Posted on 08/03/2023 11:59:40 PM PDT by Texan4Life
"There is an effort... to employ security details composed of both Marines and Navy sailors on commercial tankers transiting in and near the Strait of Hormuz as an added layer of defense for these vulnerable ships," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
An invitation is needed to do so because the ships are private vessels, but "we are undergoing preparations to execute should final agreements be in place to do that," the official said.
The United States is boosting its forces operating in the region, announcing last month that it would deploy a destroyer, F-35 and F-16 warplanes, as well as an Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit comprised of some 3,000 personnel.
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For the last few years we have been seizing Iranian ships and cargoes. Maybe we should stop doing that too. Trump kept us out of a was with Iran. Iran and the Saudis have buried the hatchet. But the daughter molester in DC is determined to get us into a war with Iran.
Baiting foreign flagged tankers with US Marines is now the extent of our foreign policy?
Our economy, and our standard of living, depend minutely on "other nations' ships". It needn't nor should it be that way, but that's world our elites have forged. This the mess we have voted our way into.
War is the health of government, and the death of peoples. The government necessarily, both in America and England, grew during World War II, and never contracted.
Covid-19 worked like a charm to put a Democrat in the White House, and give Democrats congress. A war with Iran might be just what the doctor ordered for Biden’s falling popularity. And he can probably con the current congress into printing a few trillion inflation-fighting dollars to pay for it.
Joe Biden may have to do that.
O'Biden couldn't find Iran on the map... I doubt he even HAS a map..!
Well, thank goodness we no longer have laws that our federal government must adhere to. /s
Foreign commercial ship protection is the USMC duty?
They will be there to die, creating an attack on US military personnel.
“Generals gathered in their masses…”
3rd-world military dragging the US into a mini-war.
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You forget the air units on standby or on patrol over the area.
The Iranian Navy would last, according to last estimates, somewhere between 5 to 10 minutes before being completely wiped out. Mini-war over.
If a shipping company is concerned about the safety of its ships and/or crews, why isn’t the shipping company paying for armed security to be on its ships
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Loyd’s has a no armed policy - they need special wavers which are very difficult to obtain. No insurance, no shipping.
seizure of an American ship
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Patrol boat, not a ship - and they lost and were surrounded with .50 cals on Iranian boats - fighting back would have been instant suicide.
But then there’s this:
Biden Admin Planning to Evade Congress with Secret New Nuclear Deal with Iran
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4172747/posts
I don’t see it but if they start doing it as a routine duty assignment I think it would be called a duty, not a mission.
Gotcha. I didn’t think you were being technical about wording.
I’m sure the Marines will have a lawyer on speed dial that they can call and ask what to do if they get attacked.
What’s the point of doing that if your own government won’t support you?
Just pretend that this is a raghead pirate/navy boat harassing a Tanker.
Why didn’t you use your other user name.
Didn’t we do something like this near the “Shores of Tripoli”?
Shouldn’t Panama be putting its troops on Panamanian-flagged vessels. Of course the Iranians have already shown willingness to attack and capture a U.S. Navy patrol boat and her crew.
Will they be trannies? I even lost faith in the Marines. No doubt in my mind they will obey orders WHEN the democrats order them to kill us.
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