The U.S. military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting Monday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and accepting a peace deal. Iran responded with threats on all ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, taking aim at U.S.-allied countries.

That set the stage for an extraordinary showdown that contains serious risks for the global economy and raises the specter that a ceasefire that is currently holding could collapse and the war could resume. Talks aimed at permanently ending the conflict — which began Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran — finished without an agreement this weekend, and there has been no word on whether negotiations will resume.

  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    US military is poised to TACO Tuesday!

    Or

    Enter Player 4 - China has joined the game!

    I love a good taco, but I also have a lawnchair and case of beer ready in case we kick of WWIII and I want to watch the impossibly bright lights.

    🎵🎶

    And the band played on

    As the helicopters whirred

    Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn

    My senses finely blurred burned 🎵🎶

      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        You misunderstand. If we get impossibly bright light fireworks, I don’t want to shield myself from them. Considering what comes next, I want to walk drunkenly stumble into the light and be free.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    So the US Navy is going to sink Chinese ships that cross through, huh? Genius move. That’s going to work sooo well.

  • Tarambor@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    It’s turned out to be a typical American military shitshow. Because the US Navy is scared about being attacked by the missiles and boats Trump announced they’d 100% destroyed in the beginning of March they’re actually not operating in the Strait of Hormuz but in the Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean which is a massive area far too big to remotely effectively police with the number of vessels the USN has.

    Add in GPS location spoofing the ships have been doing and it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.