The point of running those destroyers through the lower part of the strait was to show that the mining is either non-existent or non-functional, and that Iran's actually holding the strait hostage by forcing everyone to pay a toll in what should be an international trade route. We'll see in the next few days if the possibility of the US using Iran's own playbook against them was taken into account in any strategic planning the IRGC put together.
I understand your point, but this is still war, and regardless of what the "rules-based international order" might think, allowing Third World terrorist states to operate with impunity while forcing everyone else to conduct conflict with one hand tied behind its back is a primary reason all the brownoid bullshit that people complain about on this site has been allowed to take place.
At some point, that bullshit needs to be confronted, it's going to require shit getting broken, and unfortunately, it's going to hurt. This whole "end of history" pretense that's driven western foreign policy the last 35 years is going to have to evolve to something more realistic for today's geopolitical framework, if the west doesn't want to become just another brownoid trash heap in the next generation. Allowing the IRGC to get a functional nuke of any kind enables that, but these guys know how easy it is to manipulate leftoid pleasure centers by using their own cultural marxist buzzwords in their propaganda.
