Iran begins mining Strait of Hormuz as Washington's tanker escort claim collapses

[marble falls]

17. This will end very quickly once the Navy is in place. This is one of the busiest trade routes, maybe the second ...

... busiest. Two tankers hit. Out of hundreds of freighters going both ways. You miss the forest for the trees. Give the Navy a chance to shut them down. Just like we shut down the Yemeni Houthi missiles on the other side.

This is what you're concerned with. The US has severely degraded oil production and shipment from Iran mainly to countries in Se Asia, particularly India. and now TACO wants to give Russian a window to sell oil to India. We are in an oil glut, Iran didn't need to be bombed and now we're easing sanctions to allow the Russians to trade oil in India. And you worry about fucking mines and missiles.

Done. So done with this.