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I think the article accurately concluded that losing the straight is defeat.
Who really cares about the mines of the regime is defeated? Seems a bit silly.
I’m wondering if long term damage can be done to the straight that would outlive a defeated regime.
Trump is a war criminal.
Death to America.
''My reading of history and sense of what is now happening leads me to believe that if the U.S. were to lose in this way, there would be a significant risk that losing control of Hormuz would be for the United States what the Suez Canal Crisis was for Great Britain (in 1956) and analogous defeats were for the Dutch Empire in the 18th century and the Spanish empire in the 17th century. The pattern of events that leads to the breakdown of empires is almost always the same.''
Ray Dalio
This is why Trump is begging Xi to delay their long scheduled meeting at the end of this month- because Trump has fucked up big time and is a looking like a total loser.
Xi will demand Trump hands over Taiwan.
End of the petrodollar is imminent.
I guess I was thinking about something relatively permanent that would still be in place after Iran were defeated