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Trump's naval blockade crumbles after Iran-linked vessels breach barricade: report
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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Everyone is reporting on these ships making it through the strait which is still under Iranian control. Few seem to mention the part in the Gulf of Oman where the US is actually implementing its blockade. The poster child, Rich Starry, mentioned in the article, did this a few hours after clearing the strait, still far from the Arabian Sea:
That sure doesn't look like a ship breaching a blockade without incident.
It's too early to say how this will play out on a larger scale but for these specific ships a lot of reporting is really fucking misleading at the moment.
So you think a ship that was moving at maybe 5 knots/hr instantly turned around and in less than 30 minutes accelerated past 50 knots/hr?
I don't know where you're getting any of that from. It was travelling at 8 knots before and after the turnaround. The bit in the animation where it slows and drifts almost due south is actually marinetraffic not having AIS data for that period so it just interpolates between the two known positions. Maybe I should have made that clearer.
That turnaround period is also close to ~~3.5~~ (edit: 2.5) hours, not 30 minutes.
According to the same data the ship is now close to the Strait of Hormuz that it passed through yesterday; it seems pretty clear it did not get where it wanted to go.
How does anyone even believe anything that comes out of Trumps mouth anymore?
This is beyond funny, tbh.
I wonder if it's one of those cases of military refusing to follow illegal orders.
Man, that would be nice.
Look what Iran can do that Trump can't! Actually, so far everything is Iran doing things Trump can't, like win a war or stop a boat.
Alas, Iran treats their citizens like shit, so about the same give or take on some fronts. heh
Someone earlier said there are no winners in this war, and I'm really inclined to agree.
At leaat they didn't launch missiles at any middleschools in US.
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