What exactly is the US Navy trying to accomplish with their peevish and beta-male approach to dealing with the Iranians. Last year they permitted sailors to be placed under arrest, their fucking boats taken, and dignity destroyed. Now they’re ordering a fucking Destroyer to tuck tail and run from a few peasant Iranian speed boats. Literally.
This is the USS Nitze during a training excersize.
And this is what they did when four asshole terror boats came within 300 yards of them, ‘at a high rate of speed’, in the Straits of Hormuz.
The U.S. defense official said that in Tuesday’s incident the USS Nitze tried to communicate with the Iranian vessels 12 times, but received no response. It also fired 10 flares in the direction of two of the Iranian vessels.
“The Iranian high rate of closure… created a dangerous, harassing situation that could have led to further escalation, including additional defensive measures by Nitze,” the official said.
USS Nitze had to change course in order to distance itself from the Iranian vessels, the official said, adding that the incident could have led to a diplomatic protest, but the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Iran.
An official, speaking under the protection of anonymity–for reasons inexplicable to me– said the Iranian moves were “unsafe and unprofessional.”
My one question is WHY IS THIS OFFICIAL SCARED TO PUT HIS NAME TO A STATEMENT LIKE THAT?
This is fantastic for navy morale.
As you were.
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