silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoIran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources saywww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down16
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minus-squareSunforged@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·16 hours agoIt all seems like the White House made it up so they could claim a win by disarming mines that were never placed. They are desperate for a narrative that makes them look competent.
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoI don’t know that that narrative would win them very much The US removed all its mine sweepers from the Gulf Also, even the threat of mines would make insurance prohibitively expensive and no ship would enter the area
It all seems like the White House made it up so they could claim a win by disarming mines that were never placed.
They are desperate for a narrative that makes them look competent.
I don’t know that that narrative would win them very much
The US removed all its mine sweepers from the Gulf
Also, even the threat of mines would make insurance prohibitively expensive and no ship would enter the area