#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #China
What the US naval blockade is accomplishing with respect to China
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Nukes, Israeli spies, and the Canadian PM
#Iran #NuclearIssues
Two US figures share very frank opinions
Scott Ritter on President #StableGenius in the situation room, nuke use and talk of nuke use, generals who refuse illegal orders, the Secretary of #WarCrimes, and starting about minute 14 how the US is broken.
Retired Colonel Douglas mcGregor
a WHOLE bunch of interesting points. Watch the whole video if possible.
STRONG comments about possible offramp and why not basing US forces everywhere would be a good thing.
US has not decided how or when to implement the President's order on nuclear testing.
Part of the back and forth trash talk.
Disrupting Israeli international presence.
Iran Ally Russia Detains, Questions Israelis For Hours In Shocking Moscow Airport Crackdown | VERTEX
Detention of Israeli travelers
Indications that Mossad agents have eyes on Pope Leo XIV over background meetings with Iran
Italy will not use its resources for Israel's purposes
Lawrence O'donell:
Canadian PM calls US President the world's most dangerous and corrupt gangster
Highly Enriched Uranium: HEU
#Iran #NuclearProgram #OperationSapphire #BudapestMemorandum
Readers who want to see RantWoman go off, scroll down past the video and the embedded tweet.
"You can't bomb away their knowledge."
"Trust but verify."
"I think we are going to be dealing with Iran's nuclear program with very few tools...for a long time to come."
Iran just cited the Budapest Memorandum in nuclear talks with Washington.
— Gandalv (@Microinteracti1) April 21, 2026
Let that sink in.
The country America has been bombing for weeks just handed US negotiators a copy of their own promises and asked, politely, how that’s going. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which… https://t.co/eEYALt8lMv
RantWoman pops off:
1. If having an insane leader is a reason for the a country not to have nuclear weapons, should the US expect maybe the Argentinian inspector from the IAEA or someone from Sweden to come knocking at our door needing to secure US nuclear weapons?
2. If RantWoman had her way, Israel would be subject to the same level of inspection that is being demanded of Iran. RantWoman thinks Israel will be able even without use of their nukes to wreak horrific carnage across its neighbors, but subjecting itself to international inspection and monitoring COULD be an interesting trust-building exercise.
3. RantWoman rather likes Iran's "How's that working out for you?" reference to the Budapest memorandum. There is plenty of commentary and a certain amount of lament in reference to Russia's war on Ukraine to Ukraine having given up its nukes. Nukes probably would not solve centuries of tug of war about Crimea but Ukraine would have had interesting cards.
4. Kazakhstan is still cleaning up the consequences of Soviet Nuclear development. Qazaq national identity is grappling with that and, among other things, writing in Latin alphabet instead of Cyrillic.
5. Nostalgia is not exactly the right word, but RantWoman hearkens back to the halcyon days of #StableGenius 1.0 when the President was showing off something pretending to be The Art of the Deal threatening North Korea with nuclear war over Twitter. To this day, RantWoman has no idea why those threats were not deemed a violation of Twitter user agreements, but anyway.
RantWoman has no exact knowledge of whether that got anywhere or whether the world has just figured out how to live with North Korean nukes. RantWoman does, though, wonder whether conversation would get anywhere if one asked the Dementia Patient in Chief "how's thatworking out for you?" about his previous approach to North Korea. If the President's brain is too far along turning into pudding, is there some lesson the rest of us need to draw.
Terrifying and boring
#Iran #StraitofHormuz
This post dedicated to the 20,000 mariners stuck on cargo ships and oilers in the Persian Gulf because of military activity.
Every day "Check the crazy. Check the crazy."
50 countries with a common interest to re-open the Strait
European countries "We are not belligerents. We were not consulted...DIPLOMACY"
Veterans Protest Iran War at US Capitol.
#Iran #Veterans
whether or not readers need for RantWoman to go off: it is offensive to be shipping more people off to another foreign war when the US is still not fully paying off the costs of previous endless wars. Especially offensive is the veterans' administration' chicanery with VA supported housing financing now forcing many military families into foreclosure and homelessness. And we will not even talk about PTSD and other service-related medical issues.
Anyway, now the protest videos
This video is incredibly moving
"It is absurd to me that (Congress isn't) doing anything.
And words from the generals
In search of a victory narrative
#Iran #Israel
RantWoman is probably going to skip a daily posting from What's going on with Shipping and related is the strait open / is it closed back and forth.
