US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Strait of Hormuz is open. At least for ships who are willing to take the risk:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/article...21047.html
 
+ D. Trump is sanctioning countries who would be willing to continue buying oil from Iran.
 
Although I don’t really trust the current US administration on this issue this regime is causing problems beyond the Women-Life-Freedom movement. Turkey + Saudi Arabia + Pakistani have recently signed a pact of mutual protection (Egypt and other countries could join). So no one knows what an IRI that collects revenue from the strait of Hormuz + sells Oil to South-East Asia + get reparations from the US + is not facing any economic sanctions anymore can do to the region. Even this alliance would quickly fall apart and the Revolutionary guards would become the new bosses of the whole region.
 
+ (sorry BrianSoddingBoru). Israel has started hitting bases in Syria. There are Turkish troops that are trying to assist the new Syrian government to reassert itself in Syria. And the mad man Netanyahu is hitting targets in Syria.
 
/ So we all need to be very careful here. This is a very sensitive region and if we don’t try to handle the whole thing with a lot of care, who knows what else can happen here?

I’m not overly concerned about Trump sanctioning countries who deal with Iran. Iran’s biggest trading partners are China, Iraq, Turkey, the UAE, India, Pakistan, and Russia. With the exception of the UAE, any one of these (looking at YOU, China) are highly likely to tell Trump to go kick rocks. If one does, the rest will follow and Iran’s smaller trading partners will realize that Trump’s bluster means next to nothing.

A point that people seem to be missing is that, by threatening sanctions, Trump is making the tacit admission that the war is lost (at least the military aspect of it).

Boru