Trump calls on foreign countries to protect their own oil tankers
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You are a tough guy, aren't you. Ready for another neocon middle east war? Some Americans are war-weary and sick of wasting blood and treasure in far off lands. Rightys We are spending the wealth and lives of Americans so you can act tough.How many trillions of dollars are gone on WHAT? How many lives destroyed,for WHAT? What was our payoff in destroying the middle east? Oh yeah, they were threatening to land on the Potomac.
moon
Satire for Sanity
True enough for me personally. However there are certain events that we've been told
to look for when the time of His coming is near. Yet, still no man knows the exact day or hour.
The entire 24th chapter of Matthew is where Jesus told us how it will be. His followers asked Him,
"“Tell us, when will this happen? What can we look for to show us of Your coming and of the end of the world?”"
32 “Now learn something from the fig tree. When the branch begins to grow and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 In the same way, when you see all these things happen, you know the Son of Man is near, even at the door. 34 For sure, I tell you, the people of this day will not pass away before all these things have happened."
Mat. 24: 32-34
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moon
Satire for Sanity
I don't believe that there will be a war with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.
But if there is, it will be their war. If they cease and desist from their acts of terrorism, as the bombing of oil tankers and shooting down of American assets over International Waters, there will be no need for a military response to their acts of terror and aggression.
Their economy is crumbling and the Mullahs will have to decide between a revolution or ceasing their acts of terrorism and their support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since we will become energy independent next year, why are we guarding the shipment of oil in the Gulf? Let them eat their oil. Or pay the US to guard it.
But if there is, it will be their war. If they cease and desist from their acts of terrorism, as the bombing of oil tankers and shooting down of American assets over International Waters, there will be no need for a military response to their acts of terror and aggression.
Their economy is crumbling and the Mullahs will have to decide between a revolution or ceasing their acts of terrorism and their support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since we will become energy independent next year, why are we guarding the shipment of oil in the Gulf? Let them eat their oil. Or pay the US to guard it.
That should be the focus, not pretending you have some inside secret knowledge to sell books etc....
Sad seeing this full grow'd man sucking up to other posters, praising them so adoringly.....
TO bad it doesn't seem to be working as I haven't noticed anyone coming to his rescue, but who knows, one day all the sucking up to legion & others may pay off.
moon
Satire for Sanity
Sad seeing this full grow'd man sucking up to other posters, praising them so adoringly.....
TO bad it doesn't seem to be working as I haven't noticed anyone coming to his rescue, but who knows, one day all the sucking up to legion & others may pay off.
Yeah. I've dubbed it ' obsequious servility '. Makes your skin creep, don't it.
I don't believe that there will be a war with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.
But if there is, it will be their war. If they cease and desist from their acts of terrorism, as the bombing of oil tankers and shooting down of American assets over International Waters, there will be no need for a military response to their acts of terror and aggression.
Their economy is crumbling and the Mullahs will have to decide between a revolution or ceasing their acts of terrorism and their support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since we will become energy independent next year, why are we guarding the shipment of oil in the Gulf? Let them eat their oil. Or pay the US to guard it.
But if there is, it will be their war. If they cease and desist from their acts of terrorism, as the bombing of oil tankers and shooting down of American assets over International Waters, there will be no need for a military response to their acts of terror and aggression.
Their economy is crumbling and the Mullahs will have to decide between a revolution or ceasing their acts of terrorism and their support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since we will become energy independent next year, why are we guarding the shipment of oil in the Gulf? Let them eat their oil. Or pay the US to guard it.
Why would I need rescuing, Billy? You and your loons are novices.Sad seeing this full grow'd man sucking up to other posters, praising them so adoringly.....
TO bad it doesn't seem to be working as I haven't noticed anyone coming to his rescue, but who knows, one day all the sucking up to legion & others may pay off.
Why do you keep repeating the same things over & over?? Seems like you just cut & paste~SPAM!!!!
Be original for once, stop repeating yourself, do a little reading, expand your horizons, take a walk in the fresh air...... Best of luck.......
Oil tanker attacks echo Persian Gulf's 1980s 'Tanker War'
https://www.foxnews.com/world/oil-tanker-attacks-echo-persian-gulfs-1980s-tanker-war
The Iran’s mining campaign began in earnest in 1987. At night, the Revolutionary Guard would drop mines from vessels disguised as traditional dhows, which ferry cargo around the waters of the Persian Gulf.
