Before this the only ships let through were the ones that were OKed by iran. You could be OKed by iran either if you were going there to buy and transport Iranian oil or if you paid Iran a huge fee. Either way Iran was making huge amounts of money on this especially since the oil prices were so high and they were the only ones able to export oil from the region.
So this recent move of blocking the straight completely is not a dumb move if one wants to weaken iran. There were headlines going around saying Iran was making more money during the war than before the war. Such a situation of course meant iran is in no hurry whatsoever to sign a peace deal with the US, especially not a disadvantageous one.
This new blockade will however highen oil prices even more now that not even Iranian oil can leave. But this will put pressure on Iran towards making peace deal. If a peace deal is met the strait can be completely open again and oil prices can start going down. That’s the thought behind it. We’ll see if it actually works. It doesn’t look like Iran is too desperate to sign a peace deal and why would they? They can probably handle not exporting oil for a longer time than Trump can politically survive constantly increasing fuel prices and inflation. And they know that fact. The Iranian leadership are crazy religious fanatics but they don’t strike me as stupid.
The Iranian leadership are crazy religious fanatics but they don’t strike me as stupid.
Even if they were completely devoted to their flavor of Abrhamic religion…
Ironically enough their prophecy requires Muslims and Christians to unite against the antichrist, and then Jesus (yes that Jesus) comes down and kills the antichrist and tells everyone to convert to Islam.
Then there’s a schism where Christians say Jesus saved everyone, and Muslims say that it was really God acting thru Jesus just like last time.
Like, that’s the most ridiculous part of it, that there’s still supposed to be beef after they both unite under Jesus against the antichrist.
And it’s why I fully have them cozying up to the fucking pope on my bingo card as my center square. Especially since their timeline has always been “over 2,000 years later”. They haven’t been kicking the can for centuries, this is when they always said it would happen.
If they want to bring about their end times, they’re gonna build a global multi-cultural opposition group to trump, because he clearly fits all the predictions for the anti-christ.
According to Islamic apocalyptics, having ascended to heaven and dwelled there for 2000+ years, Jesus will descend to earth shortly before Judgement Day, in the midst of wars fought against al-Masih ad-Dajjal ('The False Messiah") and his followers, to come to the aid of the Mahdi and his Muslim followers. Dressed in saffron robes with his head anointed, Jesus will descend at the point of a white minaret, in eastern Damascus, which is believed to be the Minaret of Isa in the Umayyad Mosque.[92] He will then greet the Mahdi and (being a Muslim) pray beside him. Eventually, Jesus will slay the Dajjal at Lod.[93]
Afterwards, he will “break the cross, kill the pigs, and abolish the Jizya tax”, according to a well-known Sahih al-Bukhari hadith.[94][95] “The usual interpretation” of this prophecy is that, being a Muslim, Jesus will put a stop to Christian worship of himself and in belief in his divinity, “symbolized by the cross”. He will re-establish the Kosher/Halal dietary laws abandoned by Christianity;[96] and because Jews and Christians will now all reject their former faith and accept Islam, there will be no more need for the jizya tax on unbelievers.[97]
Funny how the religion of the Trump’s supporters claim almost the same thing, but explicitly single out everybody turning against Jews, and of course Jesus is on their side.
Before this the only ships let through were the ones that were OKed by iran. You could be OKed by iran either if you were going there to buy and transport Iranian oil or if you paid Iran a huge fee. Either way Iran was making huge amounts of money on this especially since the oil prices were so high and they were the only ones able to export oil from the region.
So this recent move of blocking the straight completely is not a dumb move if one wants to weaken iran. There were headlines going around saying Iran was making more money during the war than before the war. Such a situation of course meant iran is in no hurry whatsoever to sign a peace deal with the US, especially not a disadvantageous one.
This new blockade will however highen oil prices even more now that not even Iranian oil can leave. But this will put pressure on Iran towards making peace deal. If a peace deal is met the strait can be completely open again and oil prices can start going down. That’s the thought behind it. We’ll see if it actually works. It doesn’t look like Iran is too desperate to sign a peace deal and why would they? They can probably handle not exporting oil for a longer time than Trump can politically survive constantly increasing fuel prices and inflation. And they know that fact. The Iranian leadership are crazy religious fanatics but they don’t strike me as stupid.
Even if they were completely devoted to their flavor of Abrhamic religion…
Ironically enough their prophecy requires Muslims and Christians to unite against the antichrist, and then Jesus (yes that Jesus) comes down and kills the antichrist and tells everyone to convert to Islam.
Then there’s a schism where Christians say Jesus saved everyone, and Muslims say that it was really God acting thru Jesus just like last time.
Like, that’s the most ridiculous part of it, that there’s still supposed to be beef after they both unite under Jesus against the antichrist.
And it’s why I fully have them cozying up to the fucking pope on my bingo card as my center square. Especially since their timeline has always been “over 2,000 years later”. They haven’t been kicking the can for centuries, this is when they always said it would happen.
If they want to bring about their end times, they’re gonna build a global multi-cultural opposition group to trump, because he clearly fits all the predictions for the anti-christ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam#Apocalyptic_literature
But at least theirs has a goal of peace on Earth instead of hell on Earth:
Funny how the religion of the Trump’s supporters claim almost the same thing, but explicitly single out everybody turning against Jews, and of course Jesus is on their side.
It’s also a state piracy which will not go well with China and others. Europe will stay silent, though, I guess.