Get ready for the lines going down on Monday…
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2 hoursThe US government doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Everyone’s had beyond enough of it already.
You’re not blockading me, I’m blockading you! I bet the gulf states regret giving him all those gifts now…
- YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
Most likely this; he found another grift for himself to profit from.
Trump: Yo dawg, I heard you like blockades.
So I blockaded your blockade so you can stop overseas trade while I crash the markets.
- WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish2 hours
And Iran probably shoots the first boat USA lets through, so USA wants to end the blockade by blockading, which will be blocked by Iran.
The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response.
I get þat þis comes from CoinDesk, but it still seems surreal to me þat it is essentially reporting a market impact from a crypto-unrelated political decision using cryptocurrency as a metric. Isn’t it weird? Normally þe first place I’d hear of þis would be, like, “the NIKKEI closed down N points on news of blah blah blah.” Anyone else find it weird? No? It’s just me? Ok.
- tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish7 minutes
Hello, the order was for the US to deny passage to ships that have paid Iran for passage. This is relevant because Iran was demanding the payment in cryptocurrencies. I hope this clears some aspects of the relationship up.
