Trump fixates on Strait of Hormuz as he eyes off-ramp for Iran war
How is this acceptable?
President Donald Trump’s Iran war campaign is increasingly hinging on a waterway of which most Americans have never heard.
The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and, at its narrowest, is 24 miles wide, is considered the world’s most important maritime chokepoint because about 20 to 21 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products pass through it every day, supplying approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil consumption.
But Iran’s attacks on ships using the strait that are not its own have stopped that supply of oil, even fertilizer, upending those and other markets around the world.
“There is no victory lap to be had that does not go through the Strait of Hormuz, which is the priority mission,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies Iran program senior director Behnam Ben Taleblu told the Washington Examiner. “Before we discuss what to do after is the fact that it is ‘closed’ today and that means that it will take a U.S. military mission to open it.”
Taleblu underscored how the importance of the Strait of Hormuz has only escalated since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s because of the Iranian regime’s asymmetric military and maritime strategies, including fast-attack water craft, drones, and mines.
A U.S. mission in the Strait of Hormuz would likely include military targeting of Iran’s coastal defense assets, ports, and jetties for “the speed boats and the smaller vessels that lay mines,” Taleblu added.
Apparently understanding the stakes, Trump has been criticizing allies for their lack of support with the Strait of Hormuz after spending last weekend trying to create a coalition to help him secure the waterway.
Trump on Wednesday took to social media to “wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it… be responsible for” the Strait of Hormuz.
“That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!” he wrote.
American Enterprise Institute foreign and defense policy senior fellow Danielle Pletka agreed with Trump’s more aggressive strategy regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
“Our allies’ failure to help us is an outrage,” Pletka told the Washington Examiner. “They bleat at us about Ukraine, which is on their doorstep, while Iran has killed more Americans – and Europeans – over the last half century than almost any other nation. And yet, these so-called allies can’t see past their derangement to protect either the free …
How is this acceptable?
President Donald Trump’s Iran war campaign is increasingly hinging on a waterway of which most Americans have never heard.
The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and, at its narrowest, is 24 miles wide, is considered the world’s most important maritime chokepoint because about 20 to 21 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products pass through it every day, supplying approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil consumption.
But Iran’s attacks on ships using the strait that are not its own have stopped that supply of oil, even fertilizer, upending those and other markets around the world.
“There is no victory lap to be had that does not go through the Strait of Hormuz, which is the priority mission,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies Iran program senior director Behnam Ben Taleblu told the Washington Examiner. “Before we discuss what to do after is the fact that it is ‘closed’ today and that means that it will take a U.S. military mission to open it.”
Taleblu underscored how the importance of the Strait of Hormuz has only escalated since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s because of the Iranian regime’s asymmetric military and maritime strategies, including fast-attack water craft, drones, and mines.
A U.S. mission in the Strait of Hormuz would likely include military targeting of Iran’s coastal defense assets, ports, and jetties for “the speed boats and the smaller vessels that lay mines,” Taleblu added.
Apparently understanding the stakes, Trump has been criticizing allies for their lack of support with the Strait of Hormuz after spending last weekend trying to create a coalition to help him secure the waterway.
Trump on Wednesday took to social media to “wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it… be responsible for” the Strait of Hormuz.
“That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!” he wrote.
American Enterprise Institute foreign and defense policy senior fellow Danielle Pletka agreed with Trump’s more aggressive strategy regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
“Our allies’ failure to help us is an outrage,” Pletka told the Washington Examiner. “They bleat at us about Ukraine, which is on their doorstep, while Iran has killed more Americans – and Europeans – over the last half century than almost any other nation. And yet, these so-called allies can’t see past their derangement to protect either the free …
Trump fixates on Strait of Hormuz as he eyes off-ramp for Iran war
How is this acceptable?
President Donald Trump’s Iran war campaign is increasingly hinging on a waterway of which most Americans have never heard.
The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and, at its narrowest, is 24 miles wide, is considered the world’s most important maritime chokepoint because about 20 to 21 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products pass through it every day, supplying approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil consumption.
But Iran’s attacks on ships using the strait that are not its own have stopped that supply of oil, even fertilizer, upending those and other markets around the world.
“There is no victory lap to be had that does not go through the Strait of Hormuz, which is the priority mission,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies Iran program senior director Behnam Ben Taleblu told the Washington Examiner. “Before we discuss what to do after is the fact that it is ‘closed’ today and that means that it will take a U.S. military mission to open it.”
Taleblu underscored how the importance of the Strait of Hormuz has only escalated since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s because of the Iranian regime’s asymmetric military and maritime strategies, including fast-attack water craft, drones, and mines.
A U.S. mission in the Strait of Hormuz would likely include military targeting of Iran’s coastal defense assets, ports, and jetties for “the speed boats and the smaller vessels that lay mines,” Taleblu added.
Apparently understanding the stakes, Trump has been criticizing allies for their lack of support with the Strait of Hormuz after spending last weekend trying to create a coalition to help him secure the waterway.
Trump on Wednesday took to social media to “wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it… be responsible for” the Strait of Hormuz.
“That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!” he wrote.
American Enterprise Institute foreign and defense policy senior fellow Danielle Pletka agreed with Trump’s more aggressive strategy regarding the Strait of Hormuz.
“Our allies’ failure to help us is an outrage,” Pletka told the Washington Examiner. “They bleat at us about Ukraine, which is on their doorstep, while Iran has killed more Americans – and Europeans – over the last half century than almost any other nation. And yet, these so-called allies can’t see past their derangement to protect either the free …
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