340. The Loop Tape

Malcolm Nance is a former United States Navy intelligence officer. He has read the Iran war game. This week he reviewed the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and called it the loop tape of stupid.

Here is the loop. Iran hits a ship. America strikes back. Iran hits Bahrain. America strikes back. Iran announces in advance which three targets it will hit next. America destroys the radar towers. Iran rebuilds them within days. The same three empty locations, on schedule, with increasing precision and decreasing effect.

(I want to be precise: the precision is increasing.)

Iran tracked one specific Qatari oil tanker for three hundred days. Not a class of vessel. One ship. Three hundred days of logging its movements, identifying the right moment. Last week it struck the bridge with one drone. No casualties. Just a message that took ten months to draft.

To actually remove Iran from the strait you would need ten thousand Marines, eight Iranian islands invaded simultaneously, Qatar losing its gas production, the United Arab Emirates bombarded around the clock. Malcolm Nance has the war game that describes this. He owns a copy. He has read the ending.

Iran has not yet deployed the thousand anti-ship missiles it has been stockpiling since 1988.

His advice to the President: take the deal.

The loop continues.