It is all Silly. DANGEROUS but silly. President #StableGenius is demonstrating more and more signs of dementia, lack of orientation to time and space, inability to stay anywhere near the topic at hand. He apparently had to be kicked out of the situation room during the Easter weekend pilot rescue. General Cain refused an order just to launch nuclear weapons. Even comparison with parodies dating from 2020 show how stunningly he has deteriorated.
Instead, comments on the situation from other angles.
Oops: Iran missiles take out supposedly stealth US built Israeli aircraft.
TONS of military jargon.
Oh rats: Thanks to Iran air defense Israel can't just mindlessly bomb "engagement zones."
poll report about view of israel in the US
contrast with NPR report about the very high percentage of people in Israel who strongly approve of Israel's current military campaigns
Monday, April 20, 2026
Navy opens fire: futures market crashes
#Iran
US forces disable (sanctioned) vessel. Retaliation for Friday attacks by Iran.
RantWoman has no opinion about ramifications, but appreciates the details.
Engine disabled in daylight
Mention of ships hit yesterday by Iran
Plenty of lies about Iran capabilities.
Tit for tat retaliation hitting civilian infrastructure.
two versions of events from Iran sources
UAE wants to trade oil in Yuan
Marines board at night
Has President #StableGenius bleated absurd threat into another hitch in negotiations?
UAE wants US weapons and bases out, as well as financial support or else if they run out of dollars they will trade oil in yuan.
(RantWoman had predicted durimg Trump 1.0 that oil might not be traded in dollars by the end of that administration. RantWoman's timeline was just off.)
And ...
Friday, April 17, 2026
Your friendly local police union is just here to protect...
We interrupt RantWoman's daily diet of #Iran #Russia #Ukraine postings for something a little more local.
Enjoy?
Adventures of RantWoman: SPOG says city's ICE policies put public at risk: Oh PLEASE
Adventures of RantWoman: AHEM. Blowing whistles is protected first amendment activity...and...
Escalation and why it won't work; what's at stake
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz
RantWoman is not going to attempt to summarize this one. Basic point: future is NOT as rosy as others are trying to sell it and LOTS of risks!
Emphasis on "resource sovreignty"
END THIS NOW
CUT DEFENSE SPENDING
Education system underpowered
Discussion of full Iranian defensive infrastructure.
Discussion of full technical interaction of electronic warfare in Amphibious strike group with 2200 marines on the strike group ready to act on order.
BIG gap between US amphibious strike group under full electronic cover and unarmed oil tanker whose company has to make risk calculation.
Iran did not attack. Restraint,
Iran redlines:
--Acknowledgment that Strait is strategic asset for Iran
--war reparations
--unfreezing sanctioned funds
BOTH sides facing choices that will be domestically unpopular.
Several other topical videos on this channel
Thursday, April 16, 2026
The President is Bonkers, chapter n+1
RantWoman wants desperately to believe that no one is beyond the mercy of God.
President #StableGenius keeps testing that hope, beefing with the Pope, among other apparently ludicrous babblings.
RantWoman would be thrilled, THRILLED if #GrandpaSleepyhead were simply to get tired of the endless hassles, resign and settle into genteel retirement full of golf and napping. RantWoman would consider that such an act of mercy, Divine or otherwise that RantWoman might be able to bypass the temptation on everyone's lips to try to charge him again and again for many crimes and misdemeanors. But if the dude is not competent to be President, he also is not competent to stand trial.
RantWoman thinks she has said this before, but is stuck on the idea. Set him up with a constant AI feed of over-the-top adulation. Don't let him travel anywhere except between his own properties. As long as his hands are off the nuclear codes and the world does not have to fret about his decrepitating body and deteriorating mental capacity, he can have all the sycophants he wants assuring him he is the greatest ever, without too many specifics about greatest at what.
Instead, RantWoman's media streams keep bringing more evidence that the President is just bonkers. Here a few examples.
Is #DementiaDon the AntiChrist?
Does GenZ understand the phrase "jump the shark?"
Performative criticism but no action
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Today in Naval Blockade: the story is the system that makes Iran confident enough to keep testing limits
#Iran #StraitOf Hormuz
"Expect this blockade to last a long time."
short answer: US cannot pump fast enough to fill all the empty tankers.
Gas prices likely will stay high.
