Iran

[ButchPlz]

 

[Majors]

He's not allowed to change his mind after getting new information, which he most certainly got in his position?

Sure, aren’t we all. Difference is not all of us are connected to leaking information to media outlets.

 

[appvol]

 

[ButchPlz]

Sure, aren’t we all. Difference is not all of us are connected to leaking information to media outlets.

According to...this administration?

 

[ButchPlz]

So this ****ing idiot appoints the man and says he's "always" thought he was weak.

GG pal.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Trump didn’t want that counter terrorism director anyway

 

[utvolpj]

I believe the recruiting forum version of this is:

We didn't want him anyways

 

[DuckInAPen]

Trump left a known leaker of intelligence in office for months (and left counterterrorism in the dark about new intelligence during that same period)? Sounds like good governance to me!

 

[DuckInAPen]

"I always thought he was weak on security. Very weak on security. And so I left him with responsibility for our nation's security."

 

[FLVOL_79]

Dammit man it doesn't work that way, now we're sure to have it happen.

Im hoping we collectively as a nation dont elect anyone over 70 ever again. Trumps cognitive decline since his first term is monumental. Makes Biden look as sharp as a mach 3 after a month's use.

 

[BeardedVol]

Man, how did ever get into the position he was in if he was so untrustworthy?

 

[ButchPlz]

Im hoping we collectively as a nation dont elect anyone over 70 ever again. Trumps cognitive decline since his first term is monumental. Makes Biden look as sharp as a mach 3 after a month's use.

I remember the right using Biden's outbursts as an example of his dementia/alzheimers/whatever. What do we call what Trump is doing?

 

[Volbucky]

Im hoping we collectively as a nation dont elect anyone over 70 ever again. Trumps cognitive decline since his first term is monumental. Makes Biden look as sharp as a mach 3 after a month's use.

Lol, can’t be serious with that comparison. Biden couldn’t even form a coherent sentence….. not talking gaffs. Just everyday he failed to speak coherently.

 

[appvol]

 

[lawgator1]

If ANY of that were REMOTELY true Trump would have said it earlier today.

 

[ButchPlz]

....are they actually treating him like a "principled statesman" or is that a made-up strawman to beat on?

 

[DuckInAPen]

FLASHBACK: The DANGEROUS Joe Kent had the president's support until just a few hours ago.

 

[BeardedVol]

Lol, can’t be serious with that comparison. Biden couldn’t even form a coherent sentence….. not talking gaffs. Just everyday he failed to speak coherently.

Here's Trump incoherently claiming to have destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities last year, and bringing peace the Middle-East.

 

[utvolpj]

You didn't watch this did you?

 

[FortSanders]

Y'all are missing the point. There is a lot of random rage here. Here is a sober well reasoned analysis.

This analyst lives in Doha, Qatar and was stationed in Iraq during the Irag war. He has a well-reasoned viewpoint. He says he "worked for the US Department of State and advised defence and intelligence agencies in multiple countries. I have no interest in cheerleading for war."

Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war....

But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.

When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.

I write this from Doha, where Iranian missiles have triggered alerts for residents to take shelter and Qatar Airways has started operating evacuation flights.

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why​

Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

 

[NashVol11]

Hilarious but again, if there's no Iranian navy, air force, or weapons systems, who the hell is closing down the Strait of Hormuz?

Methinks this conflict isn't going as well as we're being led to believe.

I agree. Maybe it's because I was younger during Iraq, but the propaganda and the push to hide everything negative seems so obvious this time

 

[FortSanders]

The Iranians are cutting off their noses to spite their collective faces.
The article continues:

US Senator Chris Murphy has called it evidence that President Donald Trump misjudged Iran’s capacity to retaliate. CNN has described it as proof that the administration has lost control of the war’s escalation.

The economic pain is real: Oil prices have surged, a record 400 million barrels of oil will be released from global reserves, and Gulf states are facing drone and missile strikes on their energy infrastructure.

But this framing inverts the strategic logic. Closing the strait was always Iran’s most visible retaliatory card, and always a wasting asset. About 90 percent of Iran’s own oil exports pass through Kharg Island and then the strait.

China, Tehran’s largest remaining economic partner, cannot receive Iranian crude while the strait is shut. Every day the blockade continues, Iran severs its own economic lifeline and alienates the one major power that has consistently shielded it at the United Nations. The closure does not just hurt the global economy; it accelerates Iran’s isolation.

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why​

Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

 

[lawgator1]

Here's Trump incoherently claiming to have destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities last year, and bringing peace the Middle-East.

He is so fixated on bragging and attacking anyone who dares say anything bad about him that he just rambles incoherently at times, looking for an off ramp to brag some more.

 

[FortSanders]

The analyst concludes:

[C]ritics are making a different error: They are treating the costs of action as if the costs of inaction were zero. They were not. They were measured in the slow accretion of a threat that, left unchecked, would have produced exactly the crisis everyone claims to fear: a nuclear-armed Iran capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz at will, surrounded by proxy forces that could hold the entire region hostage indefinitely.

Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defences, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery. The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why​

Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Lol, can’t be serious with that comparison. Biden couldn’t even form a coherent sentence….. not talking gaffs. Just everyday he failed to speak coherently.

They hid this clown in a basement for 90% of his campaign because they knew he couldn't walk or speak like an adult.