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This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is now officially underway.
🔸 15+ US warships in position.
🔸 UK Maritime Trade Operations confirming restrictions on Iranian ports across the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Arabian Sea.
🔸 Trump threatening to destroy any Iranian fast-attack boats that approach: “using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea”.
Iran’s response: no port in the Persian Gulf or Sea of Oman will be safe if Iranian ports are threatened. The IRGC Navy says any military vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz is a ceasefire violation.
The ceasefire and the blockade are now running simultaneously. One of them will break first.
WSJ.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181828
So in short, they lost the war a few days ago, and are now trying to blockade… a blockade? Do they realize that this will not give them any of the things they want from Iran? Also, I thought all their military goals had been achieved, but this shows otherwise.
I think the explanation from Brain Berletic makes sense -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11306526/8063671
▪️This is the full implementation of Washington’s initial objective for waging war with Iran, an oil blockade of not only China but also much of the multipolar world;
▪️The US’ primary geopolitical objective is global hegemony and the only way it can achieve this objective is by dragging the rest of the rising multipolar world down relative to US power and wealth;
Ah, so letting the rest of the world suffer while they get to reap the profits afterwards (like during WWI and WWII) is the strategy. I wonder how successful it will be, though.
Hopefully, the US vassals from Europe/Asia and the Global South finally take a stand against the USA. That might help to throw the plan off.
Honestly, would not be surprised if WWIII starts after this (American fascism is horrifically toxic and will cause those unwilling to take the toxicity to do something about it).
Who says it hasn’t already started? World wars can start at different times in different regions. WWII is usually said to have started in 1939 but that’s just for western Europe. In the Pacific and for the Soviet Union it started in 1941. In China it started in 1936, or maybe even 1931 with the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese. The start of the SMO in 2022 might come to be seen retrospectively as the beginning of this world war. With the subsequent later activation of fronts in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran. Or maybe it started in 2014 in Crimea. Or 2011 in Libya and Syria. Ok those last two dates are maybe stretching it a little bit, but ultimately all these conflicts are connected by the fact that they are the result of the US acting aggressively in an attempt to preserve its declining hegemony.
Honestly I think it is more a move against europe. China can adjust to a sea blockade by using over land routes, protecting sea convoys, lowering their exports, and rejiggering their oil usage.
Europe has no plans and no resources other than a bunch of people. I think the plan is for usa to deprive them of their energy and convince them to go take West Asia and Africa with human wave attacks. Remember hegseth’s speech to europe? They want another crusade, just as hamfisted and poorly planned as the last ones, and this time they want it to go all the way to South Africa so elon can go back to slave labor emerald mining.
usa learned that the best way to be king is to make everyone else fight eachother. They don’t want to get in a confrontation with China. They want to make confrontations between everyone that pull China and Russia into them.