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unyttigfjelltollast Wednesday at 2:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

> play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Yeah, the game Iran is now trying to play is called “Pipelines and Pirates”.

There’s actually a ship deployed to the region right now named after the standard US response to this game, the USS Tripoli.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War


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Cyph0nlast Wednesday at 2:37 AM

Any idea why they decided to shutdown the strait for the first time in decades? Or did they just suddenly wake up one day and decide that piracy is their calling?

And that deployed ship will do nothing. The only way forward is a negotiated agreement.

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lolcopedopelast Wednesday at 2:37 AM

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