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Global shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump’s Hormuz toll plan (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"toll"... Oh, so piracy. You know, demanding money from people in territory that isn't your own... Because you have more guns.

That's just being a pirate.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Classical pirates had more legal justification for what they were doing than this, since they operated in a grey area. This is just flagrantly illegal