The Pentagon is considering a more robust naval presence in the Middle East to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as gas and oil prices continue to rise, but any operation won’t commence for at least a month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal, citing two U.S. officials, has said that the U.S. wants to reduce the threat from Iran before undertaking any escort operation, but that could take up to a month or more to accomplish, even as officials continue to downplay concerns over the strait and the impact its closure has had on global energy markets.
There are only 2 answers to the following question. Why a month to begin escorts?
We either are dragging our feet to keep oil costs high for Cheeto’s oil besties.
We have an incompetent military who can’t plan escort missions in less than a month.
Both can be true at the same time too.
Because that’s twice as long as two weeks and Trump figures everything will have blown over by then
Supposedly not enough ships to do the escorting.
one of them being russia, seeing as how they lifted some sanctions them recently.