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Originally Posted by lustylad
If the US controls the Strait via blockade, it prevents Iran from implementing an alternate route/toll system. It gives us the ability to allow civilian ships in/out. I assume we'll be protecting and escorting them. We can halt Iranian oil exports without seizing or bombing Kharg Island. Makes sense to me.
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Per chatgpt -Operating a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and a supporting destroyer on the water for one day costs approximately $7 million to over $8 million, primarily driven by the high operational costs of the carrier.
Why should the United States taxpayers pay $8 million a day to babysit the straight? We didn't have to do that before all this bombing. It seems like a very short-term solution to a very long-term problem - exacerbated by Trump's latest follies. That doesn't make sense to me.
