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SamuelTheThird

(964 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2026, 05:20 AM 3 hrs ago

Senator Murphy says they can't safely open up the Strait, there is no plan

While some people here are sanguine about the Strait of Hormuz and rah-rah'ing the military, someone actually briefed says this

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Senator Murphy says they can't safely open up the Strait, there is no plan (Original Post) SamuelTheThird 3 hrs ago OP

Can the mines be located if their placements weren't documented? no_hypocrisy 3 hrs ago #1

NYT -Live Updates: At Least 3 Ships Come Under Attack Near Key Oil Passage womanofthehills 32 min ago #7

this is what happens when Trump listens to only his bootlickers and other dictators Skittles 2 hrs ago #2

What happens when you let a toddler make foreign policy. Crunchy Frog 2 hrs ago #3

Someone here is rah-rahing this insanity? AllyCat 1 hr ago #4

You expect plans from a reality TV star, some Fox News hosts malaise 1 hr ago #5

No one could have seen this coming IronLionZion 53 min ago #6

Policy divorced from logistics and sound judgment bucolic_frolic 27 min ago #8

It may have been 100% foreseeable... GiqueCee 26 min ago #9

no_hypocrisy

(54,773 posts)

1. Can the mines be located if their placements weren't documented?

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 05:33 AM

3 hrs ago

I mean, aside from running into them.

womanofthehills

(10,933 posts)

7. NYT -Live Updates: At Least 3 Ships Come Under Attack Near Key Oil Passage

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 08:08 AM

32 min ago

The Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil, is all but closed as war in the Middle East expands. A British agency said three ships were hit by unidentified projectiles in or near the strait.

Three ships in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz were struck in separate incidents on Wednesday, according to a British monitoring agency, as the Middle East war chokes off one of the key conduits for the global oil trade.

Hours before the strikes, the U.S. military said that it had attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil transits.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/11/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil-israel/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

Skittles

(171,146 posts)

2. this is what happens when Trump listens to only his bootlickers and other dictators

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 05:46 AM

2 hrs ago

Crunchy Frog

(28,241 posts)

3. What happens when you let a toddler make foreign policy.

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 06:05 AM

2 hrs ago

AllyCat

(18,762 posts)

4. Someone here is rah-rahing this insanity?

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 06:47 AM

1 hr ago

What a disaster this is.

malaise

(295,305 posts)

5. You expect plans from a reality TV star, some Fox News hosts

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 06:50 AM

1 hr ago

internet trolls and real estate slum lords?
These effers think this is a video game or a likes thread.

IronLionZion

(51,118 posts)

6. No one could have seen this coming

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 07:47 AM

53 min ago

The best and brightest of MAGA are on it.

bucolic_frolic

(54,816 posts)

8. Policy divorced from logistics and sound judgment

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 08:13 AM

27 min ago

totally expected.

GiqueCee

(3,932 posts)

9. It may have been 100% foreseeable...

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 08:14 AM

26 min ago

... to anyone with the intellectual capacity of a potted plant, but that excludes anyone in Trump's merry band of mental defectives. Two-gun Pete Kegsbreath couldn't find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight, never mind finding the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
We're all doomed.

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