Posted on 03/12/2026 11:05:45 PM PDT by Trump20162020
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump’s national security team failed to fully account for the potential consequences of what some officials have described as a worst-case scenario now facing the administration, the sources said.
And now it may be weeks before the administration’s efforts to alleviate the intensifying economic fallout take hold, officials said Thursday, including high-risk naval escorts of oil tankers through the strait that the Pentagon believes are currently too dangerous to conduct. The president, meanwhile, has continued to downplay the tumult in energy markets.
The reality in the strait has left diplomatic counterparts, former US economic and energy officials and industry executives who spoke with CNN in a state of confusion and disbelief.
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session.
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That seems impossible. Even teenagers on Instagram knew that a war would close the Straits of Hormouz.
“ according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.”
Like who?
Hard pass, CNN.
Or maybe they didnt, but had to push through with the risks of war with Iran.
What are we gaining from this war?
Some American women learning what their life will be like should the Muslims take over the USA.
This by the large number of Persian women who are refugees in western nations speaking out and demonstrating against our clueless leftist rioters.
This may change the way some western women vote and behave in the future.
Dead terrorists.
“What are we gaining from this war?”
More debt and more enemies.
“{...officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes ...
That seems impossible. Even teenagers on Instagram knew that a war would close the Straits of Hormouz.”
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There has been nothing to suggest our attack on Iran was a well planned operation after the “shock and awe” part was over. The only way to force an opponent to see things our way is boots on the ground, occupation, and a military governor for as long as it takes.
““What are we gaining from this war?”
More debt and more enemies.”
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$2 billion a day and rising. When oil reaches $200 a barrel, our economy will tank just like the rest of the world.
Good enough, right there.
The rest is extra benefits.
If you want to see what the rest of the world thinks :)..
Check out the comments
Watch and learn !
I’d like to think that the US Navy could go in and escort oil freighters safely through the straits, but they won’t. Too dangerous.
The effort has been gobstoppingly amazing !
Losses have been minimal.
Civilian losses minimized.
And now precise attacks on the road block troops.
bflr
What can US Navy escorts do other than be targets themselves ?
The countries affected by the closure are the Arab seller and China, India, S Korea, Japan buyers.
NOT OUR PROBLEM.
You, an enemy of the USA get nothing.
We get a massive state sponsor of terror with nukes knocked off the chessboard.
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