https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-war/
None of President Donald Trump's usual bailouts are coming after he launched a war on Iran, and the situation has quickly spiraled out of his control.
The 79-year-old president has long relied on lies, bluster and escalation to stay one step ahead of consequences in his business, political, and personal life, but those tactics are proving woefully ineffective against the global energy market that's been choked off by Iran in response to the military operation he impulsively authorized, wrote political scientist Nicholas Grossman for MS NOW.
"In response to the U.S.-Israeli attack, Iran played its biggest card, closing the Strait of Hormuz," wrote Grossman, a political science professor at the University of Illinois. "It’s a narrow choke point at the end of the Persian Gulf, and a kink in the waterway leaves it exposed to a lot of Iran’s coastline. About 20 percent of the world’s oil passes through Hormuz, and it isn’t hard for Iran to stop the traffic."
So most of their navy is gone, most of their missile sites are gone, most of their leaders are dead but they're winning?
ReplyDelete5000 lb. bunker busting bombs dropped on coastal cruise missile launchers.
ReplyDeleteReality is: no more closed Strait of Hormuz.
It is now open?!
DeleteFake News More wishful thinking
DeleteUS attacks Iran: Meanwhile, the US military said it has dropped 5,000-pound guided bombs designed to penetrate targets deep underground on Iranian missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz. Analysts said the bombings could be the opening salvo of a three-week campaign to make the waterway – through which one-fifth of the world’s oil ordinarily flows – safe for oil tanker traffic again.
DeleteThat's what Name meant. Bottom line: the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.
DeleteReally?! Trump claims they are opened i9f you just ignore the iranians!
DeleteMarines are also on stand-by with amphibious capability. Seems like President Trump will focus on grabbing the coast. There may still be some low-level attacks on shipping when the Strait of Hormuz re-opens in three weeks, but that will be dealt with as it occurs.
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