SPR = Strategic Petroleum Reserve ?
Look up "Commander Salamander"
Ah, but from Scott Ritter
15 Warships, Zero Results: How One Chinese Tanker Broke America's Blockade in 12 Hours| Scott Ritter
Saudi Arabia is frantic about the Blockade
Malawi has no official ship registry is the ship in question is legally stateless. The ship in question was spoofing location for days.
Able to load Iranian product at an Omani Port
Part of the global shadow fleet
China and Iran have been working on the technologies and plans of evasion for decades.
Gap between what CentCom says and what the US navy can enforce
The ship did turn back but the gap is plain to see.
RantWoman's interpretation: Ha. Ha. US is being told the strait is blockaded but there are big legal holes. Both shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz are Iranian territorial waters. US ships going there would be an act of war. Multiple paths to escalation, but de-escalation? Who blinks first? Don't bet on Iran / China
And from Iran:
"No port in the Gulf is safe unless all ports are safe"
Iran is not talking to the US. It's talking to every gulf state with some kind of oil activity on the Gulf.
Saudi Arabia pressing the US to end the blockade and return to negotiations.
You do not need big boats to blow up an aircraft carrier.
Iran is also threatening the Red Sea. Houthis have not stood by so far.
US is managing 5 things at once: US silence is strategic but has risks. Iran trying to split the US from regional partners.
Sales to China greater than before war.
China used shadow tankers and second tier banks not in the SWIFT network. Iran is getting paid in yuan, not dollars. So Iran has economic oxygen to sustain itself.
China preparing to send shoulder-launched weapons to Iran.
The confidence ladder
Iran threatened every port because confident of Chinese moves.
US treating China and Russia as spectators.
RantWoman has not checked the sources cited as part of this interpretation.
And for different scenarios, different interpretations
Who is alone? Who has how much time?
Belle on Automatic Draft Registration and the Pope in politics
One of RantWoman's favorite YouTube voices, esteemed for packing a lot of punch into few words and for taking on lots of questions politely and with solid information.
The video is pithy. Catch all the points.
"The Book of Donald"
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
A very expensive press release? Signals. Supplies, Strait
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz
The USS Milius turned around
Scott Ritter on destroyer coming about, reversing course
RantWoman interpretation:
Watch the whole video. RantWoman is not going just to recap it. It is full of geographic and strategic realities for Iran and the kinds of topics intelligence analysts discuss in minute detail. De-escalation is wise and possible. SO FAR, sane voices have prevailed. A request went up the chain of command and the tactically correct order came back. Maybe it means the Secretary of #WarCrimes has not succeeded in purging all the competent voices in the Pentagon. A couple other protective maybes come to mind; RantWoman is not going to articulate them for fear of ruining them.
Quotes
3 Options
Military escalation
Diplomatic climb down
Send in an aircraft carrier
Sun Tzu
War is not won by the side with the most missiles. War is one by the side that causes the other side to lose its will to fight.
The ultimate audience: China
And a couple other videos
multiple scenarios. messy legal questions for different options
Blockade meant to increase leverage on Iran
A test of wills and time.
The US has historically underestimated Iranian resilience.
Has Iran discovered the Strait of Hormuz as a form of deterrence?
RIGHT TO ENRICH important to Iran
Israel wants regime change. US focus more on nuclear program.
Tragic that nothing directed at Iranian people now stuck with a more hard line regime, increased economic strain. (Isarel, US overconfident that bombing will facilitate regime change)
NEGOTIATIONS
More US forces in transit to region
Who benefits more from lull?
Situation "unsustainable"
Refueling problem for US and longer term shortage of Tomahawk cruise missiles
For Iran, air defense, possibly resupplied by China and / or Russia.
Hard to expect both a lasting cease fire and closed strait of Hormuz
China is world's largest buy of Iranian oil so why veto UN resolution on opening the Strait.
STRATEGY
Original resolution text "all necessary means," Escalation with legal backing.
China said No 3 times as language got adjusted over and over
China calculates decades ahead.
(RantWoman reminds readers that President #StableGenius and kin have MANY investments in China. He benefits either way. Also note Chinese heavy investment in alternative energy resources while President #StableGenius has been cancelling such projects left, right, and sideways)
Every week that the strait remains closed increases pressure to trade about oil in currencies other than the dollar.
