ChuckeRearmed
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Depends. IRGC will be striking their own infrastructure then too.
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Monitoring the situation in Iran
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LordCBH
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What I would like to say should happen to every member of this brutal, terrorist regime (and Carter for enabling this by supporting them way back when) would likely get me kicked off the internet and on several watch lists.
calico
Member
Because waiting doesn't only give time to one side.
This is true. It's a matter of how significant a further 1-2% drop in global output really is at this point vs its value as leverage against Iran.
rorepmE
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Putting in context for people who don't know the political landscape of Japanese media.
HTH
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
The most important part. Everything else is just noise.
if the director, cinematographer, set lighting guy, "intimacy coordinator", and the actors are all doing their jobs well, HELL YES!
Seems more like 4.5%?
"Iran is the third-largest OPEC producer, pumping about 4.5% of global oil supplies. Iran's output is about 3.3 million bpd of crude, plus 1.3 million bpd of condensate and other liquids."
MisterFalcon
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Iranian oil is still being exported to China. It's the Qatar, UAE, Iraq, Saudi and Bahrain oil/gas/fertilizer that is not being shipped to the world and which is slowly creating a huge gap in all economies.
Jaybe
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I also have severe hate for Western-based terrorist sympathizers/propagandists. That they are crying because Netanyahu made an appearance and it seems like the public hanging of teenagers doesn't register as newsworthy with them, really puts into perspective the absolute scum that they are.
calico
Member
It's only the exported part we are concerned with. The part which is produced and consumed domestically will continue regardless.
LordCBH
Gold Member
Oh what I would like to say about them is even worse than what I have to say about the Iranian terror regime. I'll refrain though.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
People like you won't be satisfied until America is a totally walled off compound where people live in huts. You just don't know what you're talking about.
LordCBH
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rorepmE
Member
From the very beginning America was connected to world markets for the export of raw materials because America didn't have the industrial machines to make anything until the end of the 19th century via state-sanctioned industrial theft of IP from the UK. We have this core fantasy in our heads that America can be this self-sufficient island paradise when it never has been. Like watching a curated social media of preppers and off-grid people and romanticizing about how great life was in the pre-industrial society with water tanks Made in China that would have been 3x more expensive if it was "Made in USA". Their ultimate "exit strategy" was funded by the very system it critiques.
Genghis Khan = Hard Power
Jesus Christ = Soft Power
In a contest of Hard power vs Soft power, Hard power will always win regardless of who is evil or good.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Genghis Khan could not escape death.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
The question was a legitimate question. Are they supposed to just fawn over Trump?
rorepmE
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StabbyStabStabStabStab
Member
Alas no one can
Not Jesus
Not even Michael Jackson
We're all just walking sacks of death.
...on a brighter note though:
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Jesus was the only one to beat death in his resurrection.
StabbyStabStabStabStab
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Vestal
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rorepmE
Member
Imagine struggling to understand that soft power only works when backed by copious amounts of implied hard power.
LordCBH
Gold Member
Imagine struggling to understand that soft power only works when backed by copious amounts of implied hard power.
I'm hard at work. And you can read that with any inflection you'd like.
winjer
Gold Member
But it took 3 days to respawn. That is a lot of lag.
rorepmE
Member
Quite the analogy considering the overwhelming military superiority.
Correct. Ayatollah Khamenei's soft power death chants were no match for America's hard power death bombs.
Which is why he's dead.
Tams
Member
This is Iran's topography. In order to get to center of iran you are essetnially riding through valleys of death from which you can be ambushed easily from positions deep into mountains that are not possible to reach with bunker busting bombs. Add to that drones + mines and you have recipe for never ending production of caskets to who ever decides to invade them.
There is a reason why those guys are there before humans could even write.
From reports they also seem to spend last 50 years building vast underground networks and since they are oil state they had ton of money to do it well. Same reports say that their main operation hubs are around 1km underground same as Russian's, Chinese etc. Not even nuclear bombs will take them out.
If you can see their topography then you can also see that whole of strait is in reach of artilery fire from it's mountain range. If Iran wants to close straight it will close it and nothing you can do about it.
The best way to invade Iran is from pakistani side but that still gets you valleys of death just not as bad ones as with other routes but still you are looking at serious casulties.
Unless US is willing to commit mass of bodies and from looks of it no one has appetite for actual ground war in US there is no condition under which US can win this war.
Moreover the more time this war will go the better Iran forces will adapt to US hardware and strategies same way Ukrainians did. At start they were badly beaten but gradually over time they build up capabilities, tactics etc. where they could stop russians. Same thing happened in Afganistan. They were beaten, then reorganized, learned US tactics and started then to hears them, instead of using normal anti vehicle mines which humvess were pretty secure against with modification (in sense that crew can survive) they started to mass produce ied with any amount of explosives they want so they can adapt so not only humvess were being blown up but also apcs and other harder hardware.
Oh, there absolutely is a way to get people out of bunkers. A very effective one.
rorepmE
Member
Iran's maginot bunkers. Apparently they're all zombies that don't need water, food and air. Iran already had water shortage issues before the war.
daffyduck
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He could have answered that better, but the reporter was being disingenuous. Who didn't see this coming since January?
Wildebeest
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ChuckeRearmed
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Don't you know that if USA uses the same calendar as Israel it means that ISRAEL CONTROLS USA
rorepmE
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Don't you know that if USA uses the same calendar as Israel it means that ISRAEL CONTROLS USA
That list all the events and attacks in the last 47 years where they killed or maimed actual Americans.
But hey we have no skin in the game.
Gp1
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Exclusive: Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption, sources say
Monday will be very interesting...
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ChuckeRearmed
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The funny part from various discussions with some leftists, it seems like Iranian history has started in 2024 or something. Plus all the terror cells in USA seems to be just your friendly neighbourhood tourists too.That list all the events and attacks in the last 47 years where they killed or maimed actual Americans.
But hey we have no skin in the game.
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Avid Reading Horse
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It is largely a gelato-based international security mission.NATO said its mission would continue from a military headquarters in Naples, Italy. The mission does not have a combat role. It focuses on advising Iraqi security forces and helping them build up their capacities, according to NATO.
rorepmE
Member
Or they bring up 1953 where they installed the Shah (who was already on the throne LOL). So I started asking them when Mossadegh was elected and who his opponent was and how much did he win by in the election for "President of Iran". Really throws them for a loop
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DeafTourette
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It was distasteful. He's hosting the Prime Minister of Japan, not Comedy Night at the Apollo.
DeepEnigma
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Bitch eating crackers.
violence
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Hero of Spielberg
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Chittagong
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Mission accomplished
Hero of Spielberg
Member
But then …
www.nbcnews.com
Trump weighing several options for U.S. troops inside Iran
Discussions about possible ground troops have focused on missions aimed at escalating the war in attempt to end it, sources say, but no decisions have been made.
www.nbcnews.com
Pretty good article on Iran's strategy and attack capabilities with the Strait of Hormuz.
www.abc.net.au
Mosquito fleets, hidden caves and drones: The battle for the Strait of Hormuz
By moving so much of the war into the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, Tehran has hit its adversaries where it hurts the most and analysts warn that while the United States military is mighty, history shows in asymmetrical warfare, the lesser power can win the day.
www.abc.net.au
Forsete
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I wonder what is behind this Zelensky hate? Trying to force him to surrender, making snake oil deals for shit he will never get.
Not a good look America.. not a good look at all.
Thankfully the US does not hold much leverage over Ukraine anymore.
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