Election Year or Fear!

[Ram Pant]

So, Israel pulls the US into attacking Iran.
Russia condemns it as illegal.
The attack, quite likely, opens the door for China to invade Taiwan.
No country is condemning the attack as they don't want to be called antisemitic.
Neither Israel not the US expected Iran to bomd the entire Gulf.
I am of the opinion that, regardless of what happens in this "war", whether it goes wel or not for Israel/USA, they don't have an exit strategy.
It will all end in tears, for the 90% of the Iranians who have been terrorised by the RG, Army and Police for decades. That 90% don't have weapons but the RG etc do, and lots iof them. Protests will, yet again see mass killings.

[swaledale]

So, Israel pulls the US into attacking Iran.
Russia condemns it as illegal.
The attack, quite likely, opens the door for China to invade Taiwan.
No country is condemning the attack as they don't want to be called antisemitic.
Neither Israel not the US expected Iran to bomd the entire Gulf.
I am of the opinion that, regardless of what happens in this "war", whether it goes wel or not for Israel/USA, they don't have an exit strategy.
It will all end in tears, for the 90% of the Iranians who have been terrorised by the RG, Army and Police for decades. That 90% don't have weapons but the RG etc do, and lots iof them. Protests will, yet again see mass killings.

Now the US has torpedoed an Iranian Warship off the coast of Sri Lanka! TV personality turned Sec of War Hegseth thinks its a video game. This is getting dangerous.

Plus the view is beign expressed that Iran has more drones than there are interceptors and could continue the random launching of drones for a long time.

One would think that the myth of being able to win a war, primarily through bombing, would have been busted by history, but then I guess the US doesn't recognise any history where its been a failure! Rather like Trump and his business "acumen"!

[Ram Pant]

Now the US has torpedoed an Iranian Warship off the coast of Sri Lanka! TV personality turned Sec of War Hegseth thinks its a video game. This is getting dangerous.

Plus the view is beign expressed that Iran has more drones than there are interceptors and could continue the random launching of drones for a long time.

One would think that the myth of being able to win a war, primarily through bombing, would have been busted by history, but then I guess the US doesn't recognise any history where its been a failure! Rather like Trump and his business "acumen"!

First torpedo sinking of a ship since WW2 according to Hegseth. Does the Belgrano sinking not count?

Trump said yesterday that it would be a huge mistake to have a crazy person in charge of Nuclear weapons. Are there no mirrors in the White House?

As I wrote earlier, there is NO clear purpose or exit strategy. IMO, give it a few weeks and they'll stop and make some fatuous claim of it all having been a success.

Cyprus representative in London saying they're unhappywith the UK. FFS we have TWO bases there. It was one of those bases that was hit. We have defences that seem not to have worked on that occasion. We're sending a ship in a couple of days once it's 100% stacked and ready. Allies like the French have boats there, France has a carrier on the way accompanied by a Dutch destroyer. We can't teleport ships there.

[ramAnag]

First torpedo sinking of a ship since WW2 according to Hegseth. Does the Belgrano sinking not count?

Trump said yesterday that it would be a huge mistake to have a crazy person in charge of Nuclear weapons. Are there no mirrors in the White House?

As I wrote earlier, there is NO clear purpose or exit strategy. IMO, give it a few weeks and they'll stop and make some fatuous claim of it all having been a success.

Cyprus representative in London saying they're unhappywith the UK. FFS we have TWO bases there. It was one of those bases that was hit. We have defences that seem not to have worked on that occasion. We're sending a ship in a couple of days once it's 100% stacked and ready. Allies like the French have boats there, France has a carrier on the way accompanied by a Dutch destroyer. We can't teleport ships there.

I think they said ‘first torpedo sinking by the US since WW2’, so…no.

My exact thought when I heard Trump’s utterance about ‘crazy people in charge’.

[swaledale]

I think they said ‘first torpedo sinking by the US since WW2’, so…no.

My exact thought when I heard Trump’s utterance about ‘crazy people in charge’.

Hopefully this will, 1) Piss off the MAGA's who don't believe in the US getting involved in foreign wars 2) Bugger the US economy as well as elsewhere, further upsetting the dumbass people who voted for this idiot.

Result in Trump being removed.