April Fools!

Classic Donny Droopypants though.

Fix it yourself, Shitler.

I'm not surprised by this at all. There's no one behind the wheel. Ya know, this isn't a friggin Tesla. I expect crash and burn as a legitimate result. It only makes sense.

It doesn't matter how many British, French or Chinese ships you put into that channel, Iran has a free shot at all of them.

Trump is talking about putting Marines on the Khark oil terminal. They could destroy the terminal. But having 1000 marines on that little island does nothing for opening ship traffic. Khark is 300 miles from the choke point of Hormuz. The only way you can guarantee safe ship passage is to put troops on the ground all along Iran's Persian Gulf / Gulf of Oman coastline, and that will probably take 25,000 troops.

I don't know how many gun placements Iran has there, but I bet it is a lot.

Geography makes it easy to attack but difficult to defend.

They are as slow as ... supertankers. Sitting ducks.

The Patriot and other systems are for intercepting missiles that are high altitude, high speed, long-range. I bet Iran has lots of placements in the Hormuz area where they can shoot short-range rockets where a Patriot would be completely ineffective. One would think that, given the history of Hormuz, Iran probably has well-protected, underground firing positions.

The tunnels seem well protected

Ship owners and insurers are not too crazy about Hormuz

Count on it.