He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane. Mark Stone analyses the Truth Social post.

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    7 hours ago

    They can start all the wars they want, tell me aliens exist, send out checks, it doesn’t matter. I’ll never shut the fuck up about Epstein and these pedos.

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    TACO-in-chief! As well as being the best friend of the pedophile Epstein. Seems Operation Epstein Fury is a failure.

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    He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane.

    Yeah that’s why nobody wanted to touch this mess with a 10 ft pole.

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    Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran’s leader goes “anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else’s problem now.”

    That’s not how war works.

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    Retreating. The word he is looking for is ‘retreat’. Also known sometimes as ‘surrender’.

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    This is not how wars work. Considering the nature of ICE, it would be easy for Iran to embed operatives within America, and no one would be able to tell the difference.

    The American-Iranian war will drag on for at least a decade, even if open combat was ended today.

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    If you’re iran, what’s stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?

    Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.

    Make an exemption for oil traded in non-usd for maximum fun.

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      If you’re iran, what’s stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?

      Literally nothing. Trump proved time and time again that you can be the most brazen scumbag on the planet and suffer no consequences.

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      Basically incompetence. Iran (and Houtis) have been hitting ships they clearly were not supposed to hit. It is not necessarily easy to figure out which ship is which. So even ships that are allowed by Iran are scared of crossing rn. Also, mines don’t discriminate.

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      This is current state of shipping in SoH. Everyone who goes through has some deal with Iran to pass safely. Iran has offered an “Islamic assembly” (UN/NATO like) peace deal for neighbours. Backup plan if GCC does not ally with Iran is to keep the toll system.

      Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.

      One ship reportedly paid Iran $BritishPounds2B to go through. $ and Euro are worthless to Iran because of corrupt banking system. All payments in CNY already.

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        If youre ona phone keyboard holding “$” should give you other currency symbol options. £, €, ₩ etc. Otherwise the usual syntax to denote pounds is to leave off the symbol and append GBP. Eg £2B or 2B GBP are easier to read and easier to type.

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    Tl;dr: we’re fucked in the short run, but the world won’t forget this in the long run.

    ELI5: Isreal is screwed.