Well, the issue is that the Boss keeps coming around spewing similar sounding rhetoric and then runs off when insulted/corrected.
Lol do you realize how pathetic that sounds yea man mission accomplished we increased the price of their bread
How are they? I'd certainly call my experience with their associated business Schlomo's Discount Pagers "the bomb", with an explosive value for the price. Plenty of bang for your buck.
The US military triggered an economic collapse in a distant land, by a very common measure (hyperinflation of one of the most essential commodities) with 3 months of effort, only one of which had active bombing. The US pushed Iran into negotiations largely on American terms with very few concessions, while losing very little leverage to restart strikes or the blockade. They did it while defeating the strategy of Iran, which was to trigger economic collapse in America and the world at large, by holding the oil flows of countries that weren't party to the conflict hostage. While oil prices increased, the US met a large portion of production shortfall and managed to exfiltrate oil from the strait. The US even managed to leverage Iran's biggest backer, China, into putting pressure on Iran to enter negotiations.
The Seventh Carrier. Sounds cracktastic.
Except they're not. The majority are carrying oil from Iraq, Kuwait, and UAE. The fact they're transiting on the southern coast of the strait also speaks against Iran having any sort of influence over them. You can go on AIS right now, pick a random ship transiting the strait, and it's more likely than not it originated at khalifa. It will not be Iranian or Chinese. Iranian oil is transiting, but it's a fraction of the traffic.
I only ever had and read the final book, Assault of the Super Carrier. And yes, it was cracktastic but fun, since not a single one of the guys onboard Yonaga had any fucks to give in the slightest thanks to all that time in an ice cave and regularly called the Diet a bunch of cowardly old women thanks to everyone being forced to wear "Department of Parks" badges on their sleeves and hats instead of proper JMSDF insignia due to them refusing to actually go to war and presumably just designating Yonaga as a museum ship or something to justify the expenses of its upkeep and operation. The CAG even gets furious because they're getting shipped Hellcats instead of non-existent Zeroes and needs to be told to calm down by the Admiral in charge because its them or nothing.
I absolutely refuse to believe for a second that this account or capability caught the Pentagon off guard or shocked anyone in the intelligence community.
Hm.
Zero are carrying oil from Iraq, Kuwait and UAE.
I can't trust you though.
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Id give it a 50/50 shot. The negotiating team could be glad to get the IRGC mostly off their backs to cut a decent deal or they could play the victim and claim they are being blackmailed by the IRGC to extract concessions. 'Iran cries out in pain as they attack you.' The last option is they are in lockstep with the IRGC on every issue but that seems unlikely.
Those are ships going in, which is presumably why that twitter account censored their destinations for low-information idiots like you. Of course they're not carrying oil from anywhere. They're empty.
I guess Iran is in a perfect position to prove it by releasing a photo them together that wasn't some AI slop with the Gayatollah's picture framed on a wall curtain.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/23/senate-votes-block-trump-resuming-iran-war/
Functionally, it means nothing since Trump can veto it. Its more symbolic and signaling.
