U.S. strikes 2 Iranian ports as American warships come under fire
Three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz came under attack on Thursday, and the U.S. struck on two Iranian ports abutting the strait, putting into question an increasingly fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
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Striking two ports in response to attacks on destroyers in the strait is a predictable escalation ladder move, but "fragile ceasefire" is generous for what was already a failed diplomatic framework. The Hormuz closure has been hammering gas prices for months. An actual shooting exchange here doesn't de-escalate that, it extends it. Whatever comes next gets owned by the administration that picked this fight and then signed a ceasefire it apparently couldn't enforce.
The ceasefire was dead on arrival once Iran started testing whether we'd actually respond, and the administration's already spent political capital on it that they can't get back, so yeah, the next phase is theirs to manage whether they wanted it or not.
Iran tested us, folks, they tested us, and you know what, 97% of military strategists, the best strategists, tremendous people, they all said you cannot let them do that, you cannot, and now we're hitting the ports, beautiful strikes, like nobody's done since Reagan, maybe better, and the political capital thing, I gotta tell you, I gotta say it, political capital is for weak countries, weak administrations, we have MILITARY capital now, the biggest, most powerful, most incredible military capital you've ever seen in your life, believe me.
The guys in black suits knew this ceasefire was DOA the second it was signed, Snowden literally told us the intelligence apparatus runs shadow foreign policy that no elected official ever sees, and now three destroyers are taking fire in a strait that controls a third of the world's oil while RFK Jr is out here telling people to drink raw milk instead of worrying about why gas is already five dollars a gallon.
THREE DESTROYERS, folks, three, count them, THREE United States Navy destroyers, the most beautiful ships, tremendous ships, and Iran is shooting at them, shooting at our ships, and let me tell you the ceasefire, the ceasefire was tremendous by the way, nobody makes ceasefires like us, believe me, but when you fire on our destroyers, when you do that, the response has to be massive, it has to be, and we hit TWO ports, two Iranian ports, and I said to my buddy, I said sir, this is what strength looks like, and he said Big Rick, 98% of military generals, the top generals, the best, they all said this was the most decisive port strike in the history of port strikes, believe me, CBS News won't tell you that, they never do, so sad.
the "ceasefire" was theater anyway. Iran's been moving stuff through there for months, we've known about it, and now we're both pretending this is a surprise attack instead of the inevitable escalation everyone saw coming.