absolutely he is. imo there's no way mojtaba is actually doing day-to-day governing. ali khamenei was the only person that ould keep the IRGC under the control of the clerical class; with him gone that dynamic has flipped, and now the IRGC runs the show.
If the IRGC does not abide by the deal, WE will close the strait. For now, we've allowed them to keep control over the strait, collect tolls, keep their ballistic missiles, drones, the nuclear dust (thanks B2 Bombers!!!) and support for their proxies. If they do not play ball, then simply we will stop allowing them to do so by allowing them to shoot missiles at Kuwait.
But I'm not an anti-America poster. You have a persecution complex.
So? America absolutely dominated militarily in Afghanistan and Vietnam too and still failed to achieve its strategic goals and ended up with Chinooks flying from embassies. Here, the US did not even have ANY strategic goals, it was all israel dragging them in the war. Since none of the israeli goals were achieved and the US wanting to fuck off and mind its own business instead of a world economy crashing standoff, Iran wins by default. Yeah, pretty fucking sad huh, but if there is a single takeaway from the past few decades is that you cannot bomb sandniggers to submission, even decades of occupation isn't enough to why even try, just pay them off and walk away. A superpower is supposed to be able to handle setbacks and defeats.
There is no "paradigm" I support and it requires no belief. The American loss in the end is meaningless and trivial compared to the previous massive blunders in the desert and in the end its even positive that it succeeded(so far) in avoiding it. A minor tactical defeat and a massive strategic victory if it leads to a permanent break between israel and the US.
So glad you're back, the thread was starting to go to shit without you, man.
Yes. The pledge of allegiance starts with you pledging allegiance to the flag and the republic. There's a reason it's both and not one or the other.
That's legit probably the most important thing to come out of the war is the Gulf Countries realizing that Iran is prefectly fine with going after them
I think it will end in with sanctions on Iran being reinstated and probably even harsher, bordering on an embargo.
Israel will probably do more IRGC decapitation and missile strikes, more radar and infrastructure but no bridges and no power plants. Maybe a few bridges since there are some are IRGC-only bridges used for quick missile transport around Tehran but thats it. Who knows, Mossad might be able to weaken the IRGC internally with smuggled FPV drone assassinations and not even need to use the IAF.
Especially if we make capturing their shadow fleet a permanent mainstay. You don't even have to risk putting assets that close to the country. Just track tankers that dock at Iranian ports, wait for them to sail out of missile range, then capture them. If Iran whines and threatens to blow something up, tell them to stop acting like retards first.
That works nicely (in a retard's head) until Iran ACTUALLY starts to blow the shit out of the oil infrastructure around the region.
Those tankers are not sailing with Iranian crew or under an Iranian flag. Most of them are Chinese assets and all they have to do is to hoist a PRC flag to be invulnerable, cause no one is going to start WW3 over a rusty tanker.
Embargos failed to break Cuba, the island with no resources and no strategic leverage. What makes you think they would break a larger, richer, more fanatical country, especially if it failed to do so during the past 47 years?
That's right, China is not going to start WW3 over a third country trying to take advantage of it by hoisting a PRC flag and claiming to be Chinese
Are you retarded? Iran can go scorched earth on the wells and refineries but the US can do it right back to them. Something something escalation ladder, measured response.
Hasan in shambles
So... 20% of oil production gone for at least 5-10 years... American victory somehow?
