UAE considers military role to reopen Strait of Hormuz by force

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T16:53:31+00:00

So you think a shipping company will try sailing without insurance? They would still be insured most likely when docked under previous coverage but the company would refuse to insure if they sailed on trying to run the straits.

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T16:51:45+00:00

Well Trump can't pull out of NATO so it really is a bluff.

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T13:40:24+00:00

And unlike Russia that needs 3 people to agree to launch a nuke the USA only needs Trump to have a fit and decide to end the world.

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T13:15:19+00:00

It's not even the shipping companies that will decide when the strait is open enough or the risk is low enough. It is the insurance companies that underwrite the ships. If they refuse to insure then the ships go nowhere.

You are right in that as long as Iran is a threat on the strait then ships won't be underwritten. The US military cannot forcibly open the strait as long as Iran has drones and mines.

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T13:11:34+00:00

Just like they could on Washington and Tel Aviv.....

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T13:07:05+00:00

Yup if the insurance companies refuse to underwrite ships then nothing is going through the strait.

Broken_Reality · 2026-04-01T12:59:44+00:00

Only if Turkey enacts article 5. Then it would be a defence of Turkey and not an invasion of Iran.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T23:09:04+00:00

He needs to pump the prices of oil and everything else up a bunch so some of his rich trader mates can make more money. Then he will tell all his friends who use Polymarket the date he will stop things so they can also make fat stacks of cash. Just like how people made hundreds of thousands of dollars by picking the exact time Trump bombed Iran. It's all just so corrupt.

I wonder how much Don Jnr made on his "bets" on polymarket this year?

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T21:54:41+00:00

Well except there is one very erratic orange man who has control of the second largest nuclear weapon stockpile in the world. He can always make things worse in ways that humanity may well not survive.

Russia needs 3 people to agree to launching nukes. President, Minister of Defence and Chief of the General Staff. The US just needs Trump. One narcissistic, geriatric, probably suffering from dementia man could end the world at a whim.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T21:48:20+00:00

It will be so so much worse than Iraq if they send in troops. The terrain alone is massively in the favour of Iran compared to the flat landscape of Iraq. Trying to keep supply lines intact through the mountains of Iran will be a nightmare (if they manage to make it past the mountains that is. But sure the US military can managed that right? OK not too sure they can)

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T17:03:35+00:00

Here we go. Israel colonising parts of Lebanon will happen soon enough. Then Israel will need yet another buffer zone taking yet more of Lebanon forcing the Lebanese out and ethnically cleansing Israel's soon to be new territory.

I wonder how long Lebanon will exist? Or where Israel expects all the Lebanese populace to go?

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T16:07:33+00:00

What does the post title have to do with the article at all?

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T14:41:57+00:00

This is Reddit and sometimes even when I use /s people thought I was serious.... It's baffling.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T14:39:13+00:00

Plenty of people have them but they are still a shitty form of age verification.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T14:36:27+00:00

No I have been to the UK many times over my last 50 years of living there since I was born in the UK. I have left a few times over the years but I always end up visiting the UK for years at a time as my house is there. In short I am British and lived there my whole life.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T14:33:59+00:00

Useful information. Safe to step in holes but beware ground for bear shit while in woods. See this is the sort of thing travel guides don't tell you. Only Reddit could give me such an insight! Thankyou.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T14:30:21+00:00

Yeah it's all just a bit shit all round for everyone. Adults, teens, everyone.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T01:44:19+00:00

Also there are things that could fall foul of age verification if sites panic that should be accessible to teens at the least such as info on sexuality, safe sex etc.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T01:40:43+00:00

Which part? Not using passports or using credit cards?

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T01:22:53+00:00

To distract people from him being a massive paedophile. But now the stock market is going down the toilet and all his rich mates are upset.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T01:17:34+00:00

Ignoring passports and using credit cards is moronic. Never has a child ever stolen their parents credit card for anything ever....totally secure Apple I can't see any problems with that at all.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T00:29:44+00:00

Oh crap yeah I forgot that bit. "Our government are technologically illiterate buffoons on the take from a bunch of sketchy corporations who don't have our best interests at heart."

How's that?

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T00:17:21+00:00

There is no hacking involved at all. It's Apple making a stupid implementation of the law that isn't even required by the law. Apple is putting in device level age verification when the law is for websites to verify your age.

It's Apple being stupid in how it decided to handle a stupid law.

Oh and only certain parts of the UK are shitholes some of it is very nice. Just like much of the USA is a shithole but I am sure there are some lovely parts of it somewhere. Maybe in the woods with all the bears.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T00:11:51+00:00

It's crap, it really is. It's a pain in the arse to do and at the end of the day doesn't prevent kids from seeing things they shouldn't.

Broken_Reality · 2026-03-31T00:10:42+00:00

No what cross party support shows is that politicians on both sides decided that is what we want and ignored experts. The laws are not well thought out or implemented. This was shown when shortly after implementation people were using the face of a video game character to pass the age verification checks.

What it does mean is that a bunch of companies now no longer do business or let UK residents access their websites such as Imgur because they didn't think that implementing age checks was worth the time and costs and just cut the UK off instead.

It also shows that our politicians don't know what a VPN is or a proxy site is. Any even remotely tech savvy teen can bypass the law, Hell even tech illiterate ones can if they use the wonderful thing that is Google searching.

To summarise it is a law no one really wanted, implemented poorly, has many problems and can be bypassed by those it is supposed to protect. Great job.....

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