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Bluetus

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28. The truly insane thing is that ships can't upen the Strait

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:00 PM

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There is high ground over the strait. Any ship is a sitting duck. Iran can attack with rockets, torpedos, and drones.

Every shipper and their insurance company knows this. Every NATO country knows this and would have explained that to Trump and his drunk Secretary of War if they had asked BEFORE bombing schools and everything else.

There are 2 ways to get the strait open:

1) Send in 50,000 troops and occupy the entire Iranian coastline along the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman.

2) Leave. Just get the F out.

Guess which one Trump will pick. And notice Netanyahu isn't offering to put thousands of Israeli soldiers inside Iran. Why should we?

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