Showing posts with label Persian Gulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persian Gulf. Show all posts
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Ronald Reagan's goal of a 600-ship U.S. Navy made it to 594 in 1987, but in 2026 we can barely deploy 300 because of Bill Clinton, but Trumpty Dumpty never mentions that

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   After the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, Bill Clinton gutted the Navy. We went from 541 ships in 1992 to 336 by 1999. And now we can't ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

The U.S. has military bases in all Persian Gulf countries except Iran, from which Trump has launched attacks on Iran which will have the effect of bankrupting those countries

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 There is something deeply insane about all this. Only Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pipelines which can by-pass the Strait of Hormuz and re...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In other words, this would mean Trump is going to cut and run from the Persian Gulf just like he cut and ran from the Red Sea on May 6, 2025

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 Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz: Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open wou...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

The latest UKMTO JMIC Advisory on 3/29 indicates 12 tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz in the last 7 days vs. 2 previously, 78 through the Bab al-Mandab Strait vs. 130 previously

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 Persian Gulf Activity: 1.7/day last week vs. 0.3/day prior week Red Sea Activity: 11.1/day last week vs. 18.6/day prior week  JMIC Advisory...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...

If JP Morgan analysts are correct, April will be a month of rolling oil delivery stops from the Persian Gulf starting in E/SE Asia and East Africa April 1, Europe April 10, North America April 15, and Australia April 20

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The Houthis have joined Iran by restarting hostilities against Israel

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Trump couldn't finish the Houthis off last year, and now they come back to bite. Oil tankers filling at Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port in...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Trump creates an emergency by attacking Iran, turns right around and declares an emergency to by-pass Congress and sell weapons to Persian Gulf states even though we need another $200 billion from Congress for weapons

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    Trump invokes emergency powers with $23 billion in Gulf arms sales as Iran war wages on: WSJ report ... For some of the deals, the Ameri...

The Trump administration learned nothing from its fight to a draw with the Houthis last year

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... Iran is still believed to have a vast stockpile of mines, cruise missiles on trucks and hundreds of undamaged boats in hidden faciliti...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Trump cooperated with Israel in attacking world's largest gas field in Iran, giving Iran an opening to retaliate against Persian Gulf neighbors' oil and gas assets

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They've lit the world on fire. They're madmen.   WATCH: Iranian gas, oil infrastructure at Iran’s South Pars and Asaluyeh hit in Isr...
Monday, March 16, 2026

There are five U.S. flagged vessels trapped in the Persian Gulf but Trump is letting Iran ship oil out of there

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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Trump urges allies he's been insulting for over a year to send help to get oil flowing again from the Persian Gulf

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  Trump Urges Allies To Send Assets To Keep Strait of Hormuz Open ... This should have always been a team effort.  ...  The chutzpah.  Hey b...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Iran attacks vessels in the Persian Gulf but ships its own oil to China, threatens to mine the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. littoral combat ships prove inadequate as replacements for legacy minesweepers decommissioned last year

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Three cargo ships struck off Iran’s coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz   ... The UKMTO said it had received 17 reports of inc...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

If Daniel McCarthy were a conservative who understood history and human nature, he wouldn't issue embarrassing pronunciamentos like these

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 Win or lose, Donald Trump has begun the last war the United States is ever likely to fight in the Middle East. ... That's what we thoug...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Iran's last gasp, ship signals in the Strait of Hormuz jammed from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas

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Bloomberg reports:  Ship Signal Jamming in Persian Gulf Worsens as Conflict Widens  Navigation signals from more than 900 vessels in the St...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Russian Attack Sub Punks Obama's Navy In Gulf Of Mexico For A MONTH

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Spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad on nation building and protecting US interests in Europe, East Asia and the Persian Gulf, Ob...