China has multiple forms of buffers for energy resilience
Chinese Ambassador comments that the resolution does not address root cause of problems. Clear demonstration that international law should not be selectively applied.
China now frames itself as defender of national sovreignty
Military legal economic narrative
Leverage, timing, narrative
Counter argument: Who runs out of time first?
US
Iran only needs to avoid losing fast.
China is not sending armies... just the ability to say "no."
And one of several more videos by Professor Jiang.
Saudi Arabie begs the US not to blockade Strait
DoD disinformation.
President #StableGenius beefs with the pope
#Iran #PopeLeoXIV #Christians
Disgusting Prayer from the Secretary of #WarCrimes before wonderful statements from Pope Leo
Monday, April 13, 2026
Today in the Persian Gulf: "A blockade is an act of war"
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz UN COnvention on the law of the Sea
Sal gets that a blockade is an act of war but says NOTHING about Congress engaging about the issue.
Dueling blockades intended to get people back to negotiating in Islamabad?? WHO intends?
Biggest buyers of Iranian Oil: China, India, Pakistan
Deal with Blockade runner by:
log and let go
Board and inspect Seize but crew could lock selves into ...in a way that boarding forces cannot even steer
Warning shot that is not heeded. but who at war with if the ships are flagged by...?
Planting season and no one is getting fertilizer chemicals.
Prime quality ranting from The Damage Report
Open the strait. Now close the strait
Why is the US navy blockading the Strait of Hormuz when Iran supposedly has no navy?
The President is getting more and more instable.
Look for Malcolm Nance substack "enter the dragon" about ways China could enter the war.
Blockade wording: originating from Iranian ports but ships from other ports could pay the
Sal looking forward to another week even more "batshit crazy."
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz
posturing with points that can still be negotiated over.
multiple videos agree that anything that last months in the Straits of Hormuz and that will be felt worldwide in multiple ways.
Look how vulnerable US bases are.
A nuclear weapons power in how many months?
Iranian submarines are small enough to navigate in parts of the Persian Gulf where large US submarines cannot even enter.
US claims that all Iran submarines have been destroyed is wrong. You cannot destroy what you cannot detect.
Europe has mine sweeper capacity that can work in the Persian Gulf but is withholding use.
Financial incentives for both sides to avoid escalation.
Why did Iran show up is Islamabad?
"Mines may drift."
Iran lost a whole bunch of things but they still have leverage.
"In what world is it politically advisable to attack the Pope?"
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Did an Iranian missile hit Dimona, the Israeli nuclear weapons site for a third hit.
#Iran #Israel #Dimona
YouTube has multiple reports from Al Jazeera, the BBC and other sources about missile strikes two weeks ago about the Israeli nuclear weapons complex at Dimona. RantWoman does not remember this coming up in the media streams RantWoman consumes most regularly. RantWoman thinks it may be too early to expect other reporting about the incident discussed in the video below.
This video contains reference to automatically generated audio, a point which always makes RantWoman treat the content with caution. That said, RantWoman can also easily see the point about governments not necessarily wanting to advertise strikes like the ones outlined here. Finally, RantWoman observes that former inspector Ritter has acquired the kind of black mark which sometimes comes to someone known for telling too much of the truth.
The basic points:
--After 3 rounds of missile strikes, containment around the Dimona reactor is almost certainly damaged.
--There is a serious question about whether missile strikes could result in wide dispersion of radionuclides even if there is no reactor meltdown.
--One indicator of damage would be increased presence of radionuclides in the atmosphere around the area. Apparently, Israel is doing nothing to warn there population but Jordan is distributing potassium iodide prophylactically to border towns.
But RantWoman, do readers really care about one more problematic nuclear site and a bunch of missile verbiage?
Here's why RantWoman decided to post this.
The world demands nuclear inspection in Iran, but Israel REFUSES to allow IAEA inspections, does not sign the Nonproliferation Treaty. WHY should Israel be the only country in the Middle east permitted to have nuclear weapons? What if the world demanded that Israel also give up nuclear weapons?
What if the world demanded of Israel the same level of scrutiny and limits on nuclear program that are being demanded of Iran?
As an aside for all the people saying some version of "we have been trying to curtail Iran's nuclear program for decades. Now is the time so future generations don't have to deal with it:" Note: 20% of Iran's population is under 14 and overall Iran's population skews younger than the US. Shouldn't the world be setting an example of dealing positively with nuclear issues instead of colidifying resentments for another generation to seethe with???
