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That's not how aircraft carriers are supposed to work. They stand back behind concentric layers of defenses and don't let anything get within 400 miles of them-- the Strait of Hormuz is too fucking narrow, the minute they try to go in there they're inside the range of all kinds of cheap land-based missiles and their main advantages are gone.

If we send carriers in there, they might actually get sunk.

I've seen it described as a trap so obvious and stupid it may as well be a cartoon box with a stick under it tied to a string.

Iran probably would've loved to block us from the Strait a long time ago, but didn't because we'd bomb the shit out of them. Now that we're bombing them anyway, they have no reasons left not to give us the finger as hard as they possibly can for as long as they can. Which will fuck up our shit, badly, for years. A Shahed drone is $50k, the average 7 interceptors we throw to take one down cost MILLIONS.

Which is (just one of many many reasons) why this whole fucking mess was A BAD IDEA.

But you're otherwise quite right. If the oligarchs running this show cared about the consequences, they would've put a stop to it.

It's not just Iran that's being destabilized. It's THE WORLD.

Get what I'm saying?

The technofascist war profiteers see smoking rubble as easier to control than stable, functioning communities with democratic expectations. They want Iran to look like Gaza, and they're not going to stop with the Middle East. THEY'LL DO IT TO THE USA TOO. Nobody is fucking safe.