#Trump demands Hormuz reopened — reality says otherwiseDemented Donald reportedly pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, only to be told the situation is far more dangerous t...
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...han his rhetoric suggests, according to The New York Times.Even a single Iranian fighter in a speedboat could fire a missile into a slow-moving supertanker or plant a mine on its hull, US officials said — enough to send insurance costs soaring and tanker traffic fleeing the Gulf.Despite Pentagon claims of “total air dominance” and assertions that #Iran has “no air defenses, no air force, no navy,” the strait has nearly ground to a halt, the report said.According to The New York Times, at l...
...east 16 commercial vessels have been attacked in the Persian Gulf since the war began.Washington’s main plan now? A risky and expensive idea: US Navy escorts for commercial ships — an operation officials admit could take weeks to organize.US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime