Today’s Brent Crude Futures price!
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If the ME oil infrastructure burns it will take many years to build back.Get ready for $6 a gallon gas.
Or worse....
Why, Sybil? Gasoline futures are down.Get ready for $6 a gallon gas.
Or worse....
It isn't burning, Hawk. Even if it did, it can be rebuilt in about a year.
America is not an empire, Hawk.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Jake Starkey
Verified User
Down a few points.
If the air campaigns continue, they will go up.
3 out of 4 Americans do not support this war.
If the air campaigns continue, they will go up.
3 out of 4 Americans do not support this war.
countryboy
Verified User
In California.Get ready for $6 a gallon gas.
Or worse....
Well, it's not supposed to be anyway...
Jake Starkey
Verified User
for a bit
What did people think was going to happen if we undertook a war in the Middle East, especially against one of the leading oil exporters in the world?
Amazing to think that Trump seemingly didn’t anticipate such
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Seriously.
All they need to do is disable one oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and world petroleum prices will skyrocket.
If they disable it badly enough that it would take months to move or remove it, we could be seeing the highest gas prices in history and the destruction of the American economy.
Just as Putin ordered.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Why would that happen? Over a dozen tankers and a multitude of other ships have been damaged or sunk by the Houthi in the Red Sea. That didn't cause prices of anything to "skyrocket."
Houthi attacks on commercial vessels - Wikipedia
See the above list. What you are speculating on is fantasy on your part. Iran isn't going to do any better than the Houthi because Iran is using the exact same weapons systems they give the Houthi.
Back to the Russia collusion thing now, hum? Maybe tomorrow you can tell us how the Iran wan is linked to Jan 6 and the Epstein files.
Jake Starkey
Verified User
Watch Iran close the Strait.
These are the MAGA, and we are in wars the neo-cons slavered for.
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These are the MAGA, and we are in wars the neo-cons slavered for.
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Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
What has The Red Sea got to do with it?
Iran's coast is the Persian Gulf and the narrow Strait of Hormuz where they could easily make the prospect of passing through too dangerous for tankers and cargo ships to risk passing through.
But the narrow Strait is different geographically, creating a dangerous bottleneck that would make it much easier for Iran to attack and cripple or destroy large, slow moving vessels.
Blabber your nonsense all you want to if that's all you've got.
Funny how all the current calamity trump is causing is hurting the US economy which will be to the benefit of Russia.
Gee, what a coincidence.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
No, it's not you retard. Try reading Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History for starters. The Red Sea and Gulf of Hormuz are for all intents identical in terms of applied sea power. They are both narrow straits and shipping choke points.
Iran and the Houthi are using essentially identical weapons systems with identical training and tactics. That means the methods Iran has for closing the Strait of Hormuz are identical to that the Houthi have used to try and close the Red Sea.
The Houti have failed to do so even as they've hit a number of merchant ships.
Iran's "Boghammer" small craft are pretty much useless against warships or even patrolling aircraft. Against unarmed, unescorted merchant ships they might work, but if the US et al., are in the strait with warships and aircraft, the Iranians are getting smashed again. Tiny 'torpedo boats' of some sort and stuff of a similar bent have never had much luck in naval warfare.
I can go back to Jefferson's use of small gunboats with poorly trained crews, much the same thing in 1810, to guard the US coast with similar uselessness. PT / MBT boats in WW 1 and 2 proved marginal, at best, in actual naval combat. In 1944, the USN at the battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines attacked IJN forces including 2 battleships, a cruiser, and four destroyers with over 100 PT boats that launched close to 400 torpedoes. Those boats scored ZERO torpedo hits. NONE, NADA, ZIP POINT SHIT.
Germany, late in WW 2, and Japan throughout WW 2, used small midget submarines to try and influence the naval war. Outside a few successes against anchored ships in harbor, these had no impact on the war for near 100% losses. They don't fucking work!
I can dredge up plenty of other examples of the uselessness of little cockleshells in naval warfare, but I've made my point. Iran hasn't got shit to fight a naval war with. If the US et al., get serious about keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, it'll stay open.