Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk

[billd766]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

They also have submarines small ones and high speed torpedoes I’d be curious as to know has their navy been wiped out?anyway looks like convoy duty for sure putting a lot of folks at risk….thats just the (hard) targets we all know how they like to go after (soft) targets….but don’t worry we have that crack professional home security team to rely on…….hopefully it will be over soon and be successful in our favor.

The Iranians have no need to sink a major US warship.

 

All they need to do is to sink a support ship or a support tanker an the battle group will have no aviation fuel, ammunition or food other that what is on board on a daily usage basis.

 

Putting an aircraft carrier group inside the Arab Gulf will effectively bottle it up, as the Straits of Hormuz is the only way in or out. Common sense 101.

[BLMFem]

5 hours ago, JAG said:

He has a Sharpie, indispensable for unilaterally renaming international bodies of water and diverting hurricanes.

 

You're right, and he's at it again!

 

 

[gargamon]

[atpeace]

1 minute ago, gearbox said:

The people of my country have no business attacking other countries. And any country attacked should fight back, including Iran. 

You are  bigger and stronger than your neighbor and he tells you  he is going to rape your daughter and he has access to her.  You would do nothing?  Interesting...

[FritsSikkink]

7 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Iranian airspace might belong to Iran but it's now totally controlled by Israel. As for "just fly in and bomb them?" that's easy. Take out a threat of nuclear weapons which would threaten the US, US personnel and interests, and the defence of an ally, Israel. What do you imagine would happen. The US contacts Iran to ask if they can come into their airspace so they can bomb their nuclear enrichment facilities?

Maybe the USA could mind their own business for once and leave other countries be instead of trying to control everything. Always the BS excuse, we have to protect our interests (they should be in your own country).

[Quentin Zen]

1 minute ago, FritsSikkink said:

Maybe the USA could mind their own business for once and leave other countries be instead of trying to control everything.

Nobody can stop America.   

 

Nobody.

 

So they will control everything.

 

This is the way.

 

Please, write to your Embassy and demand a mean letter to be sent to Trump.

 

The United States military is widely considered the strongest in the world, with significant advantages in military spending, technology, and global reach. While other nations like China and Russia are also developing strong militaries, the US maintains a substantial lead in several key areas. 

 

Key Strengths of the US Military:

• Budget:

  The US military budget is significantly larger than any other nation's, allowing for investment in advanced weaponry, technology, and personnel. 

   
• Technology:

  The US military possesses cutting-edge technology in areas like aircraft carriers, fighter jets, submarines, and precision-guided weapons. 

   
• Global Presence:

  The US maintains a vast network of military bases and personnel around the world, enabling rapid response and power projection capabilities. 

   
• Special Operations Forces:

  The US has highly trained and well-equipped special operations forces like Delta Force and SEAL Team 6, capable of handling complex and dangerous missions. 

   
• Logistics:

  The US military excels in logistics, ensuring that troops and equipment can be deployed and sustained effectively anywhere in the world. 

[josephbloggs]

6 hours ago, save the frogs said:

good. shut it down.

let's start using solar panels and windmills. 

 

 
but but but........the eagles!!

[FritsSikkink]

5 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

Nobody can stop America.   

 

Nobody.

 

So they will control everything.

 

This is the way.

 

Please, write to your Embassy and demand a mean letter to be sent to Trump.

 

The United States military is widely considered the strongest in the world, with significant advantages in military spending, technology, and global reach. While other nations like China and Russia are also developing strong militaries, the US maintains a substantial lead in several key areas. 

 

Key Strengths of the US Military:

• Budget:

  The US military budget is significantly larger than any other nation's, allowing for investment in advanced weaponry, technology, and personnel. 

   
• Technology:

  The US military possesses cutting-edge technology in areas like aircraft carriers, fighter jets, submarines, and precision-guided weapons. 

   
• Global Presence:

  The US maintains a vast network of military bases and personnel around the world, enabling rapid response and power projection capabilities. 

   
• Special Operations Forces:

  The US has highly trained and well-equipped special operations forces like Delta Force and SEAL Team 6, capable of handling complex and dangerous missions. 

   
• Logistics:

  The US military excels in logistics, ensuring that troops and equipment can be deployed and sustained effectively anywhere in the world. 

Vietnam war lost

Korean war never ended.

Afghanistan war solved nothing, Taliban rules again.

 

What is your military going to do against a barrage of nuclear war heads?

[ThreeCardMonte]

Iran’s new B2 will help them close the strait.

 

 

[cjinchiangrai]

Thank you Donald, another ill thought plan to blow up the economy, Who knew your bone spurs were in your head?

[ThreeCardMonte]

35 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Vietnam war lost

Korean war never ended.

Afghanistan war solved nothing, Taliban rules again.

 

What is your military going to do against a barrage of nuclear war heads?

From who?  Certainly not Irans war heads.

[FritsSikkink]

Just now, ThreeCardMonte said:

From who?  Certainly not Irans war heads.

There are already several countries thinking about giving Iran nuclear weapons: Russia Warns Of Nuclear Arming For Iran After U.S. Strikes

[ThreeCardMonte]

Just now, FritsSikkink said:

There are already several countries thinking about giving Iran nuclear weapons: Russia Warns Of Nuclear Arming For Iran After U.S. Strikes

OMG!

 

Another pearl clutching fear monger.

 

Come back when the exchange actually takes place.

 

 

[FritsSikkink]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

With what pray tell are you going to do that? you have no Airforce, (at least not the ones you want to send up and lose them, right?) you're hiding your Navey vessels, yes, you have 8 subs, but if you want to lose them too, send out to initiate

a blockade. Go On.

