James Dugan

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is A-10 Warthogs — Cold War tank-killers repurposed to strafe speedboats while truck-mounted cruise missile batteries remain dug into mountains they haven’t destroyed in three weeks, remote-detonated mines sit silently on the seabed, and the minesweepers that could actually clear them were moved out of the region before the first bomb dropped. They claim 120 Iranian vessels destroyed — Iran has thousands more in tunnels and islands specifically because they knew this day was coming, and a swarm designed for forty years to deny passage to the world’s greatest navy doesn’t die because a Warthog kills a fast boat. Their own experts told the WSJ l it will take weeks and you will never reach 100% safe passage through a 24-mile chokepoint where a single cruise missile fired from a hundred miles away can still find a supertanker and that was before Iran’s parliament started drafting a toll law to charge the world rent for waters Washington can’t take back. Three weeks in, $119 oil, 2,200 Marines improvising toward Iranian islands, and the most expensive military in human history is negotiating with a minefield it chose not to prepare for... because the people who planned this war planned 3 days of indiscriminate bombing, not the morning after. Forty years Iran prepared for this moment. Three weeks and the world’s wannabe superpower is improvising on how best to double down on the humiliation by going on as fish in a (24 mile wide) barrel. What more could possibly go wrong!