As for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open – the closure of which should have been foreseen! – Iran has already confirmed that all states that do not attack Iran can pass through it unhindered on the basis of an appropriate agreement, which is indeed what has happened. As is well known, 20 percent of the fuel consumed daily in the world, more precisely in East Asia, passes through there – a fact Trump, who was planning a trip to China, seemed not to take into account!? Nor the inevitable rise in fertilizer and food prices!?
The recent launch of ballistic missiles towards the British military base on Diego Garcia, 4,500 km away, and strikes on cities near Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona provided confirmation of Iran’s unexpectedly (?) great military capability. In response, Netanyahu promised to continue eliminating the top figures of the Iranian regime and once again called on Iranians to change the regime.
Trump’s new threat to take Greenland (to punish NATO «cowards») and the immediately following pledge to seize Kharki Island, which belongs to Iran, once again neatly brought history to mind – lessons that should not be forgotten.
As noted above, the US was already present in the Middle East in 1983, including in Lebanon. On 23 October 1983, two Islamic Jihad (from which Hezbollah later emerged) suicide bombers drove trucks packed with explosives into a US military base in Beirut, killing 241 US Marines and 58 French soldiers. Logically, everyone expected retaliation, but instead Reagan withdrew the troops from Lebanon. American honor was “saved” by a lightning-fast operation to seize the Caribbean island of Grenada, whose left-wing head of government was killed. The operation dragged on (was dragged out?) for eight days; the US lost 20 men in combat, the locals and the Cuban construction workers (?) fighting with them lost twice as many, and 640 Cubans and a few Russians were taken prisoner. The US press painted a powerful picture of victory in the home backyard.
