Despite the propaganda from the West, Iran is keeping the Straits closed indefinitely (except for their allies). This was signposted by Iran to try to deter the Zionist neocon warmongers but clearly they didn’t care or take it seriously. Now we will all pay for Netanyahu’s insane war with higher energy and food prices.
Let’s not minimize the US Republicans culpability here. They bear just as much responsibility for all of this.
There really isn’t any “strait is open” propaganda coming from the US that I’ve seen. Everyone here knows it’s down and out.
Straight’s closed. You can’t sail there.
Moose out front should’ve told you.
Yeah idk whats so hard to understand about “closed”. Why does the crew not just refuse going there?
Do you think the Asian slaves on these ships are keeping up to global news on social media?
There are a variety of reasons to be confused, even the entire oil market is confused.
Here are some reasons for confusion:
- The Bendy of Hormuz is not closed, it’s just closed to ships Iran doesn’t like. Iran has somehow actually exported more oil since the war began.
- Iran has told GCC countries they can use the Bendy if they don’t allow US troops to stage attacks from their countries.
- The maritime data is being spoofed. Pretty sure it’s US allies doing the spoofing, they were making it look like there was a line of ships ready to cross, when in actuality they weren’t even there.
- The Trump admin straight up lied the other day and said they safley escorted a ship.
I like calling it the bendy of hormuz
Because Trump keeps pushing them to do dangerous and stupid things.
You can make a lot of money if you make it.
Money.
Strait wisdom to be sure.
Straight’s closed because of drones
Did they identify the source as drones? It says unknown projectiles, so Anonymous Intercepting Devices. AIDs, if you will.
Mines.
Most of their mine laying vessels are at the bottom of the straight at this point.
They can mine it remotely with rockets.
I’m not sure if you’re making a joke that the rockets are the explosives or if they actually have rockets they launch that are like cluster munitions that drop a bunch of mines in to the water.
As far as I know, they have the capability to deploy minefields by rocket from long range. I’m not sure if we’re talking the bigger MLRS or the smaller ballistic missiles, but it’s certainly possible.
I know that for land mines this is true.
However it’d be interesting to know if its also possible for naval mines… which are a few magnitudes bigger and also usually rely on an anker (ofter heavy) to stay in position.
Given the high weight I’m sceptical if a naval minefield can be achieved by missle transport.
I’m going to have to look into it further. If it’s a drifting mine, it could be a lot more compact and still do a lot of damage to ships. They would be less effective in theory, but all they really need is for the strait to be nominally mined.
Let the mother fucker burn, burn motherfucker, burn!
Unlike the roof, though, the Bendy of Hormuz DOES need water!
