'In just six weeks, the Iran War has shattered a system of global trade that has enriched people and nations for more than a century: the freedom to sail the open seas.
The Strait of Hormuz long functioned as an artery for the world’s maritime economy. But that 30-mile-wide waterway is now a monument to a new global disorder. As some 20,000 sailors effectively held hostage at sea digested President Trump’s cease-fire announcement this week—contingent on the complete opening of the strait—Iranian officials stressed they would determine which ships could leave and at what price.
The Tehran toll both was taking effect, as the U.S. Navy watched on, an admission that, at least here and now in the world’s oil corridor, America no longer rules the waves.
The Strait of Hormuz, sailors said, risks becoming a graveyard for a trading system so integral to the modern economy that most consumers, accustomed to cheap imports and three-day shipping, take it for granted. The price stands to be shouldered by consumers across the world, in inflation, scrambled delivery schedules and the snarls of a new arrangement in which Tehran can choose which countries access Middle Eastern oil.'
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"You can’t insult your way to the White House."
Pope Leo XIV has issued his strongest words yet on the US-Israel war on Iran, condemning the “delusion of omnipotence” he says is spurring the conflict.
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Leo, the first US-born pope, said over an evening prayer service in Saint Peter’s Basilica. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”
I don't see you donating your money to me. You're richer than me. Give me your money, socialist.
Once again, someone from a shithole blue zone thinks they have a very important opinion, thrown out from behind massive walls and heavily armed guards funded by printed money and extortion.
Pro-PRC shills get out of my timeline. I rebuke your socialist slavery in the name of my Self and my Money. Property ownership is a human right and I will not be guilt-tripped into paying taxes to people who think the party that runs on selling organs harvested without anesthesia from everyone who disagrees with them is entitled to a single grain of additional territory.
Fuck you, fuck your totalitarian party, and fuck your manipulative, sadistic, "sharing is caring" ideology. I've had enough of rich people telling me that making money is evil while they do nothing but take other people's money and mine by force for bullshit scams and then accuse me of all the exact shit that they're doing. You started this war and the US-Japan alliance is fully prepared to pay any price to bring you to heel.
Trump does what his Zionist masters tell him to.
They have no respect for you or America.
Stop bootlicking Zionists Zealots war criminals.
The Iran War is already over unless you want to resume the strikes on energy plants. Worry about your own front.