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What is China going to do as far as the blockade? (Original Post) SamuelTheThird Yesterday OP
Trump and Hegseth aren't going to fuck with Chinese ships AZJonnie Yesterday #1
I doubt there will be a US blockade Torchlight Yesterday #2
They will ignore American warships. dalton99a Yesterday #3
Iran has been shipping more oil to China gab13by13 Yesterday #4
Stock Market ignoring Trump's blockade Johonny Yesterday #5

AZJonnie

(3,768 posts)
1. Trump and Hegseth aren't going to fuck with Chinese ships
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:32 PM
Yesterday

They'll probably make a show of holding up a tanker bound for the Kingdom of East Fuckistan, just so they can say Trump's insane ramblings weren't pure bullshit, but that'll probably be it.

Or maybe they'll decide to fuck with some ships travelling to/from a NATO country, just to start a new, major global crisis. Shift the media's focus from the complete shitshow that is the Iran War (and a subject who's 'ratings' are probably falling) to something that it'll seems like IQ47 might have some power over, like the negotiations on the impasse between the two NATO countries.

A problem, IOW, that he might actually end up being able to "solve" and therefore look like the "great negotiator" he incessantly and desperately presents himself as. Never mind that it'll just another TACO situation, and one that was entirely created by Trump's sickness and stupidity in the first place, but the M$M (esp. Fox, CNN, CBS, and WaZo (I think I just made that up myself, using beZOs, but could be wrong on that lol) will find a way to portray it as a masterful display of diplomacy

Torchlight

(6,915 posts)
2. I doubt there will be a US blockade
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:35 PM
Yesterday

Just more assertions, tantrums and idiocy from Mr. trump. My bet is over the next 16 hours, he talks bigger and tougher ands then a dramatic stand-down he immediately advertises as a victory.

Mr trump will show his belly. Again. And tell his idiots that it was all part of the Plan.

gab13by13

(32,466 posts)
4. Iran has been shipping more oil to China
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:57 PM
Yesterday

than before the war.

If Krasnov wants to starve Iran he is going to have to go to war with China.

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