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What are you talking about? No one has questioned that we haven't tried to open up the strait. I think we're all well aware of that.
Are we. I keep reading about the mighty Iranian fleet of Zodiacs cowing the US Navy into merely conducting Freedom of Navigation before turning tail and running away.
The reason we haven't done it is, as we have discussed before, it would expose the U.S. to far greater likelihood of taking losses and possible service member casualties. That's why we kept asking other countries to do it, rather than to do it ourselves.
Because in your mind the French Navy, the Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet or whatever they call it now has so much capability above and beyond what we have that they'd be able to handle this?
A mix of sea drones, air drones, short-range missiles fired from the mountainous coast, and yes even the guys on the small speedboats make it hazardous to put our ships into the smaller-than-the-Black-Sea "lake" that is the Persian Gulf. Which is why we've almost entirely kept our vessels safely in the Gulf of Oman, and traversed the straits when there was a cease-fire in effect with Iran.
What would be the point of driving through the strait right now?
