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GreatGazoo

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2. Strait has been open to vessels flagged as non-US/Israel owned
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 12:45 PM
15 hrs ago

$2-million Tollbooth has been in place for weeks. US media is brain dead.

Also:

The situation in the Strait of Hormuz is nothing if not confusing right now. So, CitriniResearch sent our incredibly capable field analyst – dubbed Analyst #3 in order to avoid emotional attachment – on assignment to the Strait of Hormuz. Armed with a fluency in four languages including Arabic, a Pelican case full of equipment, a pack of Cuban cigars, $15,000 in cash and a roll of Zyn, #3 set out to fulfill the itinerary we’d planned in our Manhattan offices the week prior.

We figured we’d leave with an impression that was basically “The strait was closed or open.” We also were quite aware that the trip might be a flop and we would learn nothing at all. However, we came away with a much more nuanced understanding of the current environment and the transition to a multipolar world.
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It was clear that nobody — literally nobody, not the analysts, not the correspondents, not the retired generals doing hits on cable news and least of all us — actually had any idea what was going on. Everyone was working from the same stale satellite imagery and the same unnamed Pentagon sources and the same AIS shipping data, which, as I would later discover, was missing roughly half of what was actually transiting the strait on any given day.

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/strait-of-hormuz-a-citrini-field

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Yes and no. NT mahatmakanejeeves 15 hrs ago #1
Strait has been open to vessels flagged as non-US/Israel owned GreatGazoo 15 hrs ago #2
$2 million. Huh. Wednesdays 15 hrs ago #3
Right now underpants 14 hrs ago #6
Thanks for posting this 👍 MustLoveBeagles 14 hrs ago #14
Yep. Good one. Amaryllis 14 hrs ago #18
Likeness of the Ayatollah on one side Bluetus 14 hrs ago #11
They accept Yuan and crypto GreatGazoo 14 hrs ago #13
I don't think they have trump's face on them. Wonder Why 14 hrs ago #15
My cat says she has no interest in participating in this! OC375 15 hrs ago #4
Smart Cat annielion 14 hrs ago #17
Exact change only. usonian 14 hrs ago #5
You beat me to it. 😂😂❤️ underpants 14 hrs ago #7
Great minds think alike. usonian 14 hrs ago #8
❤️ underpants 14 hrs ago #10
No Trumpcoins RetiredParatrooper 13 hrs ago #21
Depends on how we measure the Panama Canal. mr715 14 hrs ago #9
Bravo WSHazel 14 hrs ago #12
Excellent! annielion 14 hrs ago #16
Sounds like a real CATatostrophe peppertree 13 hrs ago #19
Great point. Very apt analogy. Mblaze 13 hrs ago #20
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