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This should be called “Operation give-us-what-we-had-before-the-war”
Spending billions to get what you had.
Stable genius.
They're not going to re-open the strait though.
They will burn billions trying to escort ships and Iran only needs to launch a $20k drone every few weeks.
Exactly.
If Trump had just stayed inside the White House and let Vance run the country he'd have sailed into a second term.
Fuck that thinking sir. That'd be an illegal third term.
Which part of "aspiring fascist dictator" implies a respect for the law?
Update: shots fired! Apparently Iran has hit a US ship with two missiles.
How unexpected...
Moving large naval targets into the range of enemy defenses despite having the technological advantage necessary to keep out of it must be another 5D chess move from the orange master mind.
/edit: If it's really true and not another pump and dump scheme for Oligarchy Brows Ltd.
No doubt insurance agencies telling captains they're being dropped as we speak
This might get interesting. If the Ukraine was able to pretty much win the war at sea without a navy using drones, we will see how much of a nuisance Iran can be.
I mostly agree, however the US can always move reserves to the area. Russias Black Sea fleet has been cut off from other parts of its navy because it cannot cross the Straight of Bosporus.
The problem is a navy can't win this kind of battle no matter how many reserves it has. The more ships the US bring in, the more targets for the iranian drones to hit. They're just there as expensive decoys, not able to clear mines and not able to destroy the drone launchers.
And from Iran's point of view they don't need to hit much to cause chaos - the threat of being hit is enough to drive insurance prices through the roof and dissuade shipping to take the risk of traversing the strait.
Ukraine. "The" is not needed. It would be like saying "the France" or "the Germany".
%100 this will not go well for the US ships.
The Ukraine? You me Ukraine?
No they won’t. It’s just trump trying to manipulate the markets again.
Also it won’t work. We have no operational mine clearing assets. The old ones were decommissioned and the new ones don’t work.
I was wondering why they were announcing this
Project Freedom
Wow, so creative.
Iran, on the other hand, has lots of drones left.
Project Pedo
That’s a sketchy site with a high likelyhood of being all AI slop according to the AI checkers.
Not "Epic" Freedom? The american propaganda crew is slipping. Maybe too many people thought that the "E.F." in "Epic Fury" meant "Epstein Files".
Sounds expensive
I wonder what Iran's next move will be. Temporarily relax the blockade for outgoing ships but maintain it for incoming ships? As a means of deliberately wasting US resources, that is. So far they seemed to avoid head-to-head clashes with the US.
Control over the straight is one of the main reasons they're still geopolitically relevant. I don't see them giving it up for good, they will at least say that the blockade is still on. Given they have a lot of naval drones and missiles which are not 100% countered by US hardware, I don't foresee any insurance companies co-signing on commercial ships crossing the straight.
Just last week some expert was saying that escorting ships is one option for US but that it will be super slow and definitely take some casualties on US side. I guess Trump didn't read the same article.