Sean Gallagher  🐀 Mar 10
Steve Herman
(Reuters) — US Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-navy-tells-shipping-industry-hormuz-escorts-not-possible-now-2026-03-10/
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now

The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Reuters
Mar 10 at 10:02pmWeb
Show threadJackEnrodMar 10
@newsguyusa The brave brave Navy so bravely sailed away.
Show threadRoy Brander🍁Mar 10

@newsguyusa

Does the Noor anti-ship missile still have a 98% kill probability on an American carrier like they estimated 15 years ago?

May be listed under YJ-802, a Chinese missile Iran reverse engineered.

Show threadSecondUniverse (she/her/they)Mar 10
@newsguyusa Omigod, the USA is actually going to lose the war!
Show thread🦩 Plastic Garden Fauna 🦩Mar 11

@SecondUniverse @newsguyusa Is it loosing though if the price of oil goes up, bastards make a killing on oil futures, and the ruZZian economy gets another year of life?

American wars have nothing to do with regeim change. You can put that down. This is a bunch of salty boomers tryin' for a money hoarding high score by fucking the guys that fucked them back in the 1980's. Not because it's needed, but because they got nothing better to do with their retirement years.

Show threadJesuis  JedničkaMar 10
@newsguyusa but old senile egomaniac told he won already and does not need any help
Show threadJim HubbellMar 10
@newsguyusa
I'm old enough to remember when the US Navy stood into danger instead of running away. Convoy PQ-17 in WWII was abandoned by the British navy so that example doesn't count.