allegedly bound for China
That's a relief, for a second I thought this was totally unjustified
Um, isn’t this like an undebatably violent action? Who approved this with the full knowledge that it could literally lead to nuclear war???
They do it because they know their enemies are more reasonable and far less aggressive and violent than they are.
consent meme with Jesus and the couple but with America as Jesus and China and Iran are the couple
Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.
I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.
According to the replies and down votes I got the other day, this is either fine because the shipping company plead guilty or is fine because some US private equity technically temporarily owned the ship.
The headline is sensationalized. They called the shipping company and told them they weren't allowed to so they voluntarily sailed the ship to a US port.
FTA:
In April, the company operating the ship carrying the oil, Empire Navigation, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The IRCG was fined almost $2.5 million and was sentenced to three years of corporate probation. The company’s vessel, Suez Rajan Limited, transported the contraband to the US and “incurred the significant expenses associated with the vessel’s voyage to the United States,” according to the DOJ.
My mindset is clearly not suited for understanding US policies because, to me, if any other country pulled this stunt everyone would be rightfully up in arms but because it’s the US there’s only crickets.
I don't think it's really that complicated. You're right - if any other country pulled this stunt, everyone would be up in arms which is one of the reasons they don't do that. But USA? Bases all over the world, chokehold on the world's financial system, most pervasive propaganda apparatus in history. So nobody barks. Everyone bows their heads and pretends not to see they're being robbed blind. Does that sound like a mafia? Because that's what it is. Wiseguys strolling into shops and homes, taking what they want. And if you so much as raise your voice? Your house inexplicably gets burned down. And everyone will tut and say "Well you should've known better, that's the rules of the neighborhood. It is what it is"
The mafia analogy is probably the best I’ve seen to describe the current state of the world. It’s just learned helplessness.
Next ship Iran sends should be full of empty barrels and a host of booby traps. First jackbooted thug to step foot on the vessel activates the lot.
America then crying to the UN trying to justify invading Iran: "They sunk one of our ships while we were trying to steal their oil!"
a ship full of empty barrels rigged with looney tunes-style traps such as an empty barrel tied to a rope that causes a large anvil to fall on whoever moves it
death to america
alternatively, critical support to america for helping china lower its greenhouse emissions