As attacks targeted Kuwaiti oil tankers, the U.S. ultimately stepped in to protect them. The Soviet Union also volunteered.
While mines represented a small number of the attacks, their psychological impact grew. They also allowed Iran to attack its foes without having to take direct responsibility.
The mines were described as “God’s angels that descend and do what is necessary,” by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who would later become president of Iran.
Analysts say use of naval mines and bombs is a trend that continues today.
“Iran’s strategy at sea particularly is based on disruption,” said Dave DesRoches, a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington. “They know they can’t dominate. They have to disrupt.”
Ultimately, the U.S. tied Iran to the mining when it captured the Ajr, an Iranian ship loaded with mines in 1987. When the USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and nearly sank the next year, the Navy matched it to those seized from the Ajr.
The attack on the Roberts sparked a daylong naval battle between Iran and the U.S., known as Operation Praying Mantis. American forces attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or damaged six Iranian vessels.
Several months later, tragedy struck. The USS Vincennes, after chasing Guard vessels into Iranian territorial waters, mistook an Iran Air commercial jetliner for an Iranian F-14, shooting it down and killing all 290 people onboard.
Thirty years later, events of the “Tanker War” still resonate in Iran.
A recent billboard put up in Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Square shows U.S. and Israeli ships afire and sinking, with captions in English, Farsi, Arabic and Hebrew reading: “We Drowned Them All.”
While the billboard is meant to show support for the Palestinians — it prominently features Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque — it came just days after the Fujairah attack.
Around this time as well, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave an address to university students, who gave him a portrait of Nader Mahdavi, a Revolutionary Guard soldier killed in a U.S. attack amid the “Tanker War.”
“The supreme leader asked whose picture it was and I replied, ‘Mahdavi,’” the semi-official ANA news agency quoted the student who gave the portrait to Khamenei as saying. “The supreme leader smiled and said, ‘Excellent, very timely.’”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/oil-tanker-attacks-echo-persian-gulfs-1980s-tanker-war
The Iran’s mining campaign began in earnest in 1987. At night, the Revolutionary Guard would drop mines from vessels disguised as traditional dhows, which ferry cargo around the waters of the Persian Gulf.
As attacks targeted Kuwaiti oil tankers, the U.S. ultimately stepped in to protect them. The Soviet Union also volunteered.
While mines represented a small number of the attacks, their psychological impact grew. They also allowed Iran to attack its foes without having to take direct responsibility.
The mines were described as “God’s angels that descend and do what is necessary,” by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who would later become president of Iran.
Analysts say use of naval mines and bombs is a trend that continues today.
“Iran’s strategy at sea particularly is based on disruption,” said Dave DesRoches, a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington. “They know they can’t dominate. They have to disrupt.”
Ultimately, the U.S. tied Iran to the mining when it captured the Ajr, an Iranian ship loaded with mines in 1987. When the USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and nearly sank the next year, the Navy matched it to those seized from the Ajr.
The attack on the Roberts sparked a daylong naval battle between Iran and the U.S., known as Operation Praying Mantis. American forces attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or damaged six Iranian vessels.
Several months later, tragedy struck. The USS Vincennes, after chasing Guard vessels into Iranian territorial waters, mistook an Iran Air commercial jetliner for an Iranian F-14, shooting it down and killing all 290 people onboard.
Thirty years later, events of the “Tanker War” still resonate in Iran.
A recent billboard put up in Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Square shows U.S. and Israeli ships afire and sinking, with captions in English, Farsi, Arabic and Hebrew reading: “We Drowned Them All.”
While the billboard is meant to show support for the Palestinians — it prominently features Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque — it came just days after the Fujairah attack.
Around this time as well, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave an address to university students, who gave him a portrait of Nader Mahdavi, a Revolutionary Guard soldier killed in a U.S. attack amid the “Tanker War.”
“The supreme leader asked whose picture it was and I replied, ‘Mahdavi,’” the semi-official ANA news agency quoted the student who gave the portrait to Khamenei as saying. “The supreme leader smiled and said, ‘Excellent, very timely.’”
moon
Satire for Sanity
Nonsense. There is no comparison.
same strategy by Iran