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Yeah, that happened this morning.
Right.
And Iran offered what seemed like a pretty straightforward trade, actually.
They said they would fully reopen the strait if the US ended its naval blockade.
A lot more.
He wants Iran to completely abandon its nuclear program as part of the deal.
So he is holding this really hard line, though, uh, he's also clearly calculating how American war fatigue is gonna play at the ballot box with the November midterms just weeks away.
Right, which complicates the whole negotiation.
Completely.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, is out there actively terrorizing the water.
They are explicitly warning commercial ships not to use the US-backed transit route.
They're actually broadcasting radio messages directly to the captains, right?
Yes.
Don't put your life in danger," and literally promising to destroy any vessel that crosses them.
Wow.
See, what you are seeing there is a deliberate attempt to make the cost of insurance and, well, the physical risk of transit so catastrophically high that the US naval protection just becomes irrelevant.
Because if the civilian captains refuse to sail the route...
Exactly.
The blockade functions perfectly without Iran having to fire a single missile at a US destroyer.
That is wild.
But the terrifying part is that this pressure isn't just staying contained to the Persian Gulf.
It is actively blowing out valves across the entire global security apparatus.
Yeah, that happened this morning.
Right.
And Iran offered what seemed like a pretty straightforward trade, actually.
They said they would fully reopen the strait if the US ended its naval blockade.
A lot more.
He wants Iran to completely abandon its nuclear program as part of the deal.
So he is holding this really hard line, though, uh, he's also clearly calculating how American war fatigue is gonna play at the ballot box with the November midterms just weeks away.
Right, which complicates the whole negotiation.
Completely.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, is out there actively terrorizing the water.
They are explicitly warning commercial ships not to use the US-backed transit route.
They're actually broadcasting radio messages directly to the captains, right?
Yes.
Don't put your life in danger," and literally promising to destroy any vessel that crosses them.
Wow.
See, what you are seeing there is a deliberate attempt to make the cost of insurance and, well, the physical risk of transit so catastrophically high that the US naval protection just becomes irrelevant.
Because if the civilian captains refuse to sail the route...
Exactly.
The blockade functions perfectly without Iran having to fire a single missile at a US destroyer.
That is wild.
But the terrifying part is that this pressure isn't just staying contained to the Persian Gulf.
It is actively blowing out valves across the entire global security apparatus.
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