Oil and the "war" ...
1. India needs oil. A huge portion has been coming from Russian "ghost" tankers that NATO nations, Ukraine, and the US have squeezed almost dry.
2. The US has managed to shut down production in Iran and Venezuela, nations India also bought oil from.
3. The US wants to excuse Russia from sanctions keeping Russian oil off market. India can't afford oil because commodities futures and "crisis" investors make it too expensive.
4. The US Navy can open Hormuz and the Persian Gulf at any time: make no mistake about that. TACO wants to spread the risk and cost of his misadventure into Iran with a host of unwilling allies. By the use of US Navy in inaction, the US is hoping financial pressure will cause unwilling allies into joining into our misadventure in the Gulf.
Make no mistake: the Navy can and has before cleared the Gulf when both Iran and Yemen have tried to close it. Several times. The problem is not that three carrier groups can't do the job, it's been done before only one task group on station. It's that too many ground and air casualties will erode even more MAGATs from the basket of deplorables.
TACO is trying to keep promises to India, make nice with Putin, and rake in cash for the oil industry in the largest oil producing nation for more than the ten years: the US.
If we can't control their fields, we'll control the market. The US: a one nation OPEC. Plenty good money to be made for Big Oil and the Arms Industry.
= new reply since forum marked as read
