The agreement is close, closer, we are touching it… but let’s prepare a plan b in case everything goes wrong. He has led us to write (or analyze) almost everything. But now, Washington has made a move with a just in case that has finished disconcerting locals and strangers.
It has been Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State and head of diplomacy, the one who has addressed NATO to recommend or directly claim, that they shape “a plan b” just in case Iran decides not to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That alternative would involve, as has been suggested, a more far-reaching military operation.
For Rubio, everything indicates that Iran “is not going to reopen it voluntarily.” “What happens if Iran refuses to open the strait?What happens if Iran decides it is not going to open it?who is going to control it and collect tolls for it [a los barcos que circulen por el Estrecho]? At that point something will have to be done about it“, he told the press after telling the rest of the allies at the meeting of NATO ministers held by Sweden this Friday, aware of recent analyzes on the .
A faithful disciple of Donald Trump, Rubio has played that common say without saying. And especially, to leave the ball on the roof of the 31 remaining NATO allies, especially since there are countries that are “most deeply affected” for the closure of Hormuz than the US.
Regarding the alternative mission, he considers with the usual arrogance of the Trump Administration, that “The US could do it alone. But there are countries that have expressed interest in potentially participating in something like that if, in fact, we get to that point. We don’t need your help, but you are willing to do it and I think we should accept it if they offer it,” continued the head of American diplomacy.
Rubio has stopped slightly to analyze some already known proposal, such as the joint ‘defense’ initiative of France and the United Kingdom. In his opinion, an idea designed only for the case in which “the conditions are met”; that is, under a stable ceasefire and without danger to any foreign ship in the area. Something that it doesn’t happen today.
Therefore, returning to the worst scenario, “we have to have a plan B in case someone keeps shooting and how the strait is reopened.” “I raised it today, I don’t know if it would necessarily be a NATO mission, but yes they would be NATO countries those who could contribute to it,” he detailed, this time avoiding the ands that have been setting the international agenda for months.
