Right now there are two US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers – the Lincoln and the Roosevelt – on station in the Gulf of Oman in company with eight US destroyers, most likely two nuclear attack submarines not far away and many, many aircraft aboard. In the Eastern Mediterranean, America has a single Amphibious Ready Group – a force of Marines carried aboard lightly-armed amphibious ships – protected by a single Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Duncan.
In the Red Sea, where the Houthi militia continues to attack international shipping and where there is an abandoned oil tanker that has been on fire for nearly two weeks now, there are no US warships at all.
This tells us quite a few things some of which are obvious, some of which are worrying and baffling in equal measure.
The first is that facing down Iran is clearly the overwhelming US priority right now. Many would argue that it always has been and always will be, but having two carriers right there brings this to the here and now.
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Iran: U.S. warships are coming your way - Sept 3
Iran: U.S. warships are coming your way - Sept 3
Dan Steffens
Energy Prospectus Group
Energy Prospectus Group
Re: Iran: U.S. warships are coming your way - Sept 3
Thirteen days ago now, the oil tanker MV Sounion was attacked by the Houthis. A French Aspides ship came to the rescue whilst destroying an approaching surface drone. They put out the initial fires and evacuated the crew to Djibouti. With the ship now abandoned at anchor, the Houthis went back two days later, placed charges and filmed the subsequent explosion for social media.
The ship has been on fire ever since, with the material state of the underdeck gradually worsening. We know from other Houthi missile strikes just how strong merchant vessels are but eventually a fire like this will spread and ultimately compromise the watertight integrity of the hull. The amount of oil onboard, if spilled, would be four times that spilled from the Exxon Valdez. So far, there is ‘just’ a 4km slick coming from the Sounion.
“Sounion is laden with 150,000 tonnes of heavy crude and if it loses that cargo, the result would be oil pollution on a scale not caused by shipping so far this century…devastating the local fishing industry, a key source of food in a country in which 17m people suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity, on UN estimates”.
That country being Yemen, the populated areas of which are now largely ruled by the Houthis. Many on social media have argued that the problem is the Houthis’ to solve, since they have caused it. However it is pretty clear that they can’t and indeed would be quite likely to attack anyone attempting to salvage the Sounion.
The ship has been on fire ever since, with the material state of the underdeck gradually worsening. We know from other Houthi missile strikes just how strong merchant vessels are but eventually a fire like this will spread and ultimately compromise the watertight integrity of the hull. The amount of oil onboard, if spilled, would be four times that spilled from the Exxon Valdez. So far, there is ‘just’ a 4km slick coming from the Sounion.
“Sounion is laden with 150,000 tonnes of heavy crude and if it loses that cargo, the result would be oil pollution on a scale not caused by shipping so far this century…devastating the local fishing industry, a key source of food in a country in which 17m people suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity, on UN estimates”.
That country being Yemen, the populated areas of which are now largely ruled by the Houthis. Many on social media have argued that the problem is the Houthis’ to solve, since they have caused it. However it is pretty clear that they can’t and indeed would be quite likely to attack anyone attempting to salvage the Sounion.
Dan Steffens
Energy Prospectus Group
Energy Prospectus Group
Re: Iran: U.S. warships are coming your way - Sept 3
Biden gave them 6 billion in cash 
For what reason , I do not know.
The only thing that makes sense to me is someone got a kickback
For what reason , I do not know.
The only thing that makes sense to me is someone got a kickback