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    Good News – The US Controls the Strait of Hormuz, says Hegseth


    From CNBC reporting on Hegseth's testimony at hearing:

    He claimed to senators that “ultimately we control the Strait, because nothing’s going in that we don’t allow to go in.”

    (https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-05-12-2026#0000019e-1ceb-d9bf-a1ff-1fef83860000)

    Good News – The US Controls the Strait of Hormuz, says Hegseth
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    Posted by TiredTired99

    28 Comments

    7. ElTejon_TheDestroyer on

      There is only one piece of news that can come out of that administration that I will consider ‘good news’.

    8. yesidoes on

      Okay bud let’s just gloss over the fact that there’s also nothing going out that Iran doesn’t allow out

    11. Affectionate-Sale523 on

      And nothing is going out that Iran doesn’t let out. It’s chess for retards.

    17. MrStealYoBeef on

      That’s great and all but the world needs oil to come out of there and that’s not happening so… Maybe we *don’t* control it in any meaningful way?

    20. Affectionate-End2461 on

      Two negative added up doesn’t mean a positive. Make the math sensible!

    22. Ok-Reach-2580 on

      But the whole point is we want stuff going in and coming out. Its literally the whole problem. Nobody wants a blockade in the first place.

    24. radium_eye on

      Yeah, at huge cost, for a short term, in a non-viable/unsustainable way. And when we leave, Iran is then the de facto sole authority once more over the Strait, but with much greater control than they ever exerted previously in the Strait. Because this was a huge fucking mistake.

      We’re losing this shit. If we resume attacking them, kiss our allies’ energy infrastructure goodbye. We stopped hammering them because they were doing too much regional damage, including to our bases basically at-will, and we don’t have an answer for that. We do not have a good option here, and it was all fully predictable and the exact reason why nobody did this dumbassed approach previously.

      How in the world have we still not learned the basic lesson that a hundred years of war has tried to teach us, that you cannot achieve strategic objectives solely with airpower? This is an old story, but hubris and stupidity have a new day.

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