Trump cucked to Iran here. They have two demands: to continue enriching nuclear material and to 100% control the strait. Trump basically just said they could continue controlling the strait. Why in the fuck would we allow that for more fake ass negotiations? Fuck.
Let's calm down, dude. The blockade is still in effect, so in essence, we just go back to the status quo of two days ago.
You might want to take a break if thirdie posting on X is getting you tilted. In the end Iran still has their ports blockaded, all functional relations with the rest of the gulf is severed (especially financial ones), and they aren't exactly fixing their water problem or the financial impact of no internet access. A kinetic resolution is probably preferable but because of Iran's own actions (bombing all their gulf neighbors and fucking with the ships) they're placed themselves into a position where this current play is way more effective than it would have ever been otherwise.
If the bombing restarts, it’s gonna be after the Beijing summit and the Iranian FM heads back home. Idk why people are getting antsy over it.
Does anyone have any idea what's actually going to be discussed at that summit?
Educated guess: “If you force Iran to agree to our deal, we’ll lift the blockade and give you some oil + AI chips”. Taiwan won’t be discussed.
Don’t worry, they’ll find something else to bitch about after they forget this by the end of tomorrow.
In spite of my last post, I think it's still way too premature to adopt a defeatist attitude. The Project Freedom stunt and reversal from it is shaping up to look like an avoidable mistake, but not terribly costly unless victory/defeat is being measured in izzat. Blockade's still in place and no significant assets have been withdrawn from the region, now if THAT had changed even slightly then it would make sense to start looking for the blackpill bottle. As is, it seems like the clock is just being rewound to before the Project Freedom announcement dropped (so like...before the weekend).
Yeah, but it's also a good indication that he gets very easily spooked by the prospect of casualties, and the IRGC will absolutely exploit that to the utmost. He mogged Iran into a ceasefire after the F-15 crew almost got captured because he's probably scared it's going to happen again. He's obviously not going to do boots on the ground, or we'd have a fuckton more people in the theater already. He does a big song and dance about getting a naval umbrella in place to get ships out of the Gulf, then stops the whole thing the very next day after destroyers had to take a bunch of incoming fire to get two US-flagged ships out, and came out of it without a scratch.
I kept saying he should have announced this last Friday lol.
Which is admirable in its own way. You don't want a leader who just sends his troops into the meat grinder. But there has to be a balance of risk somewhere.
Line simply refuses to go down. It's a law of nature.
I think you really are Bangladesh and you can fuck off to protesting your government again. You're government fucked over Myanmar.
Taiwan will not be discussed and even if its brought up its gonna be gay with Winnie the Pooh saying its always been part of China. This is despite Taiwan relations have gone to shit since Hong Kong yellow umbrella movement.
Well, that sort of thing was why the GLA buildings all had holes and auto-rebuild, as well as no power plants.
A guy I know who was in the Corps told a story from bootcamp about how a guy who had joined the Navy leaped over the fence separating the two training areas in a poorly planned attempt to ditch everything. They decided to keep the guy around for a week of Marine PT before sending him back in lieu of any more serious and official consequences.Force them to live in Marine Barracks and do pushups.
The ceasefire gave the markets time to start pricing things in.
IT ALWAYS FUCKING HAPPENS IN TUESDAY LMAO
Pakistan is 340,509 square miles in area. A 20 kiloton bomb such as those dropped on Japan during WWII destroyed a 10 square mile area in each city. In order to "glass" Pakistan, it would require 34,051 of the bombs dropped during WWII.
Counterargument: Worth it.
