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Ben Justman🍷 BenJustman@primal.net 4 days ago
Once I started reading Iran news with the perspective that Trump WANTS the straight closed to pressure China prior to trade talks in May, things started making way more sense. He'll be able to brag about the trade surplus with oil exports increasing too. Obvs tons of nuance, but that's my 2 sentence read rn.

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npub1zede...3hvt 4 days ago
China is the only one that's still moving tankers through at the moment after calling USA's bluff. Prior to the USA blockade France Japan India Russia Philippines Turkey Iraq and a few others were still sending tankers /cargo ships through the strait. Now it's only China. Reminds me of a Chinese meme about Trump doing everything in China's best interests and destroying the American economy because he's secretly a Chinese nationalist that wants to destroy USA.
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npub1kasm...ttwe 2 days ago
Once you realize that dealing with China is the main influencers on Trumps foreign policy, all his actions make sense. Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, all of these China is their cause.
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