Video here:
After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in U.S. custody.
U.S. Navy Destroyer Disables Iranian-Flagged Cargo Vessel - Naval News
Edit : You beat me, K_C!
“firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun”
Sledgehammer - nut, eh? Overkill is the new minimum force.
What happened to fast-roping boarding parties from helicopters?
Even the f-ing Houthis could manage that!
Helicopter fast roping is too inexpensive. Another plus is they get gunnery practice.
Warfare doesn’t use minimum force. This isn’t just to stop a stupid merchant ship. It’s messaging the entirety of the merchant ship world, and all the politicians and … fill this space.
It says USA has stopped pussyfooting around. Comply or die.
Believe it or not, Iran is not the main target of this war. The target is the rivers of gold funding the deep state including the City of London and shady bankers in New York, Switzerland and every banking centre. If Trump can cut off the funds of the bankers, he can more easily turn to his main aim of saving America from their clutches. Bankers fund all wars on both sides and have done so for centuries.
It’s people like you that are driving American society’s narrative into extremely dangerous waters.
Look at those benevolent Americans here. Pilars of humanity , all St. Nicholases of Myra & Mother Teresas of the sea combined:
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After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in U.S. custody.
American forces acted in a deliberate, professional, and proportional manner to ensure compliance. " - have they given the poor Iranians some chicken tripple burger und coca cola ?? Tacos maybe ??
Meantime what the Russians do?: they kill children, erderly , pregnant women and bomb kindergardens and Izraelis in Gaza will built plazas , hotels , brothels " like nobody has ever seen and built before. All they do is simply " bautifull " like nobody has ever seen before .
Thank you for your attention into this matter 5500 Nm miles from New York.
Is Strait fo Hormuz in Central or South America?? This Monro fellow must have been very poor in the knowledge of geography .
And why these blocade ships are so far from Iranian shores?? Last time I heard all Iranian infrastructure, rockets, bombs , launchers ,planes , navy , all weapons and army was in tatters , completely wiped out and turned into stone age , that there was no need for boots on the ground.
So what these ships are so afraid of ??? They should already be alongside in Bandar Abass freeing Iranian wooman to fulfill their dreams to become hookers, drag queens , sharing joints , sniffing , making tatoos between their legs , having threesome , foursome and what not with U\S brave warriors boarding ships from above , underneath and best from behind . In another words enjoying all the benefits of fantastic American civilisation und democracy und freedom to hug trees and goats and be girls today, boys tomorow and camels two days later.
4000 thousand years they have been waiting for this I tell you .4000 thousand years waiting for the little hitlerite tugsailors .
Tow it to Oman and unload the valuable cargo and sell it.
Tow the ship to where it will drift up onto the Iranian shore and let it go.
Let the bunkers was up on the Iranian beach. Let them have a little taste of of the consequences of sinking a tanker at Hormuz.
So if the Iranians fire on a U.S. or U.S. ally flagged ship there will be no outrage? Apparently just part of this warfare business. Would if that U.S. ship is somewhere else in the world, perhaps anywhere? If the Iranians message is also “comply or die” what’s the end game? If we start a war and use certain tactics we better damn well be ready for our enemy to use those exact same tactics in return against us. That’s the road that this unnecessary war has sent us down.
“Shady bankers”? Do you know who has financed many of Trump’s prior projects? He’s not one with a great track record of paying his debts fully and regularly, and he has frequently been very highly leveraged given real estate speculation and development costs. Many traditional lending entities wouldn’t lend to him given his track record of poor performance and the fact that 6 of his companies filled for bankruptcy. He’s had to get pretty creative to get many of his supporting financing, at times from the very shadiest of bankers.
Then there’s Trump University. "Despite its name, the organization was not an accredited university or college. It conducted three- and five-day seminars (often called “retreats”) and used high-pressure tactics to sell them to its customers. It did not confer college credit, grant degrees, or grade its students. In 2011, the company became the subject of an inquiry by the New York Attorney General’s office for illegal business practices, which resulted in a lawsuit filed in August 2013.[6] An article in National Review called the organization a “massive scam.”
Trump University was also the subject of two class actions in federal court. The lawsuits centered on allegations that Trump University defrauded its students by using misleading marketing practices and engaging in aggressive sales tactics. The company and the lawsuits against it received renewed interest due to Trump’s candidacy in the 2016 presidential election. Despite repeatedly insisting he would not settle, Trump settled all three lawsuits in November 2016 for a total of $25 million after being elected president" So much more upstanding than typical universities that are just woke bastions of liberalism.
Thanks for the compliment. I’m flattered to think I possess this power and am “driving American society’s narrative” from my scruffy desk far removed as it is.
But my quest is to steer America (which I presume includes you) to the safe waters encapsulated in the term ‘MAGA’ and pray my own communist-led nation follows suit. You should read more widely to understand the depth of corruption and depravity in your elite establishment; names we all know and you probably voted for. I hear they will soon meet their fate. You will give thanks to those who achieve this - not me.
You didn’t understand a thing I said, did you? Read it all again but pause and reconsider before reverting to type and diverging on irrelevant TDS argumnetum ad hominem. Perhaps you too could read more widely.
For sure there is corruption and depravity in the elite establishment. No question.
The irony that you believe in Trump as your personal lord and savior, who will deliver us all from it is incredible.
“you see, i know how dirty donald is…I have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body..”
-Jeffrey Epstein
Is this the same opinion you have consistently held, even prior to January 20, 2025? Its okay, you dont actually have to answer that.
U.S. Marines depart amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) by helicopter and transit over the Arabian Sea to board and seize M/V Touska. The Marines rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel, April 19, after guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) disabled Touska’s
As the ship was already disabled I wonder why the US Marines needed to occupy it? Perhaps they just wanted some decent grub.
Are we heading back to a new “Golden Age of Piracy”?
It’s always hilarious & kinda sad to me when people honestly believe that this sundowning geriatric is somehow playing 4D chess while everyone else is playing checkers. This whole “drain the swamp” narrative, which is what you’re talking about, has already been proven as a fraud. It’s just something to get his MAGA supporters riled up and then nothing is actually done about it. If nothing else, the swamp has only gotten deeper, more polluted, and more widespread.
Had they fastroped would that have met your approval? Not likely.
Iran is an enemy. They’re responsible for thousands of American deaths, not to mention the tens of thousands of protesters. The world has evil in it who want to kill Americans. This is how we stop it. Get on board or stay out of the way.
Re-run.
Remember this guy, saying ,‘Mission accomplished!’, on the deck of an aircraft carrier? The Iraq War actually still had nine years to go.
The present guy said the war was over back in March. Meanwhile there are 20 US naval ships still attacking, and 10,000 troops waiting to invade, with more on the way.
Does that sound like the war has ended?
To me it sounds like…
Re-run.
Get on board or stay out of the way.
No, sir.
The world has evil in it who want to kill Americans. This is how we stop it.
Does the whole world look this black and white to you? Because this statement sounds like something a 10 year old, or a 12th-century crusader would say, not a modern, educated person with historical context and an understanding of the United States role in geopolitics over the last century.
