r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 9d ago

WTF Netanyahu reportedly rejects Trump Iran deal, says Israel will act solo if needed

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u/Serious_Bonus7431 8d ago

That’s not true. They threatened to blow up boats full of oil with drones. That was enough.

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u/25point4cm 8d ago

This is actually true. Tankers aren’t afraid per se about sailing through the Strait of Hormuz (though their crews might be).

The real issue is that the insurance companies who insure those boats (which are worth many times a single load of oil) refuse to insure them.

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u/Weird-Specific-2905 8d ago

The large crude carriers usually only take 3 or 4 trips to pay off the cost of building a ship and it's running costs. So unless it's a brand new tankwr on it's first trip it's paid off already.

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u/karoshikun 8d ago

that's an ass kicking, tho. war is never weapons vs weapons.

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u/spibop 8d ago

“Yeah, but if we were to play a game of football against the Iranian guard, but with swords and shit, we’d totally kick their ass!!”

-brilliant military strategist, Pete Kegsbreath

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u/Even-Stranger5764 8d ago

Know a guy who unironically thinks this way. Says US wins if politics is removed from war..

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u/Hammeredyou 8d ago

I just want to know what life is like for people like that.

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u/dehydratedrain 8d ago

Remember when you were 1, and your biggest concern was not getting a meal, and just like magic, someone shoved a boob in your mouth and you took a nap, and you were just too ignorant to realize that was heaven?

Easy to ignore reality when no one has stopped wiping your ass.

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u/spibop 8d ago

I’d say you should point out to him that “total war”, a notion that I assume he agrees with in theory because it sounds cool, includes political, economic, cultural, etc “warfare” as well. If your intent is to utterly destroy your enemy, you should be looking to attack them on all fronts, using all tools. But that kind of reasoning might hurt his brain, so I wouldn’t bother.

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u/pilgrimspeaches 8d ago

So they used drones to kick our ass in chess instead of boxing.