Subject: Re: Swatggering, tin plated...

In fact, he decommissioned the only four minesweepers that were stationed in the Persian Gulf- last year.

Between them, our “allies” have 150 minesweepers. Trump said today that he didn’t need any help, not that he would have received it.

The British Navy pulled it's last minesweeper out of the Gulf only a few months ago too.

Royal Navy's last Gulf minesweeper brought home days before Iran 'mined Hormuz shipping lane'

Battered and unseaworthy, HMS Middleton was dragged by tugs into Portsmouth naval base on Sunday.

The Hunt class mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV) returned to the home of the Royal Navy on March 8 after being brought back from the Gulf by a heavy-lift ship.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news...

It's almost as if Trump the Conqueror waited until all the minesweepers were removed from the Gulf, before giving Iran a motive to mine the Gulf.

Steve