It doesn’t. The threats of potential but increasingly unlikely mines, UASs and missiles creates fear in merchant shipping. The same ships are alreay constantly vulnerable because the rear echelons are evaporating anyway.
I like the blockade strategy. I’d like it even more if we took possesion of Kharg and Qeshm. One way or abother, we Own the Strait.
You “like” the fact that 47% of China’s oil passes through the strait of Hormuz and US piracy on the high seas would in fact constitute a naval blockade of anither superpower’s energy supply? This is the most dangerous and stupid escalation yet (and that’s saying a lot). I think people are slowly coming to the realization that Trump is actually a little bit mental. Too bad it took the crashing of the world economy for years to come to realize that.
blockading is a safer, cheaper, and nearly blood-free strategy that is just as effective as “taking” Kharg Island ... any strategy Iran might have to slaughter thousands of USA soldiers via mass suicide waves is totally neutralized in a battle to “take” Kharg Island, and can be maintained indefinitely ...
Taking Kharg intact is checkmate.