The president added that he has “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”

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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This is a big misstep of an escalation, no?

Always has been

In all seriousness, is he expecting the US Navy to fire on civilian vessels? I'd bet we're nearing a point of mutiny on some ships

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's what they've been doing inthe Carribean

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    From a geopolitical perspective, attacking a Venezuela-registered fishing boat is fundamentally different from attacking a Chinese- or Indian-registered oil tanker. Most of the boats they've attacked in the Caribbean were actually stateless and weren't registered anywhere

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