And furthermore, if there is some general principle about governments that are too crazy not being allowed to have nuclear weapons, shouldn't the US look in the mirror and worry about some self-important foreign power showing up "for our own good?"
Just some thoughts?
And the Strait of Hormuz?
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz
RantWoman thinks Sal is more likely to know what he is atlking about as far as vessel types and traffic than other sources.
A US Warship Just Tested Iran In The Strait Of Hormuz
Freedom of navigation, not minesweeping or escort.
President says US has started process of mine CLEARING
Frame in terms of getting conditions in place... and some demonstrated steps.
Iran SCRAMBLES Drones Against U.S. Navy – Pilots Possibly CAPTURED
There’s a Ceasefire. So Why Isn’t the Strait of Hormuz Open?
Backfired: Has Iran Learned the Power of Closing Hormuz?
No, all the possible takes do not simplify calculations. That's the POINT
"Most people DON'T REALIZE Trump IS FORCED to CLEAR Strait of Hormuz MINES!!" | Bill Clinton
"Does the US still have the strategic credibility to lead?"
Will a pep talk from former President Clinton help the country?
Hormuz STILL Closed — Trump Accuses Iran of Violating the Ceasefire Before Talks Even Begin!!
structure issue with multiple different versions of the 10-point plan supposedly the basis of the cease fire.
News of the Secretary of #WarCrimes
Click Bait headline
The troops deserve "courageous leaders of character."
Mark Hertling about Hegseth saying troops are "fighting for Jesus."
And some corruption where Hegseth has previously been mentioned
"If everyone in the US felt the risk...more people who be outraged."
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Poor in dollars not poor in talent
#Iran #Israel #GPS #Spoofing
Find the vulnerability. Attack the vulnerability.
Who all can do GPS denial / spoofing?
Oh no, what will happen to the market for US weapons exports?
One wants both to corroborate this content with other sources and to observe tartly that sanctions which starve civilian populations also create conditions where military technologies evolve in very efficient low resource input directions. Smoke that everyone who says the US needs to spend more money on defense.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Thursday, April 9, 2026
This isn't a car dealership. It's a war
#Ceasefire #Iran
"It's not a reason to keep fighting. It's a reason to better fund our schools."
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Chris Nordlund on the latest wackiness
#Iran #CeaseFire #TollScheme
LOTS of wacky and possibly delusional fantasies from #DonSnoreleone
newly created polymarket accounts before announcement of the Ceasefire.
also movement in oil market
quotes from multiple international sources
Sal on the "Cease Fire," the law of the sea and 20,000 mariners stuck in the gulf
#Iran Strait of Hormuz #CeaseFire ?
So Iran wants to collect tolls IN CRYPTO for allowing boats to pass in its territorial waters.
And who besides probably Don Jr and maybe the Secretary of #WarCrimes and whoever else keeps placing big bets before key events.
How will this mess mutate next?
And can SOMEONE please take note of all the stuck, unarmed merchant vessels with stressed out crews and short supplies.
The "Rescue," reporting, and literally everyone pulling away and calling out.
#Iran #Rescue
"narrative warfare"
"nonkinetic warfare"
Random speculation: did the President going off on Easter Sunday have something to do with the actual details of the "rescue" operation?
And as for the initial reporting
Private company caves to US administration but Russia and China are happy to provide images
Efforts to hide US military and contractor casualty counts, impact on bases, destruction of planes, energy infrastructure
$400 Million in US equipment lost
Um, no, air superiority
"the Tom Clancy uranium hunt"
also speculation that rescue story was part of the trigger for the Easter message
Also draw on The Intercept
Allies say no, pull away.
no using bases or air space for war crimes
MBS did not ask US for permission to buy interceptors from Ukraine
Chris Nordlund
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Commentary about The "Ceasefire"
#Iran
RantWoman is, like every othr sane person on the planet, relieved that the President has decided, at least for now, not to attempt to destroy an entire civilization.
First, words from Lawrence O'Donell. Then various comentators.
Check out the Zeteo vid in particular.
1. If having an insane government means a country should not have nuclear weapons, time for the world to subtract nuclear weapons from the US.
2. There is NO WAY the #DonSnoreleone and Bibi can bomb Iran into regime change. If anything, everyone in Iran is going to do the same thing that people in the US did after 9/11.
