>>16744189
i'm not denying the usa created a lot of their own problems but at the time trying to exert regional control made sense, there were a lot of froggy local threat actors like the turks, india (hence the investment in pakistan), syria etc
also i was under the impression it was saudi support that did that, since they seem not to like having a strong state on their immediate south border, so destabilizing it = good (in the mind of a nationstate with an attention span of 30 months)
at any rate it's not like the usa is the only one that thinks this way or is participating, uk, pizza, surrender and even greek warships have been engaging ashm and asbm fires down there, though the usa has fired the most interceptors afaik. there's still shipping passing through that corridor, even if less
imo this proved to me that obama's bullshit during the presidential debate with romney about modern militaries not having bayonets or whatever (when romney was just repeating the usn's own force assessment) was pants on head, and he ended up answerable for shitting out the number of hulls romney was talking about anyway in the form of lcs, except for the part where lcs is almost useless for tbmd and area air defense and is largely just a presence ship oops lol. european drawdown in naval assets post cold war didn't help either, good thing japan, canada, france, straya and the uk are now running shockingly big frigate buy programs? usn is also making a whole fucking mess of buying fremm now too, it's a whole thing
