Will Trump lead a coalition to open the Hormuz Strait? (Poll)

[Zavulon]

"Mow the grass option". Bomb them again periodically. To dissuade their nuclear ambitions.
But the US blockade has to work eventually, no country can survive with no revenue

There are some problems in this "strategy". First - Iran still can trade with Russia and other neighbours (and destruction of all this trade is far beyond the limits of US military capabilities). Second - losing virtual ones and zeros in bank computers might be inconvenient (and they still can use alternative networks of bank computers), but the shortages in real oil and real energy might be deadly. Third - who knows, who will fall the first - Iran or other Gulf states?

If Hormuz stays closed, the countries that need it open need to provide escorts to open it.

Or they might decide to pressure the USA to f#ck off and leave the Easter Hemisphere.

If Iran can't sell oil due to the US blockade their wells lose capacity, their economy collapses.

It's simply not true. First of all, they can dump oil in the Gulf. Second, they can build fertilizers producing plants. All they need is nitrogen, oxygen and energy, and there is a lot of nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere. And storing or selling fertilisers might be safer, simpler and even more profitable.

Collapsing Iran's oil economy, and destroying their military capability is a strategy.

It's just a wishful thinking, and a set of wet dreams, not a strategy.

Opening Hormuz with international escorts would be helpful as well.

But who said, that those "international escorts" will attack Iranian shore missile complexes, and not American pirates? They are sitting ducks there and pretty vulnerable.

 

[kyzr]

There are some problems in this "strategy". First - Iran still can trade with Russia and other neighbours (and destruction of all this trade is far beyond the limits of US military capabilities). Second - losing virtual ones and zeros in bank computers might be inconvenient (and they still can use alternative networks of bank computers), but the shortages in real oil and real energy might be deadly. Third - who knows, who will fall the first - Iran or other Gulf states?

In order to trade Iran needs oil or money, if the blockade stays Iran will have neither.

Or they might decide to pressure the USA to f#ck off and leave the Eastern Hemisphere.

Nope, our blockade will be there as long as it takes.

It's simply not true. First of all, they can dump oil in the Gulf. Second, they can build fertilizers producing plants. All they need is nitrogen, oxygen and energy, and there is a lot of nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere. And storing or selling fertilisers might be safer, simpler and even more profitable.

If Iran dumps oil in the gulf the gulf states will attack them for messing with their desalinization plants.
Building fertilizer plants takes years.

It's just a wishful thinking, and a set of wet dreams, not a strategy.

It is happening, its not a fantasy.
"Collapsing Iran's oil economy, and destroying their military capability is a strategy."

But who said, that those "international escorts" will attack Iranian shore missile complexes, and not American pirates? They are sitting ducks there and pretty vulnerable.

Iran's missiles and drones can't hit US escorts.
Escorts are out in the strit protecting ships, the US bombers hit shore missile complexes.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

In order to trade Iran needs oil or money, if the blockade stays Iran will have neither.

Iran continues to move millions of barrels per day through the strait.

Step outside your bubble.