Trump supporters are so god-damned pathetic. They're falling over themselves to show how gullible they are. While the ship owners and other nations are denying that it was an Iranian attack, they are saying that Iranians attacked a Japanese oil tanker, while they were negotiating with Japan, with limpet mines. They further assert that one of the limpets failed to detonate, and the iranians, fearing they might be discovered, went out there in a boat and took the remaining explosive while on camera... this to better assure their stealth.
If we actually need to fight them, and that's the effectiveness of their armed forces, why should we deploy troops when we can just wait for them to three-stooges themselves to death?
Since the Iranian Republican Guard operates like a rogue military branch, I can believe that happening with bombing a Japanese tanker while talking with the Japanese PM.
Yeah like I don't want to be a conspiracy asshole but we are the only ones with the 90's-era-quality black and white surveillance footage that shows an unmarked boat blowing up the tanker and then we immediately blame Iran.
What noone taking US military surveillance had anything on the level of a 5-year old smartphone to work with there?
It was unmarked? Hm. You know, I'm also wondering how the tanker crew didn't notice a possibly unidentified boat coming alongside them. Sure, they could have taken advantage of chaos when the explosion happened but an unidentified boat coming alongside them would be pretty suspicious just about anywhere.
The fact that it's in black and white is odd also, unless maybe it's thermal, but no mention was made of it being a thermal nighttime image, which could also explain how they didn't notice the ship coming alongside them.
Britain is taking the tack that it was the Iranians ‘cause nobody else in the region has the resources to do it.
I was somewhat confused over how the Iranians removing unexploded ordinance from a vessel is solid proof they did it. Surely the Japanese would’ve been all “hey, that unexploded ordinance, could you get it off please?” ‘cause carrying unexploded ordinance for thousands of miles is probably a Bad Idea.
I think Trump is just trying the age-old technique of starting a war so he looks good and strong for an election.
I suppose the obvious answer would be that the unexploded ordiance would get discovered sooner or later and the origin of it could probably be determined easily, not to mention military hardware falling into the hands of people they don't want it to fall into the hands of.
I hadn't heard anything about the ship owners saying it wasn't Iran, though I saw something about the captian of the Japanese ship saying that something came flying at them and guess what, the same day, an Iranian ship in the area fired a missile at an US drone and missed. So, it's plausible that maybe one of those missiles missed and just happened to hit the tanker ship.
