I have been viewing a lot of Trump's military adventurism as him setting the board for ww3. He has been going after BRIC energy sources, taking Venezuela's oil fields for the US, gimping Iran's oil industry, striking Russian refineries and seizing their tankers. Iran able to still intimidate civilian shipping is annoying, but that is a problem for Europe as they are not willing to help secure their own energy needs and will be useless when WW3 pops off and Iran and Russia shut off the tap for them anyway. As for Iran providing an area of denial. civilian shipping is extremely skiddish and of insurance companies say no, then ships are not going to pass even if they are safe from attacks. For the rest of Iran, the only area they deny the US are areas the US is not interested in. The recent rescue mission showed that even if the Iranians are hell bent on controlling the area (like the area of the missing pilot), if the US wants in, they will kick in the door, skull fuck anyone who trys to stop them, then leave before people can process what actually happened.
And whose going to show up for WW3?
The dumbass Strait can by bypassed by almost everyone but Iran. Iran's a nothing now, no problem. They're back to only being able to blow up civilian planes with Snackbars like when I was kid.
Russia? They couldn't take a soggy shit hole full of potato snatching retards. Their navy couldn't make it to the US and their Air Force isn't dropping paratroopers in the Midwest any time soon. Their AA might not be the hot shit we've thought for decades. They probably won't even have gasoline, like at the end of the Cold War where they couldn't even drive the tanks to Moscow without them running out of gas during their retarded revolution.
China? Well, it's true that their detection system works great. If it explodes, there's an F35 somewhere nearby. They have an achilles heel the size of a fucking dam. They know good and damn well they'd last less than Iran.
Both of them, we're not sure if they even have nukes and not a stack of boxes with MUKWE-ARE VEAPAWN on the top box.
Mexico? Yeah. They'll be able to do nothing but provide A10 food and hilarious videos as they find out that their chainsaws aren't helping them from a Puff the Magic Dragon.
Canada? India is unlikely to attack us through their colony, so we don't have to work there.
The EU? They're bragging their biggest military in the world with the most advanced equipment with the most soldiers, most tanks and planes, most helicopters and artillery, most artillery.
But we all know it's bullshit.
To be honest, Trump has ripped the guts out of any WW3, showed those dipshit vodka swilling morons and dog eating retards the same thing the arabs, that we might as well be doing fucking magic.
Despite those faggots at the Doomsday Clock, we're further away from WW3 than any point in my lifetime.