Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Watch: U.S. Navy Ships In Tense Encounter With Iranian Military Speedboats" video.

  1. That little boat could be loaded with nasty stuff. US sailors have no way of know hence why the boat is using its Horn as a warning. Any closer and they have have to open fire on it.
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  2. Nope they know full well as long as they do not come within a certain distance that the US will not fire on them. But you never know what could happen.
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  3. Until one of those little boats is loaded with nasty stuff and attacks but that would be a one time deal with the US response being a hundred times more deadly. Iran better hope that all its operators are on the same game plan and does nothing stupid.
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  4.  @silverhiker4549  US can go where they want and there is nothing anybody can do about it. They can whine and pretend they are from the US but it will do nothing.
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  5. Everybody is small to the US as they have a volume of attack that no other country can even attempt. The US would crush any of those nations at sea.
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  6. It is free and open waters that Several countries use.
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  7.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  British Navy can easily stop any Iranian ship. Britain could dominated that whole gulf if they wanted to.
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  8.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  You can fantasise but UK is still the UK. Royal Navy could clear out that whole section of sea if they wanted to. UK could park one carrier outside and allow destroyers to just travel up the gulf and Iran would be powerless.
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  9.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  Because the UK does not want to do it but it really depends on what Iran does. If one of those proxy groups that are funded by Iran was to carry out some stupid attack against the UK then it would become a different ball game entirely. Britain has nuclear weapons and a missile system that can allow them to carry out long range attacks but they simply never use them. Britain has a genuine intercontinental missile system that is fully capable.
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  10. I would would they like long term diving.
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  11. No they are only letting them know that next it would be firepower.
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  12. Once the US sends a message which they will Iran will back off. None of this has anything to do with Trump or Biden. They did this under Trump until a few messages were sent.
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  13.  John Lawrence Wariga  Russian navy is nothing like the US navy. The US could easily target those smaller boats with with a host of nasty defensive tools.
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  14. Those small boats attacking is a one time deal. They may get one sneak attack in but every time after that the US would be targeting every small boat and not allowing them within a few hundred yards.
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  15. Do not be so quick to mock. Every one of those sailors is aware that any of those boats could be used to attack a US naval ship All it takes is for one loaded up small boat to crash into the naval ship and many people could die.
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  16.  @Johnclark300  US government are the most professional.
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  17. Until they realize that Russian forces cannot actually do anything for them. Israel just wiped out a pile of Iranian proxies and Russia did nothing. Iran by the way has more to fear from Russia than the US or UK.
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  18. That sort of attack is a one time deal and what would transpire out of this is that the US would saturate the reason and just pick off the Iranians in the region to send out a message. Any other vessel that then tries to make that attack will be shot at ranges the Iranians cannot understand.
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  19. US is free to travel up the gulf and there is nothing anybody can do about it.
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  20. None of this has anything to do with Biden or Trump. Iran feels emboldened and is gearing up for war with Israel that they think can be fought with proxy forces that will keep them out of it. Israel recently did some air attacks to send a message to Iran nobody is sure if Iran is smart enough to understand the message though. Supposedly Russia has told Iran to keep their proxy assets away from Russian military presence due to the fear that Israel may take them all out.
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  21.  @ParallelComparison  Joe is a populist and will react based on the national mood. If the public want a response he will give it.
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  22.  @talhaturker6361  Travelling within any navies ship in an aggressive fashion can invite trouble. Iran only goes so far but at some point the US may take the gloves off.
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  23. Nope but they could get mangled up as the boat could be loaded up with nasty stuff. You may not think it is serious but the US navy most certainly does.
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  24. They tend to stay far enough out that the US will not open up on them but close enough to annoy. The US at some point may just decide to take the gloves off to send a message.
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  25. This tends to fall below Bidens radar as he does not care but he would be as hard as Trump if Iran did anything that was too stupid.
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  26.  @edas1315  US can go anywhere it wants and there is nothing anybody can do about it.
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  27.  @oleggalkin6508  Nothing happened. Iran cannot stop the US and throwing around little boats in front of US war ships is not exactly going to stop the US.
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  28.  @edas1315  US is still the most powerful on earth and Iran cannot do anything about them.
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  29. If the boat had Iranian flags and even attempted to an attack like that the price that the Iranian navy would pay would be very high. The only thing that saves those boats is the fact they are clearly showing that they are from Iran.
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