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The US has condemned the closing of the strait.
Or at least, that’s what I was going to say. But in looking for quotes to support this, I begin to see your point. All I found was “we will kill you if you don’t open it.”
I guess Trump never even tries to claim moral high ground. It’s just “fuck you, pay me.”
Fair enough.
Right, they have condemned it on the basis of its bad for America. Hence being totally self consistent with fucking up Cuba because (presumably) it's good for America. It's a dickish worldview but not hypocritical.
I actually respect that the administration acknowledges the "iron law of force" - people don't want to face it, but that is the ultimate fallback medium of all international relations. As much as I don't like to agree with Hegseth on anything. Their mistake is thinking that because the law of force is the ultimate relation that cannot be eliminated... It cannot even be transcended temporarily to everyone's mutual benefit. The principle is true but they draw stupid conclusions from it, even by their own evil standards of success.