Except for submarines, the Soviets... er, Russians don’t have much that can serve as an escort for anything. Subs don’t make great escorts and their surface fleet doesn’t like to get too far from home port in case they need to be towed home.
If we declare a blockade, it is an act of war to attempt to break it.
As for the Chinese, their navy is not much more capable than the Russians at this time. Besides, their saving those marbles for the invasion of Taiwan. It would do to get them shot up over Iran when their getting ready to start pump oil off the shores of Florida.
Thanks for the info. However, the Russians can once again place four to six divisions on Iran’s 2,000 kilometer border with “Russia/USSR” as they did when the Khomeini 1979 revolution they incited was in progress.
IN that event, they had four divisions of dark haired, Farsi/Persian speakers waiting, who were later aimed at Afghanistan.
They already have some 50,000 Russian consultants/advisors inside Iran, virtually one or more in every islamic iran’s government office or organization. So in depth intel.
Although they would have to cross a high mountain range to send boots on the ground at us if we take Khuzestan province (oil fields) as part of our “protection of Persian Gulf oil, we would still have quite a battle on our hands against Russian troops sweeping in from the North..
The other side of this coin is that Khuzestan runs parallel to Iraq for quite a long stretch and would simplistically be an extension of our Iraq ops further South and a tad East, rather than a totally new war zone.
Our blockade would be a declaration of war on Iran (good idea) and Russian and China seem to be establishing an underground set of cooperation mindsets with China’s tons of cash Dollars being needed by Russian development of their oil fields (about $25 billion required). this amount is petty cash for China, which holds abvout two or three trillion dollars in cash..
Free flow thought additions to your comments.