Skeeter wrote:
In article <10pf1e4$44v5$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
On 2026-03-17 04:09, NoBody wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:31:06 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump admin as soon as this week plans to announce that
| multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition that
| will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials
| said.
|
| They are still discussing whether those operations would
| begin before or after hostilities end.
| ...
| With the passage of oil tankers and cargo ships all but
| halted in and around the strategically vital waterway, the
| price of food, transported using oil and diesel, is also
| expected to climb if the closure persists, according to Bob
| McNally, a former White House energy adviser. Problems
| could continue even if President Trump were to declare an
| end to the war tomorrow.
|
| "It's not like there's a big gate that swings open in front
| of the Hormuz and Iran locks the gate," McNally, founder
| and president of Rapidan Energy Group, said. "All Iran has
| to do is demonstrate every day, every other day, that it
| has the means and the ability to attack ships in the
| strait, and that will be enough."
| ...
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-strait-of-hormuz-closure-impact-60 >> >> -minutes/>
--bks
Says people who have no direct knowledge of the situation.
People with direct knowledge of the situation were trying to tell Trump
that this would happen.
Were you there?
I was and they were killing all kinds you people.
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