Have the Iranians been invited to tea yet?
So why aren’t these tankers being escorted by naval vessels?
Oil prices not changing much. It’s at 55 with 42 the 52 week low and 76 the 52 week high.
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but there is a reason Kerry et al spent so much time in Iran. There is no doubt in my mind they are helping to direct this. Push Trump into a war with Iran, and then blame it all on him canceling the Iran deal and “sanctioning” them into desperation, and then war (you can hear them-everything was just fine with the deal in place!). POTUS is a smart man and I hope that in the absence of Iran attacking American interests directly, he sits back until there is a substantial international outcry for U.S. intervention in the region.
Iran backed down and released the Mesdar after giving it a “safety warning”
Heard on Sean Hannity radio show, on Patriot channel, that the count is now up to 4 tankers seized by Iran.
I am already hearing the same old argument that if Trump goes to war it is all about oil.
WRONG!
Reality is, if Iran is successful in shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, America gets richer, because everyone will be forced to buy our oil. So using that tired old argument is dead. If we do nothing we get richer, because the world would have to come to us.
Especially since one of the largest producers of oil is Venezuela, and their Socialist government has collapsed and cannot get their own oil out of the ground. As usual Socialism breeds poverty and destruction.
So If Trump does nothing, we get richer. Sorry Charlie, but that old argument is baseless.
Time for the leftists to get educated.
It is not about their oil.
Still winning, and not tired of it.
SAS and SEALS together again.
Let Britain deal with their own problems.
Maggie Thatcher would kick their asses like
Falklands.
Now, with so many muzzies, effective action
is unlikely.
Liberian flagged tanker Medsar is underway moving away from Iran.
Options:
1) Do nothing
2) Nuke Tehran
3) Send a pallet of cash
4) Something in between #1 and #2 above
The reason Trump did not bomb Iran after the shootdown of the Global Hawk? He needed a bigger trigger event, for both prudential and political reasons. Is this that trigger event? Good question. Whatever it is, I expect US retaliation to be on the scale of Praying Mantis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
No war for Britainistan.
Is the UK going to skin that Smokewagon or just stand there and bleed?
Think it’s time to sink every ship and boat on the Iranian coast. Blow them all up at night to minimize the loss of life. But don’t leave a single one floating.
I don’t understand what Iran hopes to gain from this. They have to know they’ll just get their ass kicked?