Tuesday, 5 May 2026
Trump has only one option for Iran
Iran is getting cockier by the way. They think they are winning, that they have Trump over an (oil) barrel and that if they keep obstructing the Strait of Hormuz, Trump will be forced to back down. So what options does Trump have? It still seems amazing that after more than nine weeks of war with a sort of ceasefire thrown in, the US still cannot say: Iran has been defeated, all of its missiles and drone factories have been busted and their navy of fast-attack boats has been cremated. This is what Trump should be able to claim, but Iran is nowhere near being defeated because they still have hundreds of these fast-attack boats armed with mines and missiles, they still have production lines pouring out drones and they have enough missiles left to target not just the US Navy but also the Gulf states' energy installations. What happened? Why has Iran still got all these warfighting assets? Why hasn't the US onliterated the coastlne hideaways from where these fast boats are emerging every day. This is the only option for the moment for Trump: keep the naval blockade going. keep escorting commercial vessels through the Strait, but at the same time, blast everything in sight along that coastline. The big navy may be destroyed - ie what frigates and patrol craft they had - but the small navy with the huge stock of attack boats, is still functioning very well. Trump loves the word 'obliterate'. So why hasn't he obliterated this deadly small-scale navy, so they cvan no longer threaten the Strait?
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