One of those rare times the President should trust his instincts

Came across this gem reading Congressional testimony today

Kurt Campbell spot on here in noting that China not only lacks interest in escalation management but actually sees benefits in making the US worry about escalation dangers. That's a feature, not a bug, of Chinese approach (or lack thereof) to arms control.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Randy Schriver is spot on here regarding U.S. economic and defense policies in Asia working at cross-purposes
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Funny how that works: it is indeed hard for DOD to prepare for war in Indo-Pacific when White House keeps launching major operations (Houthis, Iran) in the Middle East. www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...

"New satellite images show that work is underway at the Fordow underground facility"
www.twz.com/news-feature...

DOD reports 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) dropped, so close to the entire stockpile used in this operation.

I personally doubt Iran will do it, but issue is not just can Iran mine the strait (it can) or whether US can clear mines (it can, tho would be time consuming). 2/4
www.belfercenter.org/publication/...