We want our billions Obama gave you. Your oil production would be fine. China and India have to be sh$tting bricks right now. Take the oil and crush their economies in one swoop.
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China has warned Iran not to try closing the Strait.
Then take out Iran’s electrical grid..power plants, transmission lines, substations.
Not our problem! Only a small part of US crude comes from the Middle East and it all goes to California. (Because they won’t build a pipeline to Texas)
It’s China’s problem now. Let them sail their Navy 8,000 miles, pick sides in the Middle East knife fight and convoy their tankers home.
It will be funny watching them try
Operation Praying Mantis 1988
> the US should counter this threat by seizing Kharg Island, the terminal through which 90% of Iran’s oil is exported <
Okay. Occupy the island. But then you’ll need to control a buffer zone near the island to prevent sniping and such. That will require infantry sweeps now and again.
Uh, no. That’s called mission creep, and it’s never a good thing.
They close the Strait then China has no oil. They ain’t going to like that at all. They might even join the US in kicking Iran’s @$$.
China loses if the Strait is closed I’m sure they told Tehran that but Iran will have to calculate in another direction.
Any hits on Americans will give President Trump and the “Regime Change” justification. Netanyahu prodding that way anyway.
And Russia and China can see the long-term implications for them are negative in that scenario.
Pakistan to the east of Iran certainly has nuclear capability and financial and military ties to China.
One way or another, Iran will pay dearly for all acts of agression.
Closing the Strait of Hormuz would be quite a gift to our economy right when we are bringing our oil production back on line and opening up new areas for exploration that were placed off limits by administrations since Reagan.
Iran can’t even close their own air space, much less the Strait. Oh, they may try, but it’ll last about as long as their air defenses lasted against Israel.
Another reason to be drilling in the USA.
Does Iran have any real ability to close the Straits right now, with so much of their political and military leadership either dead or in hiding?
Take the Uranium, Take the oil, use the money to repair all the damage done by Iran’s proxies over the last 40 yeras, and also use the money t9 build GAZA into a Trump resort as a Center of Bitcoin banking.
The Time That America Obliterates Half Of Iran’s Navy In 8 Hours! - Operation Praying Mantis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE
Don’t seize it.
Destroy it and walk away.
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It will kill its own oil business with China.