It seems there's a flawed reading coming from a single point in time analysis

Region instability had ben regularly threatening freedom of navigation in the last five years

And USA may not consider the individual country strategic, but cares deeply about freedom of navigation, because the single market is basically the pillar for their hegemony.

Sarah Paine lectures give overall better lenses to look at this engagement.

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decimalenough 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As the article discusses in detail, if the US actually cares about freedom of navigation, the war was a massive own goal because it looks extremely likely to grant the current Iranian regime de facto control of the Strait.

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avereveard 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Iran already had the strait in ransom, directly and indirectly with proxy receiving weapons. You don't get to ignore that part and call this a own goal, since inaction led to the same effective results.

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sveme 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The strait was navigable until three weeks ago. There are very few conceivable paths towards reestablishing this. This is absolutely not the same effective result.

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avereveard 10 hours ago | parent [-]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/houthi-red-sea-a...

Mhm

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orwin 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It seems you can't read a map. And btw it's very different targets, Hormuz vessel contain oil, gas and fertiliser for the Asian market. The red see is mostly foodstuff, cattle and Asian good for the European market. Way less impactful

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Thiez 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You realize that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are different places, right? Your link does not support your argument.

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ozgrakkurt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same effective results as in it was causing constant global inflation and instability?

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ardit33 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What are you talking about? The strait was open, and tankers were not paying tolls as they do now.

They held the threat of closing it, as a deterrent of an attack, and once attacked, they did just that.

You either live in a parallel universe, or are just spewing here propaganda.

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		https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/houthi-red-sea-a... Lol there were routine attcaks every time things weren't going their way. Whos been in a parallel universe? And never said closed. I said ransom.

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guzfip 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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