>>2720433This leftychud gets it
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/03/war-on-iran-hormuz-escorts-kurds-time-frame.htmlWar On Iran – Hormuz Escorts, Kurds, Time-frame
>A few of the many interesting current developments of the war on Iran that stand out.
>Trump has announced that the U.S. will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz:
<US President Donald Trump said he intends to secure shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, which is threatened by Iran, including with the US Navy.
<“If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible,” he posted on his platform Truth Social on Tuesday. “No matter what, the United States will ensure the FREE FLOW of ENERGY to the WORLD.”
<Additionally, he has instructed the relevant United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to offer risk insurance and guarantees for all maritime trade in the region. The measure is primarily aimed at energy transport but is available to all shipping companies.
>Some 20% of the global supplies of oil, LPG and fertilizers have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran had long announced that the Strait would be closed if the country would come under attack. It has held to its promise. A few small ships have since tried to pass through the Strait but were stopped by Iranian strike impacts. Ship insurance companies have stopped to provide cover for any passage of the Strait.
>Trump still does not understand the geographic facts of the Hormuz.
>Its open water width. over a length of some 100+ kilometer, is only about 40 kilometer. Its shipping lanes for large vessels are narrow and just 20 kilometer off the coast of Iran.
>The usual way for a navy to secure such a passage would be to launch a severe bombing campaign to eliminate all radar and missile positions along the coastline. Only after such a campaign would attempts be made to pass the strait.
>But the Iranian landscape along the coast is largely mountainous. There are many shelters to hide anti-ship missiles or drones. Ships passing the Strait can be seen by the naked eye (or through infrared devices during night time.) A swarm of medium range drones would overwhelm the air-defenses of any Navy escort trying to help tankers to pass through the strait. And that is before Iran decides to drop mines into the strait’s waters.
>Hoping for escorts to help one to pass the Strait is like hiring body guards when your enemy is known to be a long range snipers. A hopeless endeavor.
>I am sure that the Navy will find ways to let Trump know how futile the escorts would be.
>Iran has known for a long time that its biggest advantage in a war is the economic damage it can cause. Two of the global long range air carriers, the Emirates and Qatar airlines, can no longer fly to their main hubs in the Gulf states. Sea freight will also soon be down to a trickle:
<Maersk said on Wednesday it is temporarily suspending most cargo bookings in and out of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia until further notice.
<The Jeddah and King Abdullah ports in Saudi Arabia and the Salalah port in Oman remained operational while the shipping group is also still accepting cargo to and from Jordan and Lebanon.
>The White House seems to have given little though about the global economic and other damage that its war against Iran would cause.
>This can also be seen in the ever extending time-frame for its campaign. What started with a ‘days’, ‘a week’, ‘four weeks’ long campaign has now again doubled:
<Hegseth says war with Iran could last 8 weeks
<The defense secretary says the timeline could go further than previously speculated. “You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three,” he says. “Ultimately, we set the pace and the tempo.”
>Another sign that the U.S. campaign has lacked thorough planning is the late activation of proxy forces for fighting Iran on its own ground:
<The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces inside Iran. President Trump called Kurdish leaders personally over the weekend — and on Tuesday spoke directly with Mustafa Hijri, president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, whose camps the IRGC had just struck with drones.
>The Kurds do, as usual, lack unity and regional backing. Neither Iraq nor Turkey will silently sit by while the U.S. and Israel are forming another armed militia that will eventually threaten their states. Iranian nationalist, including the ones who oppose the Islamic Republic, will not welcome ethnic minorities to take over parts of their nation. For decades the U.S. had propped up Kurds to fight Saddam in Iraq and Assad in Syria. They – in the end – lost in both cases. The U.S. may pretend to prop up Iranian Kurds for a while but chances are high that they will be defeated and left hanging.
>The U.S. has also decided to widen the regional reach of the war. A U.S. submarine has torpedoed and sunk an Iranian navy vessel in the Indian Ocean:
<A U.S. Navy attack submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, the Pentagon has confirmed. Authorities in Sri Lanka had earlier announced they had rescued Iranian sailors from the Moudge class frigate IRIS Dena after what they said appeared to be a submarine attack. This is the first known attack by an American submarine on a surface warship since World War II and the first such action anywhere since the Churchill class HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine Navy cruiser ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982.
