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I suspect it's more accurate to say that it's only in a war for survival that can you afford to move at that pace.

That assumes that there is no air support involved, and that they won't just close the Straits themselves... It's economic and political suicide for them to roll over and pay their rival.

Stay, take losses, escort ships though... You can't fight a war with zero losses. This is why the West loses every war it chooses to engage in for sport, or to appeal to some fickle domestic sentiment. We have zero appetite for losses, because it looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians...

The leadership is insulated enough for now, but give it a few months of being forced to pay Tehran for the privelage of passing through the straits, and I suspect there will be a change of heart. UAE, KSA, Kuwait, etc., tolerate America to keep Iran in check. Seeing America humbled plays into...

100%. As I have said multiple times, there is no way this ends with Iran holding total control of the straits. Iran is the mortal enemy of the other Gulf States based on religious and ethnic quarrels dating back centuries. Once the Gulf States have had enough they will take-up the fight...

There is a major difference between Canada and those places, we aren't close to nations that might bomb/invade us... Our building codes are based on the actual expected threats. Perhaps they face a different threat environment. One where small vessels might surprise them because they share a...

That would depend on the threat environment. In Canadian waters, likely little defence, and they be unlikely to be used outside of Canadian waters in a shooting war. Trying to defend everything leaves you defending nothing. You need to use your Int to tailor the defence to the threat, and...

In a war they are valid targets, that doesn't mean that we need to arm them and treat them like warships.

The Gulf States are not going to accept Iranian control of the Straits. Its not a realistic outcome. If America walks away with things in that state, the war will continue with new main players.

I found a quick YouTube short that nicely demonstrates the distance to the moon in a relatable scale. Earth to Moon

No, they are clearly not mindless, but just like every other extremist group, they need to keep their base on-side. They also don't have big daddy Iran feeding them int continuously, since Iran is getting pretty messed-up at the same time. A few miscalculations/mistakes could see Europe and Asia...

They weren't selective enough the last time, so why imagine they will be this time? Iran selected the craziest proxies, so it's likely their proxies will continue to be crazy. As Much as America isn't playing 16D chess, neither is Iran... They are holding on for dear life, because their lives...

The problem for the Houthi and Iran is that once they do the thing they threaten, they have no more cards to play, and they may provoke action from the countries happy to watch America twist for now. When the Houthi last shut down the BAM, Europe came out to play. If they do it again, Europe...

This sort of lazy dismissal of average people is exactly why anti-intellectualism is on the rise. Do you call out people when they say mist when it's drizzle? When they say fog when it's mist? What about hail when it's ice pellets? Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of meteorology, a...

There is definitly a military solution, the real question is whether or not the West cares enough to follow through on it. You don't need to own the Iranian coast, you just need to keep killing them until the people shooting at tankers decide living is worth more than "death to America"... It...