Nord.pubIran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane
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Well if this doesn’t cause oil to skyrocket then nothing will.
Glad I still have my EV, now if I can just find a pallet of solar panels.
But the potus said the war was over
Does anybody really believe that? Or that only he can determine if Iran has unconditionally surrendered?
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: ‘This operation will result in lower gas prices in the long term.’
This is only if they manage to occupy Iran. After murdering their children, and treasonously backing out of TWO working nuclear deals, there’s not a snowball’s chance on the sun that Iranians will ever trust the US or the West again. Even then, we would just literally be stealing their natural resources.
What happened to this being about blocking their nuclear program? Now that the price of oil has doubled, they just pivot to “prices will fall once we take their oil”? These people can’t even lie convincingly. They can’t plan or orchestrate a war against a lesser force with the most powerful military ever conceived. As of now, the US Navy cannot secure the Straight of Hormuz. How long will it take to end the conflict and de-mine the entire strait?
Democrats need to HAMMER this home: Trump’s war costs EXACTLY this much at the pump, every day. There needs to be a ticker on every news broadcast showing live gas prices around the nation.
Democrats need to HAMMER this home: Trump’s war costs EXACTLY this much at the pump, every day. There needs to be a ticker on every news broadcast showing live gas prices around the nation.
Except then they’d have to actually oppose the war, and they won’t do that because their donors support imperialism.
Democrats will be mostly for the war, even as they hem and haw about this or that. They are mostly all aipac’s creatures, if not epstein “pals.”
Sensationalist headline.
The US claims that Iran is considering laying mines…
Non-paywalled:
And even then, can’t the US military detect them and blow them up? Or have cheap drones patrolling ahead of ships to trigger them?
I’m not sure the insurance companies will pay out when someone loses a quarter billion dollar freighter plus cargo and associated personnel in a warzone when they come back with “but we put a cheap drone out front just to check for mines” lol
I dunno if a “cheap drone” can produce the same magnetic response that a fucking cargo ship can, but it seems extremely unlikely.
And what, you have 2 in the water ahead of you? Is that enough for it to be clear for a cargo ship? They function perfectly all the time and catch every single mine?
What happens when 1 finds a mine? How many extras do you carry? What happens when you run out, “just turn around”?
Drones could probably clear a shipping channel, but at some point and actual ship is going to have to go through it.
And the suez canal was blocked for ages due to 1 ship, even after having been operated for decades. That, except the ship sinks.
Plus I think many of the mines do not float, they lurk below the water line, making them harder to spot.
I don’t know much of anything about sea mines, but I’d wager that they are very inexpensive compared to the countermeasures / clean-up efforts.
Can marine drones not take out sea mines?
Sonar-equipped and fiber-controlled submersible drones / robots can. Ordinary sea drones are just small boats with cameras for finding a target, typically made of aluminum or fiberglass. They typically don’t have sonar, ride on the surface, and their magnetic signature needs massive amplification to trigger a mine.
Signature amplification might be doable, though.
Depends on the type of mine and the method of detection. It’s really hard to find stuff in the ocean, and the strait is a big place. You’d have to do a lot of sweeping by radar and hope you’re able to find them before they find you. And Iran is likely to just destroy such a drone when they see it.
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Gotta keep up the oil prices so the us can export there expensive fracking oil because our whole society is built on liquid dinosaurs
I’ll be that guy - fun facts time!
Coal comes from the carboniferous period and is really just anoxic transformation of layers and layers of old peat bog covered by sedimentation and transformed by heat, pressure and geologic time ~ 300 Ma.
Oil and gas come from the mesozoic era which was the time of the dinosaura clade, but the carbon in the oil comes from marine deposits of phyto and zooplanktons. - 252-65 Ma.
No actual dinos in fossil fuel. Weird I know. I also know you likely didn’t care to hear any of this, and it was just a figure of speech, but like I said, I’m that guy.
i ve been lyied to my whole life
You could say they are still the dominate species on the planet. They ghosted us for a bit during the Dark Ages, then came back with a vengeance
Suddenly an upside to the fact that I was too poor to learn to drive in my 20s. Now in my 30s and still can’t drive so oil prices really don’t matter to me.
Already got rainwater harvesting, could do with solar/battery though as my only alternative for heating is a small wood fire and hot water bottles.
It matters to you. This will increase all prices in society, due to global trade and just in time supply networks
It won’t increase my mortgage, everything else is pretty cheap in comparison.
Well, as your spending power decreases because of everything getting more expensive, your mortgage is there relatively more expensive than it used to be.
Even fixed costs are more expensive because your money is worth less and you need more of it.
Fixed costs don’t change, £100 remains £100. As long as Farage doesn’t win with his retard party, minimum wage is very unlikely to drop. It may fall relative to inflation, but that £100 debt repayment will remain £100 as it is fixed there.
Inflation makes debts get smaller too. If we get hyperinflation for a few years I could pay off my 2023 house purchase for the cost of a 2028 chocolate bar.
If you keep your job and don’t lose the house before your income increases to match hyperinflation, yes.
Most people will find themselves unemployed or making monthly enough to buy a chocolate bar for a while.
Has your income been keeping up with inflation the past few years? You think it will keep up with hyperinflation?
Your mortgage is $1,000 a month and you earn $3,000 a month. When hyperinflation occurs, you owe $1,000 a month, food costs $4,000 a month, and you still earn $3,000 a month. Are you certain you won’t be in that position?
At this point, that’s equivalent to “Russian sources said”
Maybe but this is the last thing that US officials want publicized.
It’s one thing to claim that you’ll provide missile defense to tankers traversing the strait, it’s another to ask them to sail through a minefield.
And that’s why the U.S. just bombed a whole bunch of Iranian boats in the area.
Exactly why we should down vote rhis post, imho
i mean, first off: are they? but if they do: oh no, who could have seen this INEVITABLE RESPONSE to the USA attacking Iran?!?!?!11
So much for it being nearly over then
Iran has the upper hand right now, they’ve destroyed (confirmed) half to (reported) all US early warning radars in the middle east, they’re hammering Israel right now, their government is intact and has a potentially less moderate leader wanting to avenge his father’s death, they have enough missiles and cheap drones to bankrupt the US in a war of attrition but Iran is also landing a lot of missiles now including 1,000kg payloads and cluster missiles. Interceptions are fewer by the day, and the payloads are larger by the day.
Iran’s strategy is working, and it only works if they don’t give the US and Israel a chance to restock. So they’ve said it’s not up to the US to decide when this war is over, that they have no interest in negotiating with the US as they don’t trust them anymore, and they will do what they think they need to to ensure the US doesn’t do this again.
It’s gonna be a long one, a mission accomplished banner won’t do here, Trump and Bibi will have to admit defeat and beg them to stop.
Iran is huge, Israel is tiny. Can Israel afford to have Tel Aviv destroyed as they financially ruin themselves and destroy the world economy? They’re insane enough to think they can.
This was the biggest gamble for the dying US empire, and it backfired miserably. Though every analyst that didn’t just barf red white and blue progranda said exactly this will happen, so they deserve it.
The USSR took a decade to collapse with Afghanistan, lets see the USA speed run it with Iran.
Anyone invested in defence stocks reading this
I put a small amount (like actual small amount) into blackrock just to get a window into that world, stocks been cratering lately.
Drone defence is still treating us well for those who got in at stage 1
Damnit, I came to post exactly this. Good work sir.
Where is this from? It looks familiar.
Hot Fuzz
Good for them!