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#19,254
NorthDallas40 said:
I’m still hung up on the fact the dumbass broke the free traffic thru the Strait and then says not our problems bitches peace out!
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Well, yea… that was a master class. But that’s a sunk cost at this point, unfortunately.

Where we are now, only a complete idiot would tell their adversary how much longer they plan on staying…..
 
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Delmar said:
Is anybody surprised? Everything is always two weeks away after he backs down from the original bluster.
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I think he's just playing the markets. He acts through the week like the war is winding down so that the stock market goes up. Then on the weekends after the stock market closes, he gets war hawkish again.
 
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A leaked internal directive from the IRGC’s missile command appears to show that the use of civilian locations to conceal, support and in some cases facilitate missile launch operations is not ad hoc, but structured, documented and built into operational planning.

The 33-page document shared with Iran International by the hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has been marked “very confidential” and is titled Instruction for Identification, Maintenance, and Use of Positions.

An organized doctrine, not an exception

The leaked directive therefore appears to document something broader than the existence of underground missile facilities or dispersed launch sites.

It points to an organized method for extending missile operations into the civilian sphere – using industrial buildings, service facilities, sports complexes, warehouses and other non-military spaces as part of a launch architecture designed to survive surveillance, evade detection and preserve firing capability under wartime pressure.

In that sense, the document is not just about positions where missiles are launched from. It is about how a military force can fold launch operations into everyday civilian geography – and in doing so, transfer the risks of missile warfare onto places and people that outwardly have nothing to do with it.
 
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Gonna put money on an Easter invasion. This administration is all about hokey, gimmicky, sideshowesque optics. This will reenergize the remaining much deflated MAGA base. You'll start seeing evangelicals talking about Trump being Jesus, Iran the great Satan, etc..
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Based on the amount of ground troops and now close air support aircraft getting moved into the region I think it’s an easy money bet
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Yeah I don’t think the US will destroy the oil infrastructure. They’ll want to keep it intact in order to siphon a percentage of the revenue when it’s over to help pay for the war.
 
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rekinhavoc said:

A leaked internal directive from the IRGC’s missile command appears to show that the use of civilian locations to conceal, support and in some cases facilitate missile launch operations is not ad hoc, but structured, documented and built into operational planning.

The 33-page document shared with Iran International by the hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has been marked “very confidential” and is titled Instruction for Identification, Maintenance, and Use of Positions.

An organized doctrine, not an exception

The leaked directive therefore appears to document something broader than the existence of underground missile facilities or dispersed launch sites.

It points to an organized method for extending missile operations into the civilian sphere – using industrial buildings, service facilities, sports complexes, warehouses and other non-military spaces as part of a launch architecture designed to survive surveillance, evade detection and preserve firing capability under wartime pressure.

In that sense, the document is not just about positions where missiles are launched from. It is about how a military force can fold launch operations into everyday civilian geography – and in doing so, transfer the risks of missile warfare onto places and people that outwardly have nothing to do with it.
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Sounds about right….
 
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BeardedVol said:
Sure we did, and it was moot anyway, the draw down to 2500 troops was finalized on January 15th 2021,5 days before Biden was sworn in, and against the will of Congress who overrode Trump's veto I might add.

Biden should have had to political fortitude to say this is a stupid idea, but he didn't, and with Trump's draw down to 2500 troops, it was untenable to leave them there since Bagram requires ~5,000 personnel to be maintained and defended.
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so if it was untenable why did Biden actually increase the time we were there?

why make the same people hold out for even longer if it was a lost cause going into it?

from Biden's perspective he added 50% to how long those 2500 were going to stay in Afghanistan. thats a significant enough change to put it on Biden. He did say Trumps plan was dumb, he changed it.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Trump had already reduced US forces to half of what is needed to even run Bagram by the time Biden was inaugurated.

So there were three options

1. Adhere to Trumps time table and pull the troops out by May 1st and watch the Afghan government fall
2. Move the date and hope that the Afghan government doesn't collapse at the later date.
3. Send back in additional troops to effectively man Bagram and prop up the Afghan government.

There was no good decision to be made here, Trump made sure of that, and you crying crocodile tears about it won't change it.
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what was supposed to happen in those three months that was going to make the Afghani government last any longer?

was there another election or something in the meantime that was going to strengthen the cause?
 
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