Yeah this was my thought too. IMO this is the navy choosing to do a less illegal and insane thing than they had been ordered to do, correctly sumising the CiC would not tell the difference.
But like, is the USN even blocking the ports? Or did they find out that they were supposed to be blocking the ports at the same time the rest of the world did, when it was Twuthed, and now they’re also scrambling to figure out WTF it means.
So yes, to your point – he said he was going to “blockade the straight” - and we’re all here discussing the legality of blocking the straight versus Iranian ports and what the impact might be and yadda yadda, all based on a single tweet of unknown consequence.
I dunno, in Trump’s first term (and the shitshow leading up to it) there was a lot of debate about whether or not the media should be giving airtime to Trump’s ramblings, with the attitude I heard on NPR being “He’s the president, we can’t not cover the crazy shit he says”, but dammit, I wish we’d wait for some concrete output from his crazy tweets before we all jump to figure out what it means.
Best typo of the month.