I dont understand why Trump changed his strategy. Go back to what you were doing at the beginning. Target the leadership and keep targetting them, until someone surrenders.
Did you also catch the Written declaration that the straits are controlled by Iran? How about the radio message sent to ships Directing them that they are in Iranian waters and they must comply with Directions given? Both were on fox news today
Trump is trying desperately to keep a lid on this And Iran are doing all within their powers To blow that lid off.
In my humble opinion Trump is trying to Grow some time For someone else, Not Israel or the US, To take this monkey off his back And restore order By any means necessary. Gulf States, you have the means to do this.
Expect oil prices to surge By Sunday afternoon And if not then soon.
How. Just how. How is their navy above water. Vaporize Tehran.
Bombs away!
The only leverage that Iran has is the Strait of Hormiz. Regardless of agreements, they are never going to open it fully unless forced to do so and having no other choice.
I thought we had planes and copters patrolling the Strait of Hormuz
24/7. How did we miss a drone being fired at a ship?
Just a consideration-
An idea-
Maybe not applicable here, but just a general idea to consider.
In a professional, disciplined, military with real command and control (with the ability to track things fairly well), ROE that are adhered to (generally), you don’t get a lot of folks doing their own thing.
I say usually because even we have incidents where folks do things out of line may it be prisoner abuses, executing POW... It happens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Behenna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Hatley
But in places like Gaza, with Hezbollah, or even the Iranian forces, especially after we took out some of the leadership, one has to ask oneself if their own remaining leadership really has the level of control we have, and even we have hiccups?
Meaning, the boss says one thing, the underlings just do whatever the hell they want.
This causes for a case of the “strategic corporal.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Block_War
Where some lowly nugg takes it upon himself to do something which has strategic / national implications and goes contrary to their national laws, policies, orders, social norms...
Why in the past you had direct lines of communications for the most senior leaders between the US and Russia. You could literally have one side pick up the phone and ask the other guy “WTF?” And if the other side say’s “I dunno,” you might have a situation where if you react to fast you set wheels in motion that are going in the completely wrong direction.
To fix this, of course would be easy. If you have someone step out of line, immediately point this out to the other side (transparency) and take appropriate action to remedy this, discouraging others by punishing the one who did this. Also, there needs to be a “senior leader channel of communication” between both sides to head off mistakes because trust is very low and there is a lot of pressure to take immediate action.
“They want to keep oil prices high to hurt Trump and Republicans in the mid-terms.”
So Trump has a set of villains, and it’s on again, and the villains are the Ayatoilet regime, and because of all the buttons of theirs he pushed (E.g., Ghalibaf has agreed to use the 300 billion that we’re not giving them yet, to buy American farm products/lol), they’ve been fighting among themselves, and now it’s on again. One big troll.
The “International Maritime Organization” seems like an enemy.
Confiscate territories. They might understand that. Just keep chiping away pieces of Iran till they do.
Really? Gas price alone determines what a voter does?
Maybe to idiots.