The very reluctant, very slow, practically unarmed fellow travelers are lining up now to admit they were wrong accept appointments and high offices now that they think all the heavy lifting is done. No doubt they imagine roles for all of them in the new Persian Anarchy that follows the fall of the mullahs. I think it's about time somebody let them know that their first task in the new order is to wipe out all the pirates in the Red Sea and down around Perim and the Bab al Mandeb.
They'll have to go it alone this time because everyone knows our warships have shot their wad at Persia and have to go all the way back to Jacksonville and Yorktown to rearm. There's certainly no place in Djibouti, Bahrain, Jebel Ali or Fujairah to poke a missile into a hole in the deck. Nope.
I'm pretty sure they can do nothing at all against the pirates but isn't it about time that they learn that for themselves?
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Are you actually admitting that our vertical launch tubes are almost empty and Iran's strikes against our cases actually did something?
Bases not cases darn autocorrect.
Nope, I think they rearmed as needed in Djibouti or possibly even Fuj. The airhead and seaport there have been carefully nurtured by us for over 30 years.
I hate that too. I would like to get an honest appraisal of the damage to our bases and to the GCC infrastructure but given the locale that is really unlikely. In the meantime I don't believe what our media, their media or the world media say about any of it.
As Churchill said In war the truth must be guarded by a bodyguard of lies.
I fear that Trumps information bubble is going to get America into troubles
we can not predict.
Michael the anonymous
Nope, the ratfinks are everywhere and every single one of them is fingertap away from immortality by 'ratting out' President Trump. When they fail at that they make shit up.........every single time. I'm looking at poor Vox and McGregor and the rest of the old crew of stalwarts who have all decided that because they are a thousand times smarter than that idiot Trump and that moron Hegseth, it is only a matter of time until everyone realizes that we have LOST!!!!!
The problem of course is that this is now a thoroughly interconnected world and all their talk of bases destroyed, ships sunk and the catastrophic losses would be backed up by endless evidence and there is none. The shiite minority in all our partner GCC countries would have plastered shots of the damage all over the net and I don't see it and always keep in mind, the net censors are 100% in the bag as enemies of Trump, enemies of Western Civilization and just plain vicious crazy-mad so if there was facts in evidence, we would see them.
I'm waiting for the Abu Ghraib moment of this war but they keep jumping the gun with their panties on fire and no smoking gun, no flames, no nothing.
In the meantime, it looks very much like the President Trump and the men around him are remaking the world and letting everyone have a really good look at what the Globalists have done to us all over the last 80 years.
Dumping out the baby with the bathwater isn't clever, friend.
I read a lot of stuff I disagree with. THEN I look up any facts I can to verify if it's false (TDS) maybe true wait and see (all too often what Vox said shows up at a CENTCOM briefing as true about two weeks later) or HORRORS maybe they are right.
That they blocked Americans from seeing real time satellite views of the warzone is Churchill level bodyguarding NOT OPSEC as the Iranians HAVE Real Time satellite ISR from Russia and China.
We might not be losing but the facts I've found from sites I've learned to pay attention (and check facts always) too have shown many little CENTCOM denied "Facts" that became a CENTCOM Briefing a week or so later.
Poorly written but to say that we are not doing nearly as well as Trump's press briefings.
So far, the British sources are complete hopium and BS in general.
But I read it as it often seems to be prepping the media battlespace that a Boots on the ground "Victory if Trumps BRAVE enough" situation.
BTW the "Victory" is todays Telegram posting. Gave me chills.
As we've spoken before, friend. You can "WIN" and Lose in the same action.
We've spoken about how hollowed out our manufacturing has become from decades of offshoring for higher profits (American workers seem too expensive, send it to China and Asia).
That we've closed mines, factories (scrapping them or shipping off to China, Mexico, Asia) and thus LOST TRAINED Workers. You yourself have said how poorly American shipyards do even keeping our navy available. You yourself said we have little to NO anti-mine capability, little to no repair and refit capability beyond bases scattered all over the globe (And thus subject to politics and recently Ballistic Missile attacks).
I could go on but just remember the phrase Pyrrhic Victory is real life.
A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat.
