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Now we are the tools of fools, creating chaos and enforcing extortion on a grand scale.

The escort can't stop the tanker hitting a mine or someone shoting a missile or drone.

Your ships are worthless scrap in the drone age .......naval escorts to rape the strait ....good luck with following the stupid one.

Prior to operation Epstein Fury the Strait of Hormuz was open and 260 girls between 7 and 12 were
not dead or wounded from 2 American Tomahawk Missiles.

because this idiotic attack on Iran needs our attention. I think it may have been here where I read it.

.. is mentioned more in the Epstein files than is Jeffery Epstein.

are such that they think Kashyap Patel’s bit of stuff needs an FBI Swat team escort for security.

The navigable lanes are narrow, with very limited room to maneuver. The Navy's standard RIM-174 Standard ERAM is still $4M a pop vs. Iran's $50K per drone. And that does nothing about mines. Did we just forget all about the Samuel B. Roberts? The Navy didn't. This is madness.

However the water is deep right up to the coast of Oman/UAE and the escorts would have more intercept time from there.
No reason the channel has to be in the middle.
And drones can be shot down with 5" naval gunfire & CIWS as proved in the Red Sea from Houthis launching them at the US Navy.
A Apache or A-10 overhead would help too.
Minesweeping would have to be done obviously.

DDGs aren't designed for escort duty. Gee, wouldn't it be nice to have some frigates right about now? But alas, we don't. And you want to risk a hundred million dollar tanker and it's cargo on 5" accuracy? Oh, hell no. It proved spotty in the Red Sea, thus the reliance on missile interdiction and DDGs running dangerously low on missiles. And the drones just kept coming. Couple that with drone swarms Iran is capable of and I'm sure you see the problem.

Air interdiction is also tricky. You've got to be in the right places at the right times and the damn things are tough to pick up long range. So vectoring air assets becomes a problem. Want to risk a tanker or two on "where they hell did those come from?!" vectoring? And those air assets are also going to take fire. You think the Iranians are just going to sit and watch the show? Not likely.

As far as electronic drone countermeasures, do you really think the US Navy absorbed the lessons from Ukraine by now? Not the Navy I once served in. It usually takes getting smacked in the head for the current war and its doctrines to sink in, get trained on, and become proficient at.

And mine clearing isn't as straightforward as you think. Particularly under fire. Either with surface or air assets. Particularly since it's not a glamorous occupation and training in real world situations may be quite thin. That's usually the case for training that's not enjoyable. And assets are limited. Lets not forget that.

Seems your whole premise involves turning the straight itself into a hot war zone. That's really not going to work. And what happens when we try to transfer "paper" understanding to the real world. And why any commercial ship owner with any sense isn't going to go for such.

And don't the Chinese made jet drones that
Iran is using have electronic counter measures that block a lot of tracking measures used to detect them? A swarm of them could ruin an aircraft carrier.

Btw isn't this going to be U.S. tax dollars paying for the protection of PRIVATE fossil
fuel company's profits?

And a kinetic escalation in the strait itself is going to send risk through the roof. That's what keeps tankers and LNG carriers swinging at anchor. Risk and associated insurance cost, if they can even get insurance. Iran is a large country with numerous places to hide things. Limited air strikes, as we've seen so far, aren't going to degrade their capabilities enough to reduce that risk. That would take a much larger mobilization which would make Nov. even worse for Republicans.

We're paying to protect Gulf producers and doing a poor job of it. Anyone with oil outside the Gulf, US frackers, North Sea, Nigeria, Russia, etc., etc., are making out like bandits. Their costs didn't go up much but the price of their product increased ~50%. In that way, Trump's disaster is benefiting US and other oil producers. Just not directly.

she has experience as an escort ...

Billions for the billionaires, misery for the needy.

The most Christian Administration ever!

That's what the oil companies/ship owners will rely on before they will send them through.

and then up to Hormuz. And to fund it Israel can cancel their free college education and healthcare. No more 3.8 Billion per year from the US. End the additional emergency military aid. They already received 18 Billion.

If Jewish Americans and Evangelicals want to donate money to Israel to fill the gaps they can. That's their prerogative.

Oh, and Oil CEOs should proudly lead the way in their yachts proudly displaying large US and Israeli flags.

waiting for American warships to wander into Iranian waters. They have full size torpedoes.



Iran's Ghadir submarines are seen in the southern port of Bandar Abbas in Persian Gulf, Iran, August 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei/File

He still hasn't got Panama.

It should be called the Epstein closing of the strait.

Maybe Jared could chip in a couple billion from the stash he's making.

Because we know the Trump will do what they want

Trump and Hegseth are using what we have well beyond programmed deployments. Wear and tear are increasing. Morale is plummeting. Suitable ships and trained people are not infinite resources. Hegseth would have learned this if he's advanced beyond a REMF Major.

at just how much of our taxes go towards Corporations..............

As one point.......think about how all the Cargo, Container ships, Oil Tankers, etc cross the oceans every year without being hijacked.......WHY? The fear of the U.S. Navy patrolling the waters around the world is why.........

It has been going on for decades and decades and has been present since the 1800's, and grown ever since. It grew a lot under Reagan, alot more under Cheney's regime, and has shot up dramatically in the past 10+ years.......

One of the simplest definitions of FASCISM, is the merger of Government and Corporations.....surprise, surprise.

When you get down to the net/net, the Corporations rule the politicians! And the Republicans have the very best politicians their money can buy...........

This was GREATLY accelerated by the 2010 ruling, by the Supreme Court, Citizens United....It was the final nail in the coffin, the last straw, and the kiss of death to our democracy, economy, Constitution, rule of law, our citizens, etc

I would venture a guess that if you walked down the street, and asked people what do you know about Citizens United, that 90+% would look at you with a blank stare, totally dumfounded.

The perfect title, for a book about the past 46+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT.........And they are still sleeping...

Most people, since Reagan was corruptly "Installed" in the White House, have been wandering down the Jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes, and totally oblivious to the herd of charging elephants.....Pun Intended.....

This Iran War is a big event in the history of the world. Armenian genocide was smaller in geographic size. This is a whole ancient civilization.

They can give up their welfare subsidies and start paying taxes.

With all this destruction of Iran's military Trump/Hegseth brag about, WHY are they letting Iranian forces board and capture large ships?

WHY are they letting Iran close the strait?

TOFU

will still be effectively closed, even if Trump declares it "open".