Posted on 04/07/2026 2:32:37 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, just hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to cease threatening the key waterway.
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LOL. What the hell did you expect?
You missed one. Russia, China, and Democrats.
It’s just a resolution...no teeth...
The axis of evil protects its own.
Did the DEI Pope have a say?
Who in their right mind would want it closed. Screw those murderous, sloppy bioengineering bat bioweapon chinkees
"After Russia, China and France, all veto-wielding countries on the 15-member Security Council, expressed opposition to approving the use of force, the resolution was revised to eliminate all references to offensive action. It would have authorized only 'all defensive means necessary.' A vote had been expected on Saturday.No matter how one slices this PR pie, there was no filling in it. And won't be the next time around either."But instead, the resolution was further weakened to eliminate any reference to Security Council authorization — which is an order for action — and limit its provisions to the Strait of Hormuz. Previous drafts had included adjacent waters."
Apparently the Trump administration did.
and the left are siding with Russia, who ever thought that they would side with Putin
There is an isthumus betwwen the persian gulf and the sea of oman. it is about 700 feet wide at a place called maksar, and apparently is occupied by a campground at ~70 feet above sea level at its highest point. if the maps are correct, why not just quickly blast a sea level water passageway through the isthumus at this point to allow ships to pass, at sea level without locks, entirely within the territory of oman?
(since this seems like an obvious solution then i imagine that there is a good reason that this has not been done... i just do not know what that reason is...)
I can see Russia going with the Veto . More oil sales at higher prices for them. But China? With all that oil that goes to them through that strait? Is it just because they consider opposition to the United States a higher priority? In the long run having that strait shut down helps the world because it denies Islamic countries profits from oil.
Just one more reason that Trump should expel every U.N. Representative from U.S. soil and burn the U.N. building to the ground.
since my previous post, my shaky memory has reminded me that one possible reason that a hormuz bypass canal has not yet been proposed is that ships transiting it would still be vulnerable to missile attacks from iran. that sounds reasonable, but the proposal would still have the advantage of forcing iran to be the aggressor outside of hormuz, while allowing other ME nations to control iranian prosperity via shutting down hormuz to iranian traffic, and preventing exposure of US forces to overt combat and loss of life.
ideally, also, a relatively peaceful construction project would have an appeal to trump over a protracted ME war.
This 1000%
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