U.S. Military vs. Iran: The tanker count just hit five
Things are heating up in the desert and the water is getting expensive.
After Iran decided to take shots at U.S. Navy warships near Jordan, the U.S. Military skipped the diplomatic sternly-worded letter and went straight to sinking things. Five Iranian oil tankers are now resting at the bottom of the ocean as a direct response to those attacks.
It is almost impressive how quickly a standard naval skirmish escalates into a massive bonfire of expensive fuel. Apparently, the current policy for handling maritime hostility involves turning the local energy infrastructure into artificial reefs.
Nothing says de-escalation quite like turning an entire fleet into a submarine simulation.
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