimbursed 20% of whatever it costs to protect ships? That doesn’t seem like an awesome deal for the US
Read it again. 20 percent of all cargo shipped.
But it’s a reimbursement and mentions the types of services it covers, so is the 20% value the cap on the reimbursement requirement?
You are expecting too much from Trump. His pattern is to proclaim some new policy with shaky justification and no prior analysis. At best, his thought pattern is, “20% sounds like a good number.” Then he lets the rest of his administration try to define something of substance around his public statements, hoping that he doesn’t contradict their attempts in the coming days.
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