Lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie.
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One Truth… everyone here is rooting for you.
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Nuclear dust? trump is clueless
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NYT liveblog:
Britain’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will call today for the complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and will oppose the idea of charging tolls on ships passing through the waterway. “No country can close these routes — it goes against the fundamental principles of the law of the sea,” Cooper will say in a speech, according to an excerpt released by her office. It adds: “The fundamental freedoms of the seas must not be unilaterally withdrawn or sold off to individual bidders.”
Sounds very nice in theory. The reality is different. Egypt charges a transit fee for passage through the Suez Canal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on ship type, and a major source of revenue. Turkey charges heavy fees to transit the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits.
The international border between Iran and Oman passes through the middle of the Strait, but Iran is now claiming a mine field that shifts both lanes of inbound and outbound traffic within its own international border, which is a clever move. It not only puts the ships within artillery range, but means they can claim 100% of any transit tolls instead of sharing it with Oman.
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A shining example of the small government that Republicans and conservatives so admire.
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Really, Reagan
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It got knocked out by an airstrike.
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Sure, Felon is clueless, but this pitch only works because most people don’t understand how simplistic this is. It’s an appeal to common sense to solve an uncommon problem. Uncommon in the most extreme sense.
If you got taken to the cleaners the way the First Felon has, wouldn’t you wanna distract from it and forget it?
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Really, Nixon / Agnew.
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And not using American steel from plants in the Rust Belt?
All while Kegsbreath is announcing changes to the Selective Service that he’s not actually empowered to make.
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Really, Adam / Eve
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Both of those are entirely internal transit. And in the case of the Suez, part of the fee covers maintaining and operating the canal.
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A canal is not a strait. It’s a man-made and maintained thing done by Egypt, with its own upkeep costs and shit to cover.
governed by treaty, the trade is free, they do mandate pilots and other safety measures.
Also, all within their borders.
No, we can’t get in the habit of just allowing rogue nations to claim to mine different bodies of water and blow ships up or pay a toll. It will not end well.
And the comparisons are just not valid.
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NYT liveblog:
Israel’s military has issued fresh evacuation warnings for Beirut’s southern outskirts, which were among the densely populated areas pummelled a day earlier by Israeli airstrikes.
So Netanyahu is not cooperating with Trump’s alleged ceasefire. No surprise since apparently he wasn’t involved in the negotiations. Another strategic blunder by Trump.
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Dust? Maybe he’s been reading all the Phillip Pullman novels.
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Bibi never adheres to any pact whether or not Israel was involved in the negotiations.
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