It’d stop them launching ships to lay mines, or launching midget submarines and naval drones, which is a start. It might keep the Iranians too busy fighting on land to aim at ships. It’d basically be an open wound for USA though - completely unsustainable.
Then there’s the fantasy of naval escorts for tankers. Each tanker would require a couple of ships to shadow them (anti-air, anti-sub, anti-drone) for the entire length of the gulf (not just the strait) and in normal times 120 tankers pass through there every day. You’d need a fleet ~400 ships strong, running 24/7 (no repairs or rest). And it only takes one hit from an anti-ship missile and hundreds of sailors die. So that ain’t happening.
To reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bring gas prices down close to where they were before they started the war.
So…all they had to do was…NOTHING.
But they did THIS instead.
Yea, but now no one’s talking about the Epstein files!
Yea, what kind of idiot starts a war just to distract the sheeple from his side business of raping children.
Epstein 2.0 Collecting morally depraved evidence to blackmail rich assholes. Why re-invent the wheel.
If WE don’t stop it, it won’t stop.
See you at todays protest.
They want to provoke an attack on US soil so that they can relive the popularity boost of a 9/11 style disaster.
I doubt they’d get much of a boost. Most people would rightfully blame them. 9/11 was seen as unprovoked.
To do that they’d need to occupy 1000+ kms of extremely rugged coast. That’s quite a commitment…
Would that even be enough? Rockets and drones can come from far away
It’d stop them launching ships to lay mines, or launching midget submarines and naval drones, which is a start. It might keep the Iranians too busy fighting on land to aim at ships. It’d basically be an open wound for USA though - completely unsustainable.
Then there’s the fantasy of naval escorts for tankers. Each tanker would require a couple of ships to shadow them (anti-air, anti-sub, anti-drone) for the entire length of the gulf (not just the strait) and in normal times 120 tankers pass through there every day. You’d need a fleet ~400 ships strong, running 24/7 (no repairs or rest). And it only takes one hit from an anti-ship missile and hundreds of sailors die. So that ain’t happening.
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Sounds expensive
By November 2026… after that who knows