This must be that “too much winning” Trump was talking about.
You’re so short sighted to not see the advantage of re-writing the Obama Nuclear Deal.
For the low, low price of many billions of dollars, a few tens of American lives, global stability, our military readiness, half of our stand-off munitions, our NATO allies and loss of US influence in the entire world we will have acquired an open* Strait of Hormuz, a ceasefire**, some pretty decent Lego propaganda, the one-time free passage of 8 tankers of oil and a doubling of gas prices to support our struggling fossil fuel industry.
*for China only
**not counting air strikes, anti-ship missiles, mines or fast boat attacks.
“foreign bussinesses must operate under Iranian law.” No thanks.
Current list of US sanctions and embargoes
Balkans-related Belarus Burundi Central African Republic China Counter Narcotics Trafficking Counter Terrorism Cuba Cyber Related Democratic Republic of the Congo Iran Iraq-related Lebanon-related Libya Magnitsky Non-Proliferation North Korea Rough Diamond Trade Controls Somalia Sudan Syria Transnational Criminal Organizations Ukraine-related Venezuela Yemen ZimbabweStrange that Belarus IS on that list, but Russia isn’t.
Russia most certainly is, not sure why they left it off. There’s also a bunch of sanctions against Russia under the “Ukraine-related” category.
Cuba will break any minute now! I can feel it
Wouldn’t that just cut their access off?
I swear I just looked this up the other day… I didn’t realize they would so vulenrable. That’s a bit concerning
I think this describes a lot of critical infrastructure. It’s the “profit” mindedness of governments and corporations to choose to consolidate infrastructure in places that might be risky but cost less. It’s like removing tornado warning systems because they cost a lot to maintain, staff, and operate. So a few people being killed and property being destroyed is “worth it” because it’s cheaper in the long run. So running cables in vulnerable areas is “worth it” because it was cost effective to do so and accept the minor risk assessment that political instability might someday affect them. Same with global energy. It was cost effective and profitable to run so many ships through Hormuz and put a substantial amount of refining capacity in a potentially unstable area. Now we pay the price thanks to an idiot president.
Some time ago, Iran released video of their underground “missile cities”, in every city and province, miles upon miles of tunnels packed with missile and drone production and stockpiles.
They’ve been preparing for this for 50 years.
do it
idk why “news” pretends not to be absolute bullshit when they write up shit like this
why would a country announce such a thing?
hmmm considering a lil warfare who knows hehe 😉
why would a country announce such a thing?
If you don’t want all-out war, it’s a good idea to announce your attacks so the other side (1) doesn’t over-react, and (2) pays attention the next time you make a threat. Usually the downside is that the other side might use this information to try to stop you. But at this point Iran has pretty much total control of the Persian Gulf, so that’s not a huge risk.
whaaaaaat
