Strait of Hormuz now open?

[Italian Panic]

Up until now, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is still heating up and the US and Iranian militaries have entered a dangerous phase again. Because two days ago I read news that the US military reportedly launched a limited attack on Iranian military targets on Qeshm Island, which is a strategic area near the Strait of Hormuz.

The Strait of Hormuz will still be difficult to pass if the war continues. Especially since Iran has laid mines although right now these mines will only explode if a ship passes through the strait without permission, they still pose a danger if navigated. You could say the Strait of Hormuz is the most strategic route for global energy trade. So when tensions are still high the impact can spread across various sectors, from oil prices, insurance costs, energy supply stability to every country and so on.

Basically, the Strait of Hormuz is still tense right now because the two countries are still talking about possible diplomacy, but on the ground military activity hasn’t fully stopped yet.

I find it hard to understand just how far the United States interest in controlling the Strait of Hormuz extends. Because let’s be clear: an army like the american one could conquer that area and the neighbouring regions in no time and with little effort; yet it seems to have been conquered, but then there is always the influence of the Iranians or the Yemenis. Perhaps the current state of global confusion suits the US because it allows them to sell their raw materials at a higher price?

[fruktik]

I agree that many developing nations and even great civilizations have been brought under control a statesman incapable of statecraft. Examining how other great civilizations such as Persia, India, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt fared against China in the modern era is a truly fascinating subject. What enabled China to finally succeed in making a great leap forward compared to other civilizations ? We can answer this by looking at how China has responded to the threat of Western modernity.

The necessity of adopting Western industrial technologies and systems for survival without losing identity to avoid recurrence century of humiliation. Chinese learning for substance, Western learning for utility concept readopted, modified, and refined by modern Chinese leaders. They opening its economy wide like the West (the free market capitalist system, science, technology, corporate management, and global investment from the West, while keeping its political stability tightly locked down like China (absolute political control in the hands of the Communist Party) which bring extreme long term execution capability, matter of fact 30 years development plan with free political interruption has allowed their development to accelerate at a pace that seems implausible to Western nations.

China strictly filters what comes in. They adopt Western science and technology, but reject Western political values or westernization which actually loss of identity. China uses Western utilities to learn, once the science behind it had been studied, China built its own tech giants which in fact becomes a competitor to the West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Learning_as_Substance,_Western_Learning_for_Application

Hasn’t anyone ever mentioned that copying someone else’s work can have serious consequences? Why doesn’t anyone ever want to even come close to becoming the founders of a new, unique movement that will bring something truly breathtaking into our world? What kind of parasitic idea is it to copy from your neighbor? And what  will be the result? Will the concept turn out to be unworkable? What kind of recklessness and absurdity is this? Where is humanity ultimately headed? Toward a model of endless consumption?

Why are people so naive and haven’t learned the most important lesson—that they alone are responsible for their own lives? No one else has the right to decide how they should live or how they should conduct themselves in this world. All other ideologies are simply meaningless. They are a great delusion. Their value is zero. It’s all nonsense. We need to get through all of this and move on. Only in this way can humanity overcome all that vile mold that takes hold of people’s minds with each passing day.

[pooya87]

an army like the american one could conquer that area and the neighbouring regions in no time and with little effort;

US military is one of the weakest militaries in the world that has been starting war after war and losing all of them too because it is weak and corrupt. They neither have the fire power, nor the numbers nor the technology to win any wars. They are stuck in the 20th century. The only thing American terrorists are capable of is murdering civilians. Nothing else!

To face a super power like Iran on the ground, the weak US regime would require at least 1.5 to 2 million troops. Something they don't have. And that number is to just begin an invasion.
Majority of those forces would be vaporized in the first week.

As a matter of fact back in March this year the US regime tried to have boots on the ground inside Iran 2 times only.
The first time they were trying to invade from 2 fronts, first was from Kuwait's Bubiyan Island to take over the closest target in Iran which was Abadan's refinery and the second was from Emirates to take the closest and smallest Islands.
With the dominance Iran has over the entire region, the plan was found before they could even mobilize and Iran bombed them while they were preparing to launch the attack eliminating at least 600 of the Epstein Axis terrorists and sank 6 of their vessels in a blinking of an eye.

[DanWalker]

I find it hard to understand just how far the United States interest in controlling the Strait of Hormuz extends. Because let’s be clear: an army like the american one could conquer that area and the neighbouring regions in no time and with little effort; yet it seems to have been conquered, but then there is always the influence of the Iranians or the Yemenis. Perhaps the current state of global confusion suits the US because it allows them to sell their raw materials at a higher price?

No offense, but that's  an extremely  naive way of looking at geopolitic and modern warfare today. Because beating the other side in a fight and holding territory are 2 completely different things.

Iran has geographical advantage and asymmetric warfare capabilities that could make any large scale military operation extremely costly. So US may be a military superpower but that doesn't mean they can easily occupy any region without paying a price. The cost would be enormous, and there would be no guarantee of victory either.
There's nothing hard to understand here, bro.

You're also wrong to think the US is benefiting from high oil prices. That may be good for oil companies, but high oil prices hurt wider US economy and Americans.
If US were really benefiting from this, Trump and the Republicans probably would not have been crushed in the midterms. Right?

https://truthout.org/articles/while-americans-paid-148b-extra-on-gas-amid-war-big-oil-made-130b-in-profits/

[Italian Panic]

US military is one of the weakest militaries in the world that has been starting war after war and losing all of them too because it is weak and corrupt. They neither have the fire power, nor the numbers nor the technology to win any wars. They are stuck in the 20th century. The only thing American terrorists are capable of is murdering civilians. Nothing else!

To face a super power like Iran on the ground, the weak US regime would require at least 1.5 to 2 million troops. Something they don't have. And that number is to just begin an invasion.
Majority of those forces would be vaporized in the first week.

As a matter of fact back in March this year the US regime tried to have boots on the ground inside Iran 2 times only.
The first time they were trying to invade from 2 fronts, first was from Kuwait's Bubiyan Island to take over the closest target in Iran which was Abadan's refinery and the second was from Emirates to take the closest and smallest Islands.
With the dominance Iran has over the entire region, the plan was found before they could even mobilize and Iran bombed them while they were preparing to launch the attack eliminating at least 600 of the Epstein Axis terrorists and sank 6 of their vessels in a blinking of an eye.

I understand your hatred for the United States, and on many points raised in your link I largely agree, but I remain of the view that in these cases there is no such thing as the best there is only the strongest, and there are those who want to pretend to be strong without actually being so.
Ultimately, the numbers speak for themselves: the US spends 630k dollars per soldier, whilst Iran spends 23k dollars per unit, that’s a 55 time difference.
The US has an annual budget of one trillion, whilst Iran’s is around 30 billion.
If we look at aircraft, ships, submarines and everything else, the difference is colossal.

By this I do not mean to suggest that the United States is the saviour of the world; on the contrary, it bears enormous blame in countless situations, but its military strength is beyond dispute and that is another matter entirely.

You're also wrong to think the US is benefiting from high oil prices. That may be good for oil companies, but high oil prices hurt wider US economy and Americans.
If US were really benefiting from this, Trump and the Republicans probably would not have been crushed in the midterms. Right?

The oil economy is not just about America and Americans. The United States is supplying a great deal of gas and oil to Europe, low quality stuff at a high price. Europe has the worst politicians ever, who have alienated those who used to supply them with raw materials at low prices (Russia), so that they now have to buy them from the Yankee at triple the price. A true spectacle of politics, economics and incompetence.