Definition and Origin
A Pyrrhic victory refers to a situation where a person or group wins a battle or achieves a goal but suffers such devastating losses that it negates any sense of achievement or profit. The term is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who, in the 3rd century BC, fought against the Romans. After winning battles at Heraclea (280 BC) and Asculum (279 BC), he reportedly stated that another such victory would ruin him, as his army suffered heavy casualties.
Wikipedia
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Historical Context
Battle of Heraclea: Pyrrhus's forces faced the Romans and emerged victorious, but at a great cost in terms of soldiers and resources.
Battle of Asculum: This battle further exemplified the concept, as Pyrrhus won but lost many of his best troops, leading to a weakened position in subsequent conflicts. Ultimately, despite his initial successes, he was unable to sustain his campaign against the Romans and was defeated at the Battle of Beneventum in 275 BC.
Examples in History
Battle of Bunker Hill: During the American Revolutionary War, British forces won but suffered heavy casualties, making it a Pyrrhic victory in the eyes of many historians.
If the world looks at the "Victorious America" as the reason they are starving from lack of fertilizer, are they going to be friendly nations to trade with?
Starving people and violent revolution go hand in hand. Pretty hard to run for example a Medicine Factory or a Tire factory during a flaming revolution.
Cooper tire and Firestone American tire companies have the vast majority of their production in China, Asia, Mexico. I looked up where they get their synthetic rubber for tires. Asia imported.
Good comment on tires. Glad I just bought new ones.
I think the drone attacks and incursions in the US should be a wake up call, but I doubt the response will be seriously.
I will wait to see how the war plays out to make a judgment. I am happy so far.
I saw one of the centers for war analysis think tags has 'studied' the korea problem and decided that the GSMA has no need to worry because the norks don't have that much artillery pointed at Seoul and the ROKs have invested a lot in counterbattery. I kind of laughed because the nork artillery is dug in beyond your belief and will be firing from solid rock positions all along the heights. And second, I didn't really doubt that they'd use gas rounds right at the outset because they aren't fools and know damned well the population of Seoul is useless to them and worse than useless. They were going to select the neutron bomb option to kill the people and keep the city.
The analysis people don't think like this. They make the same stupid damned mistake every single time and start out each skull session with, "we assume all States to be rational actors" and this is despite knowing that it isn't true.
Vox and the rest still make their predictions based on what has come before and when they project they think they are using best/worse case projections but they are based on a faulty assumption. They assume they are dealing with rational actors.
Did any sane person who is familiar with the area and the people think the mullahs would surrender? Nope.
Did any sane person think we could successfully invade Persia and accomplish anything by doing so? Nope.
Did any person really think we could destroy 100% of everything? Nope.
Consider that this time we are using the Soviet rule book and we are way more cold blooded than they ever were. What are all the effects that you know about now from taking this action and I can tell you this because I used to do it, the guys that wrote the war plans for this move starting over 40 years ago have been refining them and best of all, they have not been written just at CENTCOM, these were written EVERYWHERE. Some of the thinking about 2nd and 3rd order effects are beyond belief but they were covered and there's packs of 06s and their staffs working and following up on every one of them.
Look at the fun bits that only come to light now and consider:
We know they will close the Strait. That's a given.
We assume they will also mine the Strait, they will if they can.
AND yet, we and the Royal Navy discarded 100% of our MCM assets in the Gulf back in December/January even knowing that we would need them to open a mined strait.......except, maybe we had no intention of conducting MCM operations to open a Strait we don't need.
SO this was aimed at our faithless friends and allies who all need the Strait open AND unmined.
IRAN cannot sell product except out of Kharg and they sure can't sell it without Q-routes of their own through the fields they put out and their navigation is shitty enough that they cannot really tell where the mines are to get good Q-routes and we'd simply follow their ships if they did.
I love how detailed this whole thing has been and as far as I can tell, we are right on the script. No changes, no unexpected deviations, just following the script to its conclusion. WE are waiting on Iran. We will see if there any Iranians left or if they are all islamic slaves of God.
Sigh, that Iran IS SELLING their OIL and charging safe passage from an ever-increasing number of nations who think 2 million Dollars in YUAN isn't as big a problem as doing without oil and fertilizer.
BTW who's stupid enough to think Russia blew up the pipeline? The same folks that think Iran is going to REALLY Mine the strait and RISK destroying their INCOME from 2 million dollar in Yuan from the shipping.
MSN rules the mind.
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