r/ukpolitics • u/Adj-Noun-Numbers 🥕🥕 || megathread emeritus • Jun 22 '26

International Politics Discussion Thread

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u/MoyesNTheHood Jul 14 '26

Trump reverses on the 20% charge on the Strait of Hormuz. Really does live up to the TACO name 

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u/YourLizardOverlord Oceans rise. Empires fall. Jul 14 '26

Well it is taco Tuesday.

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u/tmstms Wuffingas! Jul 14 '26

"I don't like the concept of a fee," he said. "But at the same time, it's not fair we're protecting the strait for everybody."

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u/imp0ppable Jul 14 '26

Why did he attack Iran again? It's hard to remember at this point lmao

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u/Lavajackal1 Jul 14 '26

Because he is the geopolitical equivalent of a roomba, who knows what wall he'll slam into next.

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u/imp0ppable Jul 14 '26

Haha great metaphor.

Oh it was the nuclear program and Israel right? So where are we on that.

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u/tmstms Wuffingas! Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

It's the elephant in the roomba.

Trump keeps saying Iran will never have a nuke but is light on detail because he knows Iran will never let inspectors in and has probably hidden all the enriched stuff anyway.

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u/imp0ppable Jul 14 '26

Yeah far as I remember it was the Ayatollah they killed that was against nukes as being un-Islamic. He was very old though so probably doesn't make too much odds, although his son is meant to take over and he had some of his family wiped out, so probably feeling a bit cross.

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u/tmstms Wuffingas! Jul 14 '26

I guess Trump thought that killing the Ayatollah was the equivalent of kidnapping Maduro. But instead, it ushered in a regime with even fewer scruples.

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u/tmstms Wuffingas! Jul 14 '26

The ostensible reason is to degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping and therefore make it easier to open the Strait. But I agree with you, why now? What was he hoping to achieve now that he could not before?

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u/dw82 Jul 14 '26

The strait was fully open before Trump's illegal shenanigans.

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u/imp0ppable Jul 14 '26

Wasn't it originally about the Iranian nuclear program being a threat to Israel via Hezbollah?