{"id":21711,"date":"2026-03-05T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21711"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:05:37","slug":"the-us-has-nowhere-near-enough-ships-in-the-area-to-escort-many-ships-through-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21711","title":{"rendered":"The US has nowhere near enough ships in the area to escort many ships through the Strait of Hormuz."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US has nowhere near enough ships in the area to escort many ships through the Strait of Hormuz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strait of Hormuz &amp; Persian Gulf Update | March 4, 2026 | US Sub Sinks Iranian Ship | Russian LNG Hit\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ruOkuy3Tqv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has nowhere near enough ships in the area to escort many ships through the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ruOkuy3Tqv0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,221,272,355,1218,1341,314,156,1056,576,1265,578,315,1226,170,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-21711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gas","tag-gas-prices","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-navy","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-oil-price","tag-russia","tag-shipping","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21712,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21711\/revisions\/21712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}