Will the solution to the Strait of Hormuz be an acceptance of Iran's right to impose a toll *provided* they split it with Oman?
And will the Tangerine Tyrant be willing to let such a settlement be part of peace deal without trying to snag some of the fee for the USA?
And, if that money is used for Iranian reconstruction would that be something that would push a ceasefire into a peace deal?
Or are we just going to see more escalation between two powers unwilling to back down?
@ChrisMayLA6 Tolls are a non-starter. That would mean, that every single country on the planet, who controls a stretch of sea, would have to impose tolls to counter the iran/oman tolls.
That would be economic suicide.
>"But the U.S. has been doing it for free for decades!"
Yeah, f@ck that noise.
@EvilSandmich @ChrisMayLA6 This is a good point! First of all, I think that the world (hopefully) now realizes that Trump will just pack up and leave, and won't care about any tariffs as long as it does not affect the US.
So the key then, would be for iran to calculate how much it would cost europe to send ships there, and then make sure the tolls are low enough not to be worth it.
But given the value of all the oil that passes, and the cost of sending a few ships to sink iranian boats,
@EvilSandmich @ChrisMayLA6 the tolls would be very, very small.
Boats take a long time to build, so after some time, irans "navy" would be disintegrated.
They then have a bunch of Jawas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(F%E2%80%93J)#Jawa) and sand people who will scream and hurls bombs, and those could probably easily be fought with ukrainian, cheap, state of the art drones.
