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Is it even worth to escort tankers? The money you spend on countering cheap drones would be massive, and this administration would likely ask the escorted ships
by riffraff 5mo ago
Is it even worth to escort tankers? The money you spend on countering cheap drones would be massive, and this administration would likely ask the escorted ships to pay for protection. At that point, they might as well just pay Iran.
- QuiEgo 5mo agoThe rub is the insurance for the tankers. The providers are looking at the risk and saying “hard pass.” Unless the US govt wants to get in the tanker insurance business they are stuck.
- nradov 5mo agoThe US government is already in the shipping insurance business. That hasn't helped. War risk insurance is also still available from other carriers. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/washingtons-40-billion-hormuz-insurance-fix-zero-takers-575507.aspx https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/w...