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Trump considering taking over Strait of Hormuz
- SilverElfin 8mo agoGiven that China is shipping missile components and fuel ingredients to Iran via the strait, and since Iran is threatening global shipping traffic there, taking it over makes sense. Even if the optics of the wider war are bad.
- Webstir 8mo ago[flagged]
- smt88 8mo agoWhether GP is low-info or not, HN guidelines say to assume the best of someone and not to insult them. Calling people ignorant doesn't make them want to change their minds. It just makes them dislike you.
- defrost 8mo agoIf you edit out the snipe and add your own thoughts in response, your own comment would be much improved.
- Webstir 8mo agoYeah, right. The emperor has no clothes. Trump’s made the U.S. the laughingstock of the world. And CBS has now gone full Larry Ellizionist nazi.
- smt88 8mo agoWhy do you think the US couldn't take over the Strait of Hormuz (or any other territory not currently held by a nuclear military)?
- IAmGraydon 8mo agoI imagine that if they can't even stop the hail of missiles on tanker ships, they certainly can't take over the strait.
- rsynnott 8mo agoI mean, er, see Iraq, Afghanistan (multiple times), Ukraine, etc etc. Invading places tends to, in practice, be rather difficult.
- lazylizard 8mo agowhat does that even mean? does it mean iran will stop shooting at ships passing thru the area? because usa has taken it over?
- Ekaros 8mo agoLooking at map it seems very tall ask. You need to hold on to few hundred kilometres of coast. In hostile country which will do best to thwart your effort. And anything in the strait and around it... Might as well go for regime change at that point...
- IAmGraydon 8mo agoIt means nothing because it's the ramblings of an old man who talks a whole lot of shit he can't deliver on.
- Alan_Writer 8mo agoWe could see that Iran is all-in at this point. IF this gets to happen, it won't be free or without hard consequences, I believe. There's so much to lose for everybody in this war. The bully Trump should take another approach, or none at all, and retire while possible.
- mamonster 8mo agoUSA is also kind of "all-in" at this point. People say that Trump should TACO but at this point it's basically lighting the Gulf States' relationship with the US on fire. At a minimum, they will have to massively hike their own defense expenditures and likely reorient money earmarked for investments in the US to do that.