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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

hormuz.pythonic.ninja

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Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

#54
post #4

So is the message here that demining the strait of Hormuz will be fairly easy? I was expecting some curve balls at the end with undecidable constellations but it was all quite straightforward.

Someone leaked this to POTUS and he based his whole strategy on it!

What strategy?

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

#55

Missing feature where you blanket nuke the whole area to destroy mines.

WHO is currently doing readiness for a nuclear attack in the region. This is America, the country willing to do the unconscionable when they're not winning fast enough. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Other than that, of course, WWII was perfectly civilized

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

#57
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might not be. It might be. Uncertainty is the point of what Iran is doing. There might be mines in the straight that are sophisticated enough to be armed, disarmed, or moved on command, or there might not. There might be artillery emplacements* hidden and not found, ready to pop up... or there might not. There are probably still plenty of drones and missiles all over the country that can be called down on Hormuz a…

Lloyds who are one of the biggest players have indicated cover is available. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/20/risk-london...

At what cost, I wonder?

And even then: "after you" ... "no, I insist, after you" ...

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

#59
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see for yourself if anything is passing: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.7/cente...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geg0eeyjeo > Before the war, about 138 ships passed through the strait each day according to the Joint Maritime Information Centre, carrying one fifth of the global oil supply. > The data provided by shipping analysts Kpler shows 99 vessels passing the narrow strait so far this month, an average of just 5-6 vessels a day. I mean, it's bad, but it's factually not a minefield. The th…

https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

#60
post #17

Wonderful! Now make another app that lets you pick which children are ok to kill

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It’s rather ironic that you would make this kind of comment at the same time as your other comment (I happened to notice) about the pen being mightier than the sword, considering that it’s light skinned Iranians (including literal Aryans) being killed by a hodgepodge of skin colors in Israel and among the US troops assembled for invasion and who will die killing the light(er) skinned Iranians.

Although the American troops are wildly disproportionately “white” because that is historically the pool of peasants the people with the pen draw on to sacrifice and murder for their wars, if you look at the forces and the US military in general, it’s the most diverse, multi-cultural, rainbow coalition in existence on this planet. You literally have people of every race, ethnicity, and nationality included in a rainbow of killing and they are proud of it; yet here we are being sarcastic about it being as simple as “whites” killing “browns”, not realizing that just demonstrates the pen’s lingering albeit still useful control over the mind.

Your point is well made though, the pen is indeed far more powerful when it can hide in plain sight the multi-cultural, rainbow coalition, diversity sword of the maniacal, narcissistic, psychopathic, child raping, Epstein class right in front of you.

The pen is indeed far mightier than the sword

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