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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45812287

April 11, 2026

U.S. Navy ships sent an unmistakable signal Saturday as they crossed the Strait of Hormuz, challenging Iran’s control over the narrow waterway that will likely determine the outcome of the Middle East war.

The USS Michael Murphy turned on its automatic identification system as it and another destroyer, the USS Frank E. Peterson, transited the strait, breaking the typical protocol of Navy ships sailing with their AIS turned off.

“You just don’t throw AIS on by accident on a Navy ship,” Campbell University professor Salvatore Mercogliano, who specializes in military and maritime history, said on his podcast. “This is purposeful. They wanted to turn this on on the far side of the Strait of Hormuz to demonstrate that they have sailed through.”

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[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Figure it's to get closer range detection of any launch sites/areas. If Iran responded it a gives out their locations, b makes them look worse on the world stage and c it shows others that it isn't a threat to sail through, all the while actually being one

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is not diplomacy, this is elementary school yard bully posturing for your lunch money.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Everyone knows that, but no country cares. Not China, not Russia, not the U.S., the U.K, and the U.N as a whole says it's fine. Top trading patterns of Israel go #1 China, #2 U.S. and everyone cowers and lets it happen because they let it happen. If either cared, they'd stop all trade and Israel would be forced to stop

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

France has some good ideas.

[-] DandomRude@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That much is clear. It’s just the modus operandi of this criminal regime to use a ceasefire as a pretext to gain an advantage. Israel has been doing the same thing all along for a long time.

This highlights two things:

  1. Nothing is sacred to these people, and they don’t care about international law either.

  2. Agreements with the U.S. are impossible, since the regime and its allies will never abide by them.

Thus, diplomacy is impossible from the outset.

That doesn't make the U.S. look good at all, but its psychotic leader doesn't care, because he's clearly not interested in the well-being of U.S. citizens, nor does he care that thousands upon thousands of people are dying in Iran.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Israel is fucking terrible, but it's the same playbook in Russia, and the Trump advisors have picked up on it. Trump is a sock, he couldn't complete a wordle

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

An AWACS aircraft would be better suited to that job though.

Oh, right.

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