@recon_retired@CENTCOM Do you think the US should just stop the Iranian blockade and let the IRGC be the only deciding factor for who can use the Straight? If the rest of the world can’t have free flow of navigation, than why should Iran get that right? Javid Shah
@unusual_whales The USS Alaska, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile sub, just passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on May 10th, heading into the Mediterranean. It’s a rare public move amid the tensions with Iran.
@JeanieRose1960@Darrinps@IRanMediaco Try @CENTCOM for official military news. You’ll only hear the side of the US there, so it will be one sided but the numbers you get will be official.
There are more things important than gas prices, like human rights! If you consider yourself any type of activist, you would be up in arms for the way the IRGC slaughtered over 40,000 of its citizens for the crime of peacefully protesting. If you lived in Iran and you spoke out the same way you are now, you would be another number added to that 40 some thousand!
@JeanieRose1960@Darrinps@IRanMediaco You can’t just use one source to find the truth in the news. You need to go to multiple sources on opposite sides of the political spectrum and find out where they’re saying the same thing. Otherwise you’ll get caught up in the propaganda of an echo chamber.
That is an incorrect assessment. Even if a few boats get through, which our satellites can detect, Iran is still at the point where it’s resorting to dumping oil in the Persian Gulf because they have nowhere to store it and you can’t just turn off an oil well like a light switch without causing permanent damage. You need to brush up on your geopolitics.
Sometimes finishing something is finishing it for now. The whole Geo politics game is real. Ukraine is sending minesweepers to the country to help clear the Straight of Hormuz because Russian oil is now selling at a premium and helping fund the Russia Ukraine war. There are a lot of actors that played that you’re probably unaware of. This is truly a global issue. And I don’t think the United States is done yet, the blockade is causing serious damage to the Iranian oil fields, where Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pipelines that can bypass the straight completely. It’s not an easy solution and getting rid of a theocracy it’s very difficult. It’s not something that the United States or Israel can do alone they need the help of the Iranian citizens to rise up against their own government and take it back.
I fucking hope so, otherwise I feel like they should go live in Iran and see what it’s all about! Come back and give us their
Assessment on what they’ve learned … oh wait, there’s no way they could come back; not because they loved it so much but, because they’d try some American values, bullshit and get beaten, tortured, raped, and either shot or hung on site. Male or Female Iran doesn’t discriminate!
You’re missing the whole point. Do you believe in human rights? Do you believe a woman should be able to be killed in the middle of the street because her hair is showing? Do you believe a wrestling champion should be executed because he protested because he wants more freedom? The Islamic machine is no different than the third Reich! You don’t have to like Trump, but everything he does isn’t wrong just because he’s Trump. This is something that affects global security.
@pronobiscum@IRanMediaco Ask the real Iranians, the 95% without guns how free they are and what they want! P stop being a puppet for the IRGC!!! What the US is trying to accomplish is far deeper than the nuclear issue and the matter of human rights.
Russia has its own problems to deal with that are more important right now. I’m an International student, with friends on three different continents including several countries including Russia. My Russian colleagues are as smart as they come, and defending their homeland is more important than wasting money in Central and South America. As far as China is concerned, If they tried to implement their Navy to defend Iran, it would be destroyed before it got anywhere near the US Naval blockade. China has to think of its doctrine regarding Taiwan; and the elements of that has changed dramatically. China will now have to depend on its oil resources from Russia, the UAE, and potentially Saudi Arabia. China does pose a threat with its hypersonic missiles, and nuclear capability along with Russia. But that leads us to the “MAD” situation, the main deterrent to all nuclear wars. Mutually Assured Destruction! Everybody dies, and nobody wins. I don’t think Russia or China will take that chance on a failing empire. But these are just my thoughts, what do I know?