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Posted on 07/13/2026 7:30:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll become the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that,” he said. “When we do that we’re going to be reimbursed because the other nations are very wealthy, they’re on our side, and we can’t be expected to do that for nothing unlike we had for many years.”
“We guarded the strait for 50 years, and we never got paid for it,” he added. “We guarded it for nothing.”
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced Sunday that it “completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran” and struck “dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.”
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade. Iran does not control it,” Centcom said. “U.S. forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available to commercial shipping despite Iran’s continued unwarranted aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations.”
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What could go wrong?
Hopefully, if the world complains about this offer, the US will just walk away from Hormuz and say “We don’t actually care. Solve that problem yourself.”
That is simply wrong. This is a UN Security Council function. Here is an opportunity to provide needed substance to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST).
The nations that need the Gulf oil should be sending their own navies to secure passage.
I don’t think the US needs Gulf oil, do we?
We were never reimbursed for Gulf Wars 1 and 2! What makes him think the backstabbing Arabs will reimburse us for this!
No, we're selling the oil from our strategic reserve to ship overseas. Apparently we don't need it at all...
I see this as a way of forcing China to knock some sense into the idiot Iranian leadership. We aren’t dependent on Hormuz - but China is.
Hopefully, this will be funded by seizure of Iranian oil.
Pulling our chain again...but there’s a point to it...If not us...then who?
In the meantime...alternate routes are being constructed...
Oh sure, Zimbabwe will get right on it with their navy and air force as part of the UN force.
Rubio presented a pretty good case for why only the US can do much of this.
I wish the gulf states would man up and just take Iran but 90,000,000 Shiite Insanians might protest.
It’s just schtick.
Nope
L.O.S.T.
The US does not recognize LOST.
Starmer said he was going to defend the straits AFTER Iran agreed not to attack shipping under the MOU. Iran then stated they control the straits and attacked shipping. Needless to say, Britain defended nothing. They are Lucy and the football except they, in their case don’t even have a football or a naval fleet.
So now the US will be extorting other nations for passage through the Strait that was fully open a few months ago? They need to protect from a military which has been decimated several times? Whose navy has been destroyed, supposedly?
The US needs inexpensive oil.
Free market oil is a fungible commodity. A barrel of crude oil is interchangeable, regardless of where it is extracted.
Crap. We ARE the “World’s Policeman®”
US will do a good job and keep the World economy flowing.
Why not take out Iran’s new leader and put a stop to this nonsense....?
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