Trump steps up pressure on European allies to help protect strait of Hormuz
The de facto closure of the vital waterway by Tehran in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices. The US president’s call for allies to enter the war by sending ships to the strait to protect commercial shipping vessels and unblock global oil supplies has met a muted response. Australia, France, Japan and the UK are among the countries to have said they have no plans to send ships
Yea, right. The FSoA Navy won't go in there because it's too risky, & Trumpolini expects the Eurotrash to do it? For a war he started and didn't so much as give them a heads-up on? The same folks he has been dropping punitive tariffs on?
I'm getting a little tired of these military adventures being called "wars". Wars are where people fight each other. These things are just Bombing Campaigns. Trumpolini wants to win a war with no casualties, where only the other guys get killed. Problem is, simply destroying property and killing mostly civilians doesn't win anything. You have to actually take over the machinery of state and run the place, and that takes people. No matter how long they bomb they can't win. They'll flatten Tehran, but that just makes it harder for anyone to govern the country. For the place to become a going concern again, the destroyed infrastructure will need to be rebuilt, and that will be even more expensive and time consuming than the bombing campaign. It's ridiculous.
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