How does the US not have veto power over that shoreline at this point? I’d think by now somebody so much as touches a suspicious rowboat over there and it’s game over
Firecracker048 on
Gonna be interesting to see how Iran tries to pull this off without any air assets or defense
DefinitelyNotMeee on
Hmm, that’s their ‘nuclear’ option from which they can’t recover – their own, and more importantly, Chinese ships would be just as endangered by mines as anyone else.
So, given the source, I’m more inclined to consider this less plausible.
hEarrai-Stottle on
Don’t worry, Trump asked them to put them back or there will be consequences. Maybe a war or something, we don’t know yet.
Two_Pickachu_One_Cup on
Not sure that Iran would even have the capacity to mine the strait now. It may have done before the war and before the US supposedly sank 90% of its fleet and as others have pointed out, it risks angering China who have been their main economic lifeline throughout US led sanctions.
And they don’t need to mine the strait to shut it. The mere threat of drones is enough to spook any commercial vessel from passing through there.
Minttt on
Part of me wonders if just the threat of laying mines will be as effective as the actual laying of mines – even if no mines are laid.
Are tankers and cargo ships going to take the US at their word that it’s safe?
wind_dude on
Considering they’re still disabling ww2 mines in the South Pacific that ain’t good.
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How does the US not have veto power over that shoreline at this point? I’d think by now somebody so much as touches a suspicious rowboat over there and it’s game over
Gonna be interesting to see how Iran tries to pull this off without any air assets or defense
Hmm, that’s their ‘nuclear’ option from which they can’t recover – their own, and more importantly, Chinese ships would be just as endangered by mines as anyone else.
So, given the source, I’m more inclined to consider this less plausible.
Don’t worry, Trump asked them to put them back or there will be consequences. Maybe a war or something, we don’t know yet.
Not sure that Iran would even have the capacity to mine the strait now. It may have done before the war and before the US supposedly sank 90% of its fleet and as others have pointed out, it risks angering China who have been their main economic lifeline throughout US led sanctions.
And they don’t need to mine the strait to shut it. The mere threat of drones is enough to spook any commercial vessel from passing through there.
Part of me wonders if just the threat of laying mines will be as effective as the actual laying of mines – even if no mines are laid.
Are tankers and cargo ships going to take the US at their word that it’s safe?
Considering they’re still disabling ww2 mines in the South Pacific that ain’t good.