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Except. They don't control the strait.
Haven't you found it curious that we haven't seen much if any footage of mines being destroyed? How many merchant ships have actually been hit at all?

For the record, the few mines that have been laid were not done to blow up ships. It hadn’t gotten that far. They were there as a message to insurance companies, without which shipping won’t proceed. The one other benefit is to narrow the shipping lanes and keep ships within easy targeting range of their drones, should they decide to do that, if things escalate.

A chart of shipping prior to the war shows two distinct and relatively wide paths of ships transiting up and/or down the Strait. The same chart of the past two weeks shows two things: much much much less shipping, and much narrower lanes where the ships are traversing.

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