Bitcoin price news: BTC adds to weekend losses on Trump blockade order
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"Effective immediately, the United States Navy ... will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," said the president in a social media post.
  • TwinTitans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58 minutes

    The US government doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Everyone’s had beyond enough of it already.

      • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
        1 hour

        Most likely this; he found another grift for himself to profit from.

    • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53 minutes

      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.pubEnglish
      1 hour

      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.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2 hours

    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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory