▲ 172 ▼ Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz (www.pbs.org) submitted 5 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44393674
[+] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 child) The title is really poorly punctuated I think. I think it's trying to say "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO/most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago It's a bad case of news title wording which is a holdover from newspaper days. There's little reason to economize on letters now and people could be writing proper grammatical sentences instead, but they don't. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) Most ships are.not "flagged" in the US, small obscure countries make money his way. Most ships are not heading to the US but eventually the energy will generate trade which will head to the US. US economy benefits a lot by having the US dollar as the world currency. "Petrodollar". By crashing the global economy with oil and an Idiot to blame for causing the mess, Iran can destabilize that whole economic balance. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 months ago "Pedodollar" haha. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 child) The title is really poorly punctuated I think. I think it's trying to say "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO/most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago It's a bad case of news title wording which is a holdover from newspaper days. There's little reason to economize on letters now and people could be writing proper grammatical sentences instead, but they don't. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago It's a bad case of news title wording which is a holdover from newspaper days. There's little reason to economize on letters now and people could be writing proper grammatical sentences instead, but they don't. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) Most ships are.not "flagged" in the US, small obscure countries make money his way. Most ships are not heading to the US but eventually the energy will generate trade which will head to the US. US economy benefits a lot by having the US dollar as the world currency. "Petrodollar". By crashing the global economy with oil and an Idiot to blame for causing the mess, Iran can destabilize that whole economic balance. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 months ago "Pedodollar" haha. permalink fedilink source parent