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allegorical oracle

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23. Sea and air are all we have to stop ships and make them pay up. It's a
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 08:00 PM
13 hrs ago

very expensive way to keep the Strait blocked.

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And any money collected will be syphoned to his family sakabatou Monday #1
100% dalton99a Monday #2
What could possibly go wrong? Taxpayers pay for blockades, he grifts the toll and the world will not stand for it Deuxcents Monday #3
The grifting never ends. FalloutShelter Monday #4
+1. The felon is a genius at grifting and corrupting dalton99a Monday #6
Certainly a Hall of Framer in those endeavors! Wuddles440 Monday #12
This is a clear violation of international law Johonny Monday #5
Trump is flailing Prairie Gates Monday #7
Watch oil prices and gasoline prices go up LetMyPeopleVote Monday #8
Oil and gas prices are being manipulated by Krasnov's pals, gab13by13 Monday #19
Sea and air are all we have to stop ships and make them pay up. It's a allegorical oracle 13 hrs ago #23
Piracy. miyazaki Monday #9
This is literally Caligula level delusion Cosmocat Monday #10
He's falling for Iran's strategy to drive up prices Renew Deal Monday #11
He started a war, and will now try to make allies and neutrals pay for it muriel_volestrangler Monday #13
So... send a ton of US ships in the middle of a chokepoint without establishing control of the chokepoint? SSJVegeta Monday #14
Something is telling me EnergizedLib Monday #15
He is more full of shit than a demented diaper wearing xmas goose ImNotGod Monday #16
Um....on what authority? purr-rat beauty Monday #17
Also, too, THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT men's national soccer team gets an automatic place muriel_volestrangler Monday #18
MaddowBlog-One day later, Trump abandons his plans for legally dubious tolls on Strait of Hormuz LetMyPeopleVote 14 hrs ago #20
The Navy will blockade it Bettie 13 hrs ago #21
I'm waiting here for the day when one of our ships get hit and soldiers die bluestarone 13 hrs ago #22
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