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Where are you reading that?
This very thread!
No. I don't think any naval force has the ability to "handle this" - including our own. Or more specifically, no naval force has the ability to handle this without incurring non-trivial losses, which none of the countries in this discussion - including the U.S. - want to suffer.
Depends on how ruthless said force wants to be.
To try to open the strait. Again, we're staring down the barrel of a global energy crisis, to say nothing of the shortages in helium and fertilizer and other important industrial components that are sourced from the Gulf. If we could open the strait with minimal losses, we would have. We haven't, though. Which is why we keep pointing out to you that Iran has all the capabilities they need to have in order to keep the strait forced closed.
The strait's been closed for > a month now. Why isn't oil at $400 a barell right now?
