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@SGTWipper1Each Perfect PFT(300) at the end of my 4 yr enlistment in the Corps without wrecking my body.

What was the proudest moment of your Military service?

@DailyIranNews Never tired of winning. Even with NATO countermeasures U.S. gains relative advantage •Less dependent on imports •Strong domestic energy •Tariffs protect industry

U.S. is trying to lower oil prices by preventing ships go through the closed strait of Hormuz which is already closed. Thanks for the help, we don’t need it. Bab Al-Mandab is next. Say hello to 200$+ oil.

@BuzzPatterson Annoying, not crippling for NATO but quietly helps Russia

The US blockade does a few things. Among them: 1) it forces NATO to get off their ass. They need that gas. 2) US’s oil exports just got a huge bump. UN is strangled and so is Iran.

@NewsWire_US They will form the human chain in the ocean.

IRAN SAYS IT WON’T ALLOW U.S. BLOCKADE OF HORMUZ STRAIT

@mb_ghalibaf Let them drive Teslas

Enjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called 'blockade', Soon you'll be nostalgic for $4–$5 gas. ΔO_BSOH>0 ⇒ f(f(O))>f(O)

@johnarnold Let them drive Teslas.

@johnarnold Why would they load there ships if there is a blockade? Load them somewhere else.

So what happens when a Chinese ship is trying to exit the Strait? The US is going to block it? The Chinese will allow that to happen?

@TomLondon6 Atlantic Basin swing suppliers with untapped potential.

I’m confused If Trump now blockades Strait of Hormuz that will mean LESS oil and gas on global market which means WORSE global economic crisis What am I missing?

@Nostre_damus I’m starting to like this blockade more than ceasefire. The Basij can human chain all they want around the power plants and bridges. We’ll wait for them to start one in the ocean.

Wait a minute, is Trump’s idea to blockade the Strait and then end the blockade to pump the markets It’s so stupid that it might just work

I want to add my toll too. Can we squeeze in one more?

@McFaul For whom? Only bypass for Iran is the tiny Goreh–Jask pipeline which be blockaded as well. Others Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, or Bahrain are SOL without a bypass. U.S. and Atlantic Basin countries become the swing supplier thanks to Iranian thirst for a nuke.

So we criticized Iran's closing of the Strait of Hormuz as being illegal and hurting the global economy, but now we are going to help make it even tighter? Hmmm.

@IRAN_GHANA Gulf of America seeing all those VLCCs arriving

BREAKING: IN A BRAVE MOVE, THE US JUST ANNOUNCED IT'S BLOCKING A STRAIT IT'S BEEN BLOCKED FROM. Read that again.

@jacksonhinklle You got in reverse he is opening the strait and the Basij are sitting ducks. Other than that yeah logistics sucks.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Is Trump aware that, in order to enforce a naval blockade, he needs an actual U.S. Navy fleet in the Persian Gulf, which means putting American sailors as sitting ducks in Iran’s backyard?

@theepicmap Love Brookings

Why are there basically no major cities on this stretch of the US West Coast?

@IamAITheArtist @johnkonrad Nice with an added Dubai vibe youtu.be/haCN6Fc5Qtw

@johnkonrad We had to make a song about all of this. Hormuz: a song for the moment.

Forty days of panic by everyone in the shipping industry and the vast majority of media and academic military “experts”, and for what? The experts said the Navy was scared to enter Hormuz. They called prudence weakness and restraint failure. They reiterated and published freak outs from social media. They were wrong. Two U.S. destroyers just made four transits through the Strait. So much for the hysteria and all the hand-wringing about American decline. And the stories I’m hearing from the 🇺🇸 sailors at sea is one filled with real heroism. Yes, the US Navy has real problems. Yes, our Merchant Marine does too. Yes, Congress can’t even pass the SHIPs act. Yes, mistakes were made. Yes the process of clearing the mines will take time. Yes we are still a long way from normality. But our overwhelming advantage over every other Navy on Earth is the BIG story. Here. No other Navy could have accomplished this with so few casualties. None. To the over the top media and hyperbolic Europeans and all the doomers: shame on you. And to Beijing: recalculate. Bravo Zulu to Admiral Cooper and the joint force and every American serviceman in the Middle East. We have a long way to go but this ship is making way in the right direction.

@TheIranWatcher It’s an official NATO article 5 that is above the Tropic of Cancer problem now while China just deployed 100 more ships to bridge a power vacuum in the South China Sea with USS Lincoln away in the Middle East while cvn 76 and 70 are in pacific ports ready for combat.

🚨 The negotiations in Islamabad were never meant to succeed, they were meant to prove that they couldn’t. From the start, intelligence from the CIA and Mossad showed the divide with the Islamic Republic of Iran was not negotiable. This was not a gap to close, but a clash of fundamentals tied to the regime’s survival. The 21-hour talks only confirmed it. Long sessions, shifting positions, and no movement on core issues. The gap became clearer, not smaller. Sending JD Vance was part of the strategy. As someone skeptical of war, sitting across the table and seeing it firsthand removes the argument that better diplomacy could have worked. He said it plainly afterward. There were real discussions, but no agreement, and that is worse for Iran than for the United States. This was not a failed negotiation. It was confirmation that no real deal was ever possible.

@ArthusMalus @amdshorn @TheBookBrain_ @PeterSchiff Revolutionary suicide with peer pressure built in from the Basij

@amdshorn @TheBookBrain_ @PeterSchiff Not if they're also used for military purposes.

So the U.S. delegation is already headed home without a deal. Since Trump is unlikely to follow through with his threat to end Iranian civilization, what's our next move? It seems that we are in an even weaker negotiating position now than we were before, and Iran knows it.

@PeterSchiff US tried to get concessions on Hormuz and nuclear material removal… blocked demands for concessions.

@BenjaminBadejo Depends on how much Trump will tolerate but hell to the no overall.

We’re not going to get a full two-week ceasefire, are we?

@sentdefender Everyone is leaving.

@sentdefender No presser

The presser with U.S. Vice President JD Vance is set to begin shortly.