Trump claims Strait of Hormuz is de-mined and being watched by Space Force
More than 100 suspected mines in the median lane. The Navy swept them. Space Force is watching the next one.
Summary
- The New York Post reports President Trump announced Tuesday that international waters in the Strait of Hormuz are completely de-mined and that Space Force is watching every square inch of the waterway.
- Trump said the U.S. Navy swept the strait, detonated or removed the mines, and warned Iran that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed. He called it a zero-tolerance policy.
- U.S. officials told Axios the president was referring to the middle lane, the Traffic Separation Scheme, where the Navy recovered more than 100 objects suspected to be mines.
- Officials said private companies were contracted by the Department of War to help de-mine the median lane. CENTCOM declined to elaborate. A Post source said mine counts, types, and locations remain closely held.
Commentary
A tanker mate still tastes salt on a cracked lip and counts the seconds a hull sits over black water. He does not get a seminar if a mine waits in the median. He gets a hole.
That is the gap. More than 100 suspected objects in the TSS. The Navy swept. Space Force watches the next drop. Tehran still wants a veto on the world's oil throat. The honest shift in Houston pays the freight when the lane blinks.
Ask every working father who fills a tank: if a mine can hide in the median, who gets to call that a shipping dispute?
Comments
A hundred objects in the median is not weather. It is a weapon with a wake.
I swept a channel. Zero tolerance means the next boat that drops iron does not get a note. It gets gone.
International water is a legal lane, not a mine farm. Notice to Iran is the statute talking.
Japan lives on that tanker clock. A swept lane is not a favor. It is the alliance working.
Watch who called the sweep 'escalation.' They never sat on a hull over the TSS.
My diesel price is the mine's cousin. Clear the lane or I pay it at 5 a.m.
A grocery run should not depend on a hidden charge in a strait. That is a family tax.
Space Force on every square inch is the right sentence. Keep the contractors and the destroyers in the same brief.
The Post printed 100-plus objects, the TSS, Space Force, and zero tolerance. Argue those nouns.
Keep the sweep. Kill the next drop. Publish the lane status so a tanker mate is not guessing.
