Amerikanets 📉 @ripplebrain
Last edited 14 Mar 2026 · 1:14 AM UTC
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To summarize the Kharg Island thing:
* Trump ordered a strike but it didn't target the oil terminal

* Kharg has already been struck earlier in the war and it's dubious that it has
any significant military assets on it anyway

* He threatened to target the oil terminal if Iran doesn't immediately reopen
the strait (which they won't)

* Targeting the oil terminal would just drive the price of crude higher, doing
so would make no sense

* The USN still isn't halting Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf or implementing a
counter blockade

* MEU (Marine Expeditionary Force) is en route but it's two weeks away

* Any landing force would be highly vulnerable to Iranian rocket systems and
drones

* Even if Kharg was taken and the oil there held hostage, the Iranians have
other options for export

* If Trump orders the systematic destruction of Iranian oil terminals they would
have no reason not to mine the strait and destroy all the oil infrastructure in
the rest of the Gulf

* None of this would do anything to open the strait

This entire exercise seems pointless and idiotic.