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To: House Atreides

As before, the Trump team is already doing this

The 20% fee was never intended to generate revenues, it was to motivate shipping to traverse the strait to keep shipping open

Shippers were making demands of the Trump Administration on the pretext of keeping shipping moving

Trump flipped the script on these people and suddenly the strait is perfectly ok to traverse without the need for US intervention


6 posted on 07/14/2026 9:13:56 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: rdcbn1

What are you trying to say?

Shippers were going to be MORE motivated if they had to pay 20% of the value of their cargoes to the US?


11 posted on 07/14/2026 9:42:03 AM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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To: rdcbn1

As before, the Trump team is already doing this

“The 20% fee was never intended to generate revenues, it was to motivate shipping to traverse the strait to keep shipping open

Shippers were making demands of the Trump Administration on the pretext of keeping shipping moving

Trump flipped the script on these people and suddenly the strait is perfectly ok to traverse without the need for US intervention”
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More spokeshole twaddle instead of accurate information.


16 posted on 07/14/2026 10:59:14 AM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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