Given how expensive they are they were presumably supposed to do more than primarily stay out of range. There are less expensive ways of doing that.

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Jensson 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They block Iranian ports so Iran can no longer export oil, that is doing a lot.

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srean 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And Iran has blocked the strait too. It's at best a stalemate.

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Jensson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But this stalemate benefits US corporations by raising the price for oil, so its not really hurting the attacker. In order to hurt a plutocracy like USA you need to hurt the American stock market but American stocks are doing great.

	▲	srean 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's true. Both USA and Russia should be quite happy with the current state of affairs. China not so much. Rest of the world is quite pissed with USA. But that's just emotion. Unless it gets realised into something concrete it matters little.
	▲	yongjik 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Trump is at -20% net approval and it's steadily getting worse even now. Seems like most Americans don't decide whether things are going great by looking at S&P 500.