Let’s go Brandon
Send the TranSailors! They’ll fix it!
VIDEO AT LINK
Is this the Navy’s Dylan Mulvaney moment? Drag performer Harpy Daniels is Navy’s new ‘digital ambassador’ in bid to boost recruitment that’s set to fall short by 8,000
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, announced he would be the Navy’s first ‘digital ambassador’
The program was part of the Navy’s efforts to ‘reach a wide range of potential candidates’ as it seeks to recruit more Gen Z sailors
Authorities say the Navy is still expected to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goals for the year
Reagan bombed a couple of Iranian oil platforms for harassing Kuwaiti tankers. They stopped doing that real quick.
Bidenoptics. A win-win, right?
They probably see this kind of thing and think, why not?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150407/posts
Our navy striking fear into our enemies:
‘This will certainly strike fear into our enemies’: Fury over Navy’s first ‘digital ambassador’ - non-binary drag queen Harpy Daniels who was appointed to attract new recruits amid crisis
Once again helping free us from petro dependence. Thanks Iran! For helping branDUHn wean us off of erf killing fluids.
will Harpy Daniels send a letter? or morse code?
Is this the same as the Gulf of Tonkin, where it never happened and was made up? IOW I ain’t buying it.
Do you think that that will push oil price is higher? What is the overall intent of Iran in seizing the tanker? It would seem that that would be hostility towards the producer of the oil shipping it to wherever the destination was going to be. Makes no sense.
The longer they get away with it, the more empowered they get, and will keep doing this. Time to start sinking Iranian patrol boats and arm the tankers with stingers...
And they just watched them do it?
OOO how they are sooo scared.
If Trump was pres. that wouldn’t be happening. DeSantis wouldn’t allow it either.
From iranintl.com:
Iran’s Seizure Of Niovi Vessel ‘Entirely Staged’: TankersTrackers
Thursday, 05/04/2023
2 minutes
Author: Iran International Newsroom
Conflict - Military
Iran
Middle East
An online firm tracking crude oil shipments says Iran’s seizure of the Panama-flagged vessel Niovi was ‘staged’.
In the latest escalation in a series of attacks on commercial vessels since 2019, Iran seized a second oil tanker in a week on Wednesday in Persian Gulf waters.
The Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet said the Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi was seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) at 6:20 a.m. (0220 GMT) while passing through the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
TankersTrackers.com said Wednesday that “given the tanker’s history of receiving Iranian oil during the sanctions era as well as being currently empty of cargo, we believe today’s actions were entirely staged.”
Its satellite imagery shows the empty tanker was forcefully redirected by around a dozen IRGC Navy speedboats to the anchorage of Larak and Qeshm Islands south of Iran.
The Niovi oil tanker had been travelling from Dubai toward the UAE’s Fujairah port when it was forced by IRGC boats to change course towards Iranian territorial waters.
Claire Jungman, Chief of Staff of US-based non-profit advocacy organization United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) said a tweet that after reviewing leaked documents UANI strongly suspects the seizure of the Niovi is related to a dispute over a shipment of Iranian oil, tied to the sanctioned company ASB Group.
She further claimed that the oil from the Niovi was sold to another company, without ASB Group’s permission while there are numerous mentions by ASB Group stating that it did not receive payment for the cargo.
“We believe that this seizure was the result of a judicial order following a complaint by a plaintiff,” added Jungman.
ASB is a group of companies owned by a Turkish businessman, which is under US sanctions due to cooperation with the IRGC Quds Force.
Meanwhile, Vedant Patel, a Deputy Spokesperson at the US State Department, told reporters that the Biden administration and the “international community” want Iran and its Navy to release the ships and crews.
According to Patel, Iran’s harassment of vessels and interference with navigation rights in regional and international waters violates international law and threatens regional security and stability.
Separately, Senator James Lankford in reaction to the vessel seizure said Iran remains the top threat in the Middle East. “President Biden must push policy of strength to stop Iran’s behavior,” he added.
The seizure of the Panama-flagged vessel comes after Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman called the Advantage Sweet last Thursday.
Maritime security firm Ambrey said it believed the Advantage Sweet’s seizure by Iran was in response to a recent seizure via a court order by the United States of an oil cargo aboard the Marshall Islands tanker Suez Rajan.