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🇾🇪🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Houthis just officially entered the Iran war. US ships in the Red Sea are now targets. Remember — the last time Washington went to war with the Houthis, it fired over a thousand strikes into Yemen over two months and couldn’t stop them. It ended in a truce on Houthi terms. Now they’re back and rested. Watching 3 weeks of Iran absorb the most powerful air campaign since Iraq 2003 and yet still dictate kinetic terms. The Strait of Hormuz from the east. The Red Sea from the west. With Hezbollah fighting Israel from the North and Iraqi resistance hammering American interests in Iraq. [Quoting @IslanderWORLD]: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is A-10 Warthogs — Cold War tank-killers repurposed to strafe speedboats while truck-mounted cruise missile batteries remain dug into mountains they haven’t destroyed in three weeks, remote-detonated mines sit silently on the seabed, and the minesweepers that could actually clear them were moved out of the region before the first bomb dropped. They claim 120 Iranian vessels destroyed — Iran has thousands more in tunnels and islands specifically because they knew this day was coming, and a swarm designed for forty years to deny passage to the world’s greatest navy doesn’t die because a Warthog kills a fast boat. Their own experts told the WSJ l it will take weeks and you will never reach 100% safe passage through a 24-mile chokepoint where a single cruise missile fired from a hundred miles away can still find a supertanker and that was before Iran’s parliament started drafting a toll law to charge the world rent for waters Washington can’t take back. Three weeks in, $119 oil, 2,200 Marines improvising toward Iranian islands, and the most expensive military in human history is negotiating with a minefield it chose not to prepare for... because the people who planned this war planned 3 days of indiscriminate bombing, not the morning after. Forty years Iran prepared for this moment. Three weeks and the world’s wannabe superpower is improvising on how best to double down on the humiliation by going on as fish in a (24 mile wide) barrel. What more could possibly go wrong!

The Real Impact

Red Sea threats to shipping are real (NBC, CNN confirm), but the tweet's claims about 1,000+ prior strikes, truce terms, and inevitable US failure lack evidence. Conflating verified threats with unverifiable strategic predictions inflates stakes for policy decisions.

Tweet by @IslanderWORLD, requested by @chief283March 20, 2026View original tweet

Analyzed March 20, 2026 • Powered by AI • Always verify with primary sources