 

Couple of mines is a lot cheaper.

[Yagoda]

4 hours ago, hydraides said:

The cult operates in nearly every country, probably all countries....especially China/Iran/Israel/ America

 

Islam and Judaism worship the cube of Saturn...I.e Satan, they are worshipping and answering to the same being.......who has got them fighting each other for him while he is laughing hysterically at the mayhem he is causing

 

Iran vs Israel + America , is just pure theatre, The cult desired outcome is to jack up oil prices to abusrb levels $150-200+.........(Close strait of homuz, damage irans oil facilities + iran could launch massive strikes on Saudi Aramco fields etc)

 

How long can China Economy survive with $200, It can't and the whole world economy will fold because of it.....and the cash economy gone

 

The cult wants every human to have ...... No paper money but Trackable Digital Currency with AI....where governments can approve or dissprove any transaction.........don't take a vaccine.........you are shut out of the whole system etc.....

What strain are you smoking and where do you get it?

[KhunLA]

54 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Iran’s new B2 will help them close the strait.

 

 

 

Iran ranks about 16th out of 145 countries in military strength ...

 

 

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php#:~:text=1,PwrIndx: 0.4835

[JackGats]

What Iran could do is announce that only ships belonging to its allies (Russia, China etc.) are allowed to go through. Whatever, this would be an opportunity for Israel and the US to eradicate Iran's navy, which has been spared up to now.

[TedG]

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Did you mean like the USA bombing a country that they are not at war with without even consulting the few allies that the USA has left?

 

That sort of law and order?

What states the US must consult with anyone? 

[jerrymahoney]

On 29 June 2008, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said that if either Israel or the United States attacked Iran, it would seal off the Strait of Hormuz to wreak havoc in the oil markets. This followed more ambiguous threats from Iran's oil minister and other government officials that an attack on Iran would result in turmoil in the world's oil supply.

Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet stationed in Bahrain across the Persian Gulf from Iran, warned that such Iranian action would be considered an act of war, and the U.S. would not allow Iran to hold hostage nearly a third of the world's oil supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

[TedG]

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

Iran ranks about 16th out of 145 countries in military strength ...

 

 

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php#:~:text=1,PwrIndx: 0.4835

Yet, Israel controls the sky’s over Iran. 

[NickyLouie]

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

On 29 June 2008, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said that if either Israel or the United States attacked Iran, it would seal off the Strait of Hormuz to wreak havoc in the oil markets. This followed more ambiguous threats from Iran's oil minister and other government officials that an attack on Iran would result in turmoil in the world's oil supply.

Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet stationed in Bahrain across the Persian Gulf from Iran, warned that such Iranian action would be considered an act of war, and the U.S. would not allow Iran to hold hostage nearly a third of the world's oil supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

 

We could seize control of Hormuz within days , no worries 

 

[hydraides]

33 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

What strain are you smoking and where do you get it?

 

🙄🙄🙄 Keep living your naive life and you are going to be horrified whats going to happen in the world within the next 5 years

 

Remember just a few years ago, when you weren't allowed into any facilities,  or hotels, or a job or allowed to travel without a vaccine certificate?!

 

That was just a feeler and little taster or what is planned

 

 

 

 

 

[hydraides]

2 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

 

We could seize control of Hormuz within days , no worries 

 

THey don't even have to close it, just like someone said before, ......sink a few cargo vessels and the insurance premiums make going through the strait unprofitable and would completely cut supply

[jerrymahoney]

Thanks. I was worried.

[JensenZ]

8 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

@EVENKEEL seemed to be saying Iran can't do dat, it's against international law.

 

You know, like bombing some country you're not at war with.

LOL. International Law is totally irrelevant unless there's a way of policing it... like China building islands in the South China Sea, just off the coast of the Philippines. No one takes any notice of International Law.

[VocalNeal]

11 hours ago, annotator said:

Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel through which around 20% of the world’s daily oil flows.

 

US diplomacy at it's best? What happened to teddy Roosevelt's "Speak Softly..."

[0james0]

59 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

Iran ranks about 16th out of 145 countries in military strength ...

 

 

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php#:~:text=1,PwrIndx: 0.4835

The United States ranks #1-how about that!

[0james0]

16 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Or perhaps they hate the fact that it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of BS. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

 

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

 

Unappealing, unattractive, idiotic, incompetent, hateful, hurtful, abrasive, rude, blowhard, liar, cheater, thief, infantile, failure, loser, fraud, sexual abuser, incestuous, tax cheat, insurrectionist, un-American, dictator-loving dictator wannabe, out of control, sociopathic, convicted felon, toxic narcissist & brutish A-hole.

 

Everything about the con-man referred to as Trump is unlikeable. He's everything wrong with the human animal, all stuffed into one specimen. 

 

Wanna know how I really feel? And how inaccurate your assessment of this man is and how misplaced your devotion is? 

 

 

 

Ha! You are so annoyed and I’m entertained by it!

[NickyLouie]

22 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

 

Wanna know how I really feel? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yawn .......

 

 

[samtam]

9 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Iranian airspace might belong to Iran but it's now totally controlled by Israel. As for "just fly in and bomb them?" that's easy. Take out a threat of nuclear weapons which would threaten the US, US personnel and interests, and the defence of an ally, Israel. What do you imagine would happen. The US contacts Iran to ask if they can come into their airspace so they can bomb their nuclear enrichment facilities?

 

There's that pesky thing called  terrorism.