That guy is a colossal piece of shit.

It would be awesome if we just did it anyways. Tho Danielle Smith would run with it in the dumbest way possible.

Carney has made it clear his priority is establishing Canadian economic dominance. Perhaps when Canada holds more cards he will leverage them to intervene in Gaza. Perhaps.

I think they'd still honor it. Let's give it a shot.

I must be dense because, I don't know what the funny impliction is. Please explain it to me 🥲

Not until you cleaned up your political class, young man/lady/lizard!

Normally I'd say "isn't that a silly question?"

But considering the guys running this war are a drunk TV show host and an octogenarian TV show host with dementia, I could totally see them just bombing random ships for fun.

After all, it makes them feel like a big boy and it's the peasants' kids that get to endure the consequences.

The is is not going to blow up a Chinese boat for example....

Or maybe it will.

This statement was made live on BBC but the report seems to be true, here are some links.

https://news.meaww.com/fact-check-is-the-claim-iran-will-offer-hormuz-passage-to-countries-expeling-us-envoys-true

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-offers-any-country-free-pass-through-strait-hormuz-one-terrifying-condition-1784287

https://shafaq.com/en/Middle-East/Iran-offers-Hormuz-passage-to-countries-expelling-US-Israeli-ambassadors

Yes, we all want to kick the Israeli and US ambassadors.

Didn't we (the US) technically kick out our ambassadors? By sending them off to other countries?

By all means do so!

They're yoloing through the strait right now.

It's a lot of money and the number only goes up with time.

The situation is already well out of hand.

Cover the boat in iranian and palestinian flags, plaster it

No US-approved ship will ever have the balls to do that and piss of their overlord Bibi so they know to just trust, bet it would go damn smoothly and even insurance wouldn't bitch about it

It’s already closed. The threat and the resulting insurance pull is all that’s needed. https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/actuarial-warfare-how-seven-insurance

Trade ships will redirect at even the threat of being met with any confrontation. It is not worth the risk. Iran doesn't need a Navy to do this either. They need a couple dudes with AKs in a speedboat.

For more info. Just look at Yemen's blockade as an example.

Ships aren't gonna risk massive payloads. Insurance won't cover the loss either.

Iran can close the straight with like 2 dudes with RPGs.

Oil tankers tend to be a pretty risk-averse group. They're not going to risk getting hit and having their multi-million dollar cargo go up in flames, even if the risk of getting hit while transiting the strait is relatively low.

Considering it has signficantly affected oil prices. Yes.

A large amount of ships are currently stuck in the persian gulf. A significant portion of this is because they do not want to take the risk. The threat is enough to be effective but Iran is also enforcing it.

The Straits are 20 miles at the narrowest. they can hit ships with artillery. Plus they also have drones, which they've been using to hit over ten oil tankers since the illegal war began

I've been wondering the same thing.

It's a baller thing to say. But if they've lost air superiority (or even if it's compromised) then it doesn't mean much.

All you have to do is scare the money people.

They don’t need naval assets all they need to do is give the green light to Russian proxies who will lay mines and knock it out of action for years.

It appears to be true with fact checking here

"The claim is indeed true that Iran has offered 'full right and freedom' to transit the strategic waterway if Arab and European nations sever ties with the US and Israel, as per state broadcaster IRIB."

Gnu compiler collection??

The scrambled egg by altphoto