The following is my answer to a Quora question: “If
Singapore-flagged vessels are put at risk, traversing the Strait of Hormuz,
will the Singapore Navy protect them?”
If Singapore-flagged vessels were threatened in the
Straits of Hormuz, the Republic of Singapore Navy is quite capable of deploying
to the Persian Gulf. Singapore has
deployed to the region before, but always as part of a multinational effort
under the auspices of the United Nations, never as a belligerent. The most recent deployment to the region was
as part of the international effort to curb piracy in the Gulf of Aden, at the
western entrance to the littoral waters of the Arabian Peninsula. The Straits of Hormuz is at the eastern edge
of the Arabian Peninsula.
The being said, the RSN is not expected to be deployed
there anytime soon, because Singapore is not involved with any dispute with
Iran. We are not America’s bitch,
antagonising the Iranians just to give Trump a jingoistic erection. That would be the UK, and Jeremy Hunt, as
foreign secretary. Iran is not going
around arresting ships. They are
retaliating against the seizure of their own vessels, and the strangulation of
their economic lifeline by the Americans, and their British sycophants.
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