CNN, the official media outlet for the US military, has some scary stuff on its website at this hour. Really scary.
So scary it's their top story. Seems that just a week or so ago the US Coast Guard ship Adak was harassed by Iranian Navy speedboats. You read that right. Harassed.
Now, set aside for a moment the obvious question, which is why the US Coast Guard is guarding coasts in the Persian Gulf, and focus on the meat of the issue.
There were Iranian personell on those Iranian boats off the coast of Iran, and they appeared to be holding AK-47 rifles!
Holy shit! Not the dreaded AK-47! And the Adak only has multiple .50 cal machine guns! Oh my God!
According to the CNN article, the Iranians were "provocative" twice, "aggressive" four times, and "threatening" twice in the space of about eight hundred words.
Luckily for our freedoms, our brave coast guard sailors held their ground, or at least their little patch of the Strait of Hormuz, and no shots were fired.
But at CNN it's the most important story in the world right now.
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