BREAKING NEWS: Not really.

I don't think they realize that anything that can be made to look like provocation is exactly the kind of thing the US government wants to justify an invasion of Iran.

The best reaction would be to send towards them a fleet of porn ships full of naked chicks: onboard religious authorities would try and force the crew to stay below decks, but young boiling blood would make the latter mutiny and make those bigot pricks walk the plank.

Yeah watch out america! LOL!

Welp....guess it's time we go "liberate" Iran

This is when politics gets dirty

America needs to mind it's own business so it can focus on it's own problems

Straight up clean shooting war is only the case when both sides aren't really willing to engage in serious combat. War means, at some time, occupying territory. And in that point, the USA had some fails (Vietnam) and some moderate success (Iraq). In an all out conflict, things are way different. China specifically is a hard one, they have a big population and soldier supply, all of them with huge discipline, that is an asset no other country in the world have and it is in that way by pure planning (they wanted to have a big population to be able to overcome an all out war with a large number of survivors. Actually they were expecting a full world nuclear war where the few hundreds of thousands of Russians and Americans survivors would be destroyed by millions of chinese survivors).

Vietnam says hi. They even have a national party every year to remember that.

I'd really be more worried some random US citizens are going to hijack/sink the thing then i would be that it was going to do anything.

Some US civilian ships have some pretty nasty weapons on them to fight off pirates.