But are we ready to get into a hot war with Iran over it?

You guys have it backwards. Iran isn't ready to get into a hot war with us.
They're content to tug, tug, tug...just to see how many tugs Superman will put up with on his cape. Sooner or later the simple rules of FAFO have to apply.

You guys do realize that Iranian-backed terrorists have been firing live war shots at our destroyers and other ships for months, right? How many times are we going to allow that? Do you realize how expensive it is to fire off dozens of SM-6s and what not to bring these things down? Or what happens if some ship is a couple of seconds too late and takes a hit?

What then? The time has long past to first level the launchers and eliminate the Houthis who are doing the rocket firing.

Iran knows this. So if we threaten to sink an Iranian-flagged vessel in international waters, the most likely response from them would be to ignore the threat and do whatever they want with the vessel. It's not a credible threat.

Who threatened to sink anything? Not Trump in this scenario. He merely reposted a publicly available video with a caption. The only violent action I would take it is blowing up all the launchers the Houthis are using...and if a number of Iranian "advisors" were taken out at the same time, too bad. The flyby just adds some more flavor and is the way of saying...don't be next.

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