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Well Trump will just reverse warn them right back that he's NO MORE MR NICE GUY!
Even if that means giving weeks and weeks more of angry extensions.
I think that one drone that hit Fujairah yesterday was a warning not to start the bonbing campaign again or they would knock out that port.
Well Trump will just reverse warn them right back that he's NO MORE MR NICE GUY!
Even if that means giving weeks and weeks more of angry extensions.
double post
Reportedly, UAE has been attacking them back.
Also reportedly, Saudi Arabia wants the US to escalate
I can't believe the oil market believes Trumps "Iran really want's to negotiate". Down 10% today, back up 15% tomorrow when Iran tells him to off.
That 1 page memorandum!
Genius!
Why spend years crafting an agreement like that sucker "Obamna" and have int'l inspectors verifying nuke materials and involve the int'l community leaders all over the planet - that actually worked as designed to reduce Irans nuke program;
when you can just do a 1 page memorandum from trump troof social musings?
Jenius!
Everyone knows this is just going to end up with a worse JCPOA. Why draw it out and destroy the world economy?
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 4 Weeks Ago at 02:06 PM.
When Trump had "all the cards" he forgot to tell us he was playing 52 Pickup.
52D chess
JFC what did I say?
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2052034849116979245
Saudi Arabia forced Trump to do a U-turn on Project Freedom
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...ies-rcna343845Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.
A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.
Malacca is pretty easy to bypass.
before Trump 2.0, militarization of maritime chokepoints was a theoretical conversation -- no more
Last edited by Winehole23; 4 Weeks Ago at 09:38 AM.
Iran substantially wrecked our sh!t
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...9pyYU3y0I5g4lkIranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.
The threat of air attacks rendered some of the U.S. bases in the region too dangerous to staff at normal levels, and commanders moved most of the personnel from these sites out of the range of Iranian fire at the start of the war, officials have said….
“The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a retired Marine Corps colonel, who reviewed the Iranian images at The Post’s request….
But the review by The Post — based on images dating from the war’s start through April 14 — reveals that scores of additional targets were struck at the sites, which are predominantly used by the U.S. military but shared with the host nations’ military forces and allies.
In all, The Post found 217 structures and 11 pieces of equipment that were damaged or destroyed at 15 U.S. military sites in the region….
[in addition to accommodation facilities] The Post also found that the attacks hit a satellite communications site at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Patriot missile defense equipment at Riffa and Isa air bases in Bahrain and Ali al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait, a satellite dish at the Naval Support Activity Bahrain — which serves as the headquarters of the U.S. 5th Fleet — a power plant at Camp Buehring in Kuwait and five fuel storage bladder sites across three bases.
Experts who reviewed The Post’s analysis said the damage at the sites suggested that the U.S. military had underestimated Iran’s targeting abilities, not adaptedsufficiently to modern drone warfare and left some bases under-protected.Some Persian Gulf nations have refused to allow the U.S. military to conduct offensive operations out of their bases. A U.S. official said bases in Bahrain and Kuwait were two of the hardest hit, possibly because they permitted attacks from their territory
Chief among them, experts said, is that Iranian forces have been more resilient than the Trump administration may have anticipated. Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a think tank, said plans to destroy Iran’s missile and drone forces fast enough to prevent them from inflicting serious damage underestimated “the depth of Iran’s pre-positioned targeting intelligence on fixed U.S. infrastructure.”
Grieco said the strategy also failed to account for the degree to which U.S. and Israeli air defenses had been used up during the 12-day conflict in June between Iran, Israel and the United States.
A U.S. official said that damage at the Naval Support Activity is “extensive” and that the headquarters there relocated to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, the home of U.S. Central Command. It is unlikely that troops, contractors or civilian employees will return to the base “anytime soon,” the official said.
Two other officials said U.S. forces may never return to regional bases in large numbers, though no final decision has been made.
“We have moved from an age of stealth to one where the entire battlespace is translucent and increasingly transparent,” said Bremer. “It feels like we should be on offense, but we are definitely playing defense around these bases.”
it's like people are aware of official market-moving announcements in advance
it's too obvious for mere handwaving by now
IF THEY TOLL US WE'LL HIT THEM WITH 100 MILLION % TARIFF.
scuttlebutt, but plausible
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