Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  US officials claim

  At this point, that’s equivalent to “Russian sources said”

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  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe but this is the last thing that US officials want publicized.

    It’s one thing to claim that you’ll provide missile defense to tankers traversing the strait, it’s another to ask them to sail through a minefield.

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    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that’s why the U.S. just bombed a whole bunch of Iranian boats in the area.

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  • choui4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly why we should down vote rhis post, imho

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• bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta keep up the oil prices so the us can export there expensive fracking oil because our whole society is built on liquid dinosaurs

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll be that guy - fun facts time!

    Coal comes from the carboniferous period and is really just anoxic transformation of layers and layers of old peat bog covered by sedimentation and transformed by heat, pressure and geologic time ~ 300 Ma.

    Oil and gas come from the mesozoic era which was the time of the dinosaura clade, but the carbon in the oil comes from marine deposits of phyto and zooplanktons. - 252-65 Ma.

    No actual dinos in fossil fuel. Weird I know. I also know you likely didn’t care to hear any of this, but like I said, I’m that guy.

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    • kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i ve been lyied to my whole life

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  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could say they are still the dominate species on the planet. They ghosted us for a bit during the Dark Ages, then came back with a vengeance

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Suddenly an upside to the fact that I was too poor to learn to drive in my 20s. Now in my 30s and still can’t drive so oil prices really don’t matter to me.

    Already got rainwater harvesting, could do with solar/battery though as my only alternative for heating is a small wood fire and hot water bottles.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It matters to you. This will increase all prices in society, due to global trade and just in time supply networks

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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i mean, first off: are they? but if they do: oh no, who could have seen this INEVITABLE RESPONSE to the USA attacking Iran?!?!?!11

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So much for it being nearly over then

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  • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Iran has the upper hand right now, they’ve destroyed (confirmed) half to (reported) all US early warning radars in the middle east, they’re hammering Israel right now, their government is intact and has a potentially less moderate leader wanting to avenge his father’s death, they have enough missiles and cheap drones to bankrupt the US in a war of attrition but Iran is also landing a lot of missiles now including 1,000kg payloads and cluster missiles. Interceptions are fewer by the day, and the payloads are larger by the day.

    Iran’s strategy is working, and it only works if they don’t give the US and Israel a chance to restock. So they’ve said it’s not up to the US to decide when this war is over, that they have no interest in negotiating with the US as they don’t trust them anymore, and they will do what they think they need to to ensure the US doesn’t do this again.

    It’s gonna be a long one, a mission accomplished banner won’t do here, Trump and Bibi will have to admit defeat and beg them to stop.

    Iran is huge, Israel is tiny. Can Israel afford to have Tel Aviv destroyed as they financially ruin themselves and destroy the world economy? They’re insane enough to think they can.

    This was the biggest gamble for the dying US empire, and it backfired miserably. Though every analyst that didn’t just barf red white and blue progranda said exactly this will happen, so they deserve it.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The USSR took a decade to collapse with Afghanistan, lets see the USA speed run it with Iran.

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• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone invested in defence stocks reading this

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I put a small amount (like actual small amount) into blackrock just to get a window into that world, stocks been cratering lately.

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    • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Drone defence is still treating us well for those who got in at stage 1

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damnit, I came to post exactly this. Good work sir.

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    • Nickelalloy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Where is this from? It looks familiar.

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• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good for them!

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