3. Way past time for #GrandpaSleepyhead to RESIGN and retire to a genteel life of golf and napping. Declare Mar a Lago a permanent home for the criminally insane. Allow him only to travel between his golf courses and always under guard.
4. Fix him up with a permanent AI loop of cheering crowds and ever-increasing click counts on a social media equivalent of a closed-circuit TV with very limited audience.
5. No pardons, but if he is incompetent to be President, he is also incompetent to stand trial. Concentrate on going after all his enablers.
6. And if we really want to stand up against this nonsense, a windfall profit tax on every company making extra big bank from all the price shocks.
Monday, April 6, 2026
Israel oh Israel
#Israel
CONTENT WARNING: graphic description of torture.
The latest Israeli "achievements" in the realm of human rights
Did Dems utter confusion and inability to speak plainly about Israeli atrocities doom them in 2024? What does that bode for the midterms???
Will enough US taxpayers grow DISGUSTED about spending US tax dollars to support these atrocities, these apartheid policies??? Or ....
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Will planes getting shot down change anyone's approach to the war?
#Iran #MiddleEast
RantWoman takes a realist view of videos such as this one. It is useful to know how other people think even if one disagrees with multiple implied premises.
Forget about thr bridge destruction because US planes go shot down.
From Al Jazeera
short explanation of game theory
"Professor" Jiang says Iran has strategic advantage
Will President #StableGenius send ground troops ...?
Also about Israel
And other vids of the day.
Let's swap military leadership in the middle of a war
And speaking of Pam Bondi
Thursday, April 2, 2026
What's Going on with Shipping today: SOME ships going through the Strait of Hormuz
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz
RantWoman is presenting coverage from sources she considers well-informed. Presenting information is not necessarily endorsement of specific policy recommendations.
Random takeaways:
President #StableGenius is bonkers. For example US Merchant Marine academy cadets stuck on ships in the Persian Gulf.
One reference to something US troops MIGHT be doing
Ship passage appears to be in national territorial waters, Iran to the N and someone else to the S.
RantWoman cynical comment: the oil market is global. If global prices go up, US oil companies are going to make out like bandits at least for awhile.
Sal says it could take MONTHS to straighten out the impact on world trade of having the Strait of Hormuz closed as long as it has been.
Recreational Blood Pressure elevation but not only from Ambassador Bolton
#Iran
#NuclearWeapons
RantWoman definitely does not share every assumption articulated by Ambassador Bolton but does find some of his commentary informative and relevant.
RantWoman will spell out issues with assumptions elsewhere.
Rep. Moskowitz is my hero: oversight of the Pentagon compared to just taking an ax to US-AID
2.5 TRILLION dollars cannot be accounted for by the Pentagon.
And who has $200 BILLION for more #WarOfChoice in the middle east?
Channel description describes sources in general terms.
Comments refer to "AI slop." RantWoman caught one inaccuracy but is not going to listen again to point it out. Anyway, approach with care.
RantWoman is going to subscribe at least for a little while to see what gets cranked out and how the quality looks.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
GENIUS trolling about the "Golden Dome"
Ben Cohen NAILS IT. No joke
RantWoman finds this gesture hilarious on multiple counts.
The US is down one AWACS and ...
#MiddleEast #Excursion
If a country has a little excursion that goes all "kinetic," but leaves a bunch of very expensive military hardware out in sight of satellites and much cheaper drones....
Can you spot the arguments that might be made for more, more, more defense spending?
Update and The real humanitarian disaster in the Strait of Hormuz: 20,000 mariners stuck with dwindling supplies, fuel, fresh food and water
#Iran #Shipping
Various takeaways:
President #StableGenius is apparently misrepresenting the degree to which the Strait of Hormuz is open, as in a daily single digit trickle of ships apparently sailing in Iranian territorial waters and paying a toll to Iran.
Interesting video of an actual shipping transiting the Strait.
Big ships are pretty resilient to missile and drone attacks
20,000 stuck on vessels with problems about supplies because the ships are not moving. See long description from X on the other side of the video
div>Absolutely right to highlight the human tragedy behind the headlines. While geopolitics and shipping lanes dominate discussions, we must not forget the 20,000–40,000 seafarers trapped on stranded vessels in the Persian Gulf amid the ongoing conflict. Many face severe shortages of… https://t.co/feSjhTZTjn
— Pravesh Jain (@PRAVESHPARAS) April 1, 2026
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