One of the three US aircraft carriers sent to threaten Iran will be heading back to the US “for maintenance”, with no date announced. So the military power built up against Iran is being dismantled as Pres. Trump says he prefers an economic blockade of Iran as being “safer” and more productive than continued bombing. He insisted that the blockade will continue until Iran agrees to no nuclear program. Since they can’t agree to this because it’s written into their constitution to develop and deploy nuclear weapons as a means of ruling the world, they will have to change their constitution and until they decide to do so they will continue to do all they can to prevent traffic through the Strait.
The US and UK “top diplomats” talked about “the need to open” the Strait of Hormuz on the phone. That’s all. Nothing more, just a blurt that they talked about it. No sense of urgency that I can get from that.
So the truth is that how long it will take to open the Strait is anyone’s guess, but it’s not likely to be at all soon and the longer it takes, the greater the loss of food production will be, along with motor fuel, plastics, many pharmaceuticals and so on.
It’s likely that in most developed nations, especially ones that have their own oil wells like the US, that gas and diesel fuels will be rationed. I remember gas rationing in WW2, and the coupon books. I still have a few that my grandmother had left over when the war ended. A lot of food was also rationed, mostly animal products, meat and butter. No fertilizers means no animal feed, means no animals.
In all the rest of the world, anyone who wants fuel will have to bribe someone, steal it, kill for it or riot in mobs in the effort to get it. Same for food.
The US carrier heading back is the George W. Bush, the largest one. For “Maintenance”, huh? For restocking with fresh bombs, missiles, bullets, airplane parts, pilot replacement, food stocks and etc, all the stuff a ship like that uses up on a 10 month war deployment. It doesn’t need maintenance, everything possibly needed to maintain the functionality of that ship is aboard it in triplicate or more, along with a well trained repair crew and anytime one leaves, his replacement is flown in. I was a seagoing Navy sailor for four years, I know how it works.
The reason that ship is going back for restocking and replenishment is because it’s wanted somewhere else. Cuba? Honestly, how much would it really take to conquer Cuba? If that ship shows up off Cuba’s shores and demands their surrender Or Else, the Cubans wouldn’t dare say no.
The only time we see any honesty in government, anywhere, is when some African dictator declares that he intends to kill all the Tsutsis or Hutus or whatever tribe because they’re the enemy tribe, as the bloodbath ensues. But this is only because he’s too stupid to care about diplomacy. Governments hate telling the citizens the truth about anything. In England, where most of the first US settlers came from, only the elite were schooled, ignorance of the masses was desired and one of the reasons so many braved death to emigrate. Also one of the reasons the founders put the Three Rs into the Constitution, much to the chagrin of later government heads.
Of course, public schools are all government funded, so what they teach is government controlled, including US and World history, but nooo, of course it’s not biased out of all recognition.
So today we have the Mainstream Media lying its collective ass off to us to keep our awareness of the reality around us in the Dark Ages, while the Side of Truth and Justice denounces them but does zero to stop them under the guise of Freedom of Speech and the Press, even as those who do expose the truth are prosecuted and imprisoned or just disappear.
No one mentions that if the US does take over Cuba it will probably result in China using that as moral justification to take over Taiwan. That would be interesting. Cuba doesn’t have much to fight back with while Taiwan is armed to the teeth, and they have at least 3 rows of sharp teeth. It might not go well for China, and that might be the reason the US is thinking of assaulting Cuba. But they’ll never tell us that, so I just did.
That’s enough for now. Again, stock up on dry and preserved foods. All foods will be affected, even fish because it takes a lot of fuel to run the fishing boats.