Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Yep. Two can play the mining game. Encircle Kharg and the other islands within Iran’s territorial waters with mines and just leave them there until someone rational gains control in Iran. If Iran sorties their little speedboats swat them with A-10s, attack helicopters, and drones.
Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
Won’t this exacerbate the reason we want the strait open to begin with?
There is no plan. The rest of the world needs ships to flow through the strait. Who can last longer? Us or the regime? All they have to do is survive. It’s easy to dismiss elevated gas prices and the associated cost increase of everything else when you’re an upper middle class major airline pilot. What about everyone else?