>The U.S. assault on a non-threatening Iranian asset far from the war zone will legitimate Iranian retaliation on U.S. assets world wide. >>272042880% of all "breaking news" posts you see on Xitter are straight out made up lies. For any claim you see made without evidence to back it up, it's safe to assume it's bullshit.
10 years from now magatards will claim they were against the war from day 1
LYLE LYLE TURN ON THE TV THEY HIT THE PENTAGON
AN IRANIAN MISSILE HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON
>>2720491>97%Close enough.
>>2720502You fucking retard. What does that have to do with what you're replying to? It's not reporting on an OSINT account or whatever bullshit. I swear to god most of you only have the barest levels of pattern recognition.
>I see that is twitter! Therefore it is fake news! >>2720504nothing ever happens
>>2720395welcome to /leftypol/ in 2026
hope you enjoy your inevitable and barely comprehensible ban if you decide to stay
>>2720494materialistchuds BTFO
>>2720508It's been like this for years now
>>2720503I mean, a lot of the 4chuds are. But I don't know if you can call any of them "magatards" seeing how nobody who is against the war still supports Trump.
>>2720504It doesn't matter what channel!
man I WISH Iran had ICBM
>>2720395mods are gay and care more about shilling ugly shirts no one buys than having a functional forum
>>2720515>we're in for the long haul, and iran plans to make treatlerites hurt immensely.But how are they going to do that? Sanction us?
>>2720500>“If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible,” he posted on his platform Truth Social on Tuesday.It's a random brainfart that he'll fail to deliver or straight out walk back on in a week's time. *yawn*
>>2720515you don't have to come for me like that wtf dude
>>2720519uhh by blowing up the gulf states and closing the strait of hormuz which threatens the hyper fragile, extremely inflated private investment bubble that relies on inputs from all over the place
>>2720512MAGA is just the latest incarnation of reactionaries trying to push Republicans further right and make actual Nazism mainstream.
>>2720483Huh? It's right there in the image. Are you literally going blind grandpa?
>>2720515>picDamn, fuck that guy, i'd hate to be like him.
Good thing i don't eat fast-food.
>>2720525How would that effect me more than anyone else in the world?
>>2720519They could fuck up the global oil market and therefore everything downstream of that
>>2720395it was deserved stfu
>>2720532by making your bank run out of money, and unlike the rest of the world, you are uninsured.
iran must attack the kri if kurds in rojhelat rise up
Holy shit, this thread is full.
Dammit. Imma have to bake again.
>PLEASE HOLD WHILE I BAKE THE BREAD
In the meanwhile:
<PLEASE COME UP WITH A FUNNY SPONSOR FOR THE THREAD
>Knights of columbus were last thread
>Charlie Kirk is this thread
>>2720539Sponsored by /pol/tards whining that Trump is the wrong kind of racist. (They deserve to die at the hands of Iran)
The Iraqi kurdish invasion thing seems like disinfo?
>>2720539This is real btw
>>2720542Deal.
>>2720543it must be, i mean if you are stupid enough to ask guarantees from trump right now, i feel the kurdish separatists will walk themselves under the iranian tanks and die anyway.
>>2720411free yourself from your polyp brainworms
>>2720487Of course a bunch of racist old fucks who have no skin in the game and aren't suffering any direct material consequence from all this violence don't really care about it. Iran has to impose severe material punishment on the US in order to motivate actual rejection of the war in the american people, it's the only way. Let's see what those opinion pools look like after a full ground invasion and 100k dead ZOGbots later.
>>2720541What i don't understand is, aside everything else, why on earth would you broadcast this? Just want to make sure it'll be a suicide run?
>>2720551I assure you it is imperative that namefags first make themselves look complete fools before they can get mad at someone clowning on them and leave
>>2720562It might be CIA disinformation aimed at the Iranian authorities and meant to make them paranoid and distracted.
>>2720539Epstein's Berserkers
>>2720411>Reports of messiah-speek from NCOsThat part is just Hegseth's mental retardation trickling down the military command chain. Read a summary of his book American Crusade. The dude is a total lunatic and has 1000% been brainwashed by zionist christian eschatology.
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