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How embarrasing. Trumps Truth Social posts are just SO ed up.
Ukraine would like to help, are they allowed to?
How embarrasing. Trumps Truth Social posts are just SO ed up.
until 2018, we had all that
Trump ripped up the deal, Iran started enriching towards weapons strength and now here we are
Hegseth: "We would much prefer to get a deal. If Iran was willing to relinquish material they have and ambitions they have, open the strait, great. That's the goal. We don't want to have to do more militarily than we have to."
here's some of the 5D global strategery being imputed to Trump to cope with his flailing incompetence
too bad others treat it like a hymnal
Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
These s really don't want to admit that Trump is just a buffoon who doesn't know wtf he's doing. Ever.
trying to use a geostrategic blunder to shake down Europe for a few bucks should go well
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ir...ait-of-hormuz/Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
American taxpayers could be forgiven if recent events have left them wondering why the largest and most expensive Navy in the world is sitting well outside the Strait of Hormuz, watching powerlessly as the Iranians decide which ships they will allow to transit the waterway.
After all, they must wonder, why can’t the Navy simply blast the Iranians away and re-open the strait, sending life and the global economy back to normal?
Alas, the days of omnipotent U.S. sea power as a power projection instrument close to well defended shorelines are coming to an end. This change raises questions about the future of navies and the wisdom of investment in these extremely expensive instruments of national power. A brief review of American naval history shows how this shift came about — and casts doubt on whether Washington is ready for the future of naval war.
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Navy sailors flocked into ports in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar until late in the decade, when American intelligence detected active and ongoing construction work on Iran’s Abu Musa and Tunbs islands just inside the Strait of Hormuz, as well as on the coastline of Bandar Abbas, which border the strait. Upon closer examination, planners realized that Iran was installing anti-ship missiles into concrete and steel-reinforced bunkers, giving it the ability to easily target any ships passing near the strait. By the end of the 1990s, the Navy began reducing the transit of its carriers through the strait, and today those carriers are steaming well offshore outside the range of Iranian missiles.
The era of shore-based anti-access and area denial had arrived in the Persian Gulf. The balance between shore- and sea-based weapons had shifted in favor of shore-based weapons — particularly missiles. No more Yankee Stations were possible in areas where enemies had invested in arsenals of cheap, accurate cruise and ballistic missiles.
Iran’s steps to secure the Strait of Hormuz did not go unnoticed. The Chinese immediately grasped the implications of what Iran had accomplished and set about constructing its own “anti-Navy” system designed around missiles that could target U.S. Navy vessels that presumably would come to Taiwan’s aid in case of any cross-strait attack from the Chinese mainland. Today, China boasts various families of accurate ship-killing systems, notably the DF “Dong Feng” series of missiles that can track and target U.S. ships thousands of miles away while underway at sea. Many wargames today conclusively demonstrate that the United States Navy would take serious and perhaps unacceptable losses from these missiles in any war against China.
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Lessons of the Ukraine-Russia war are relevant. Ukraine successfully drove the Russian Black Sea Fleet from its shores through attacks by missiles and unmanned systems. Iran has integrated various of these systems into its tool kit in the strait. These systems aren’t necessarily sophisticated, but their mere existence introduces significant risks into U.S. Navy operations in and around the strait that can’t be discounted for mission planning purposes.
This is why the U.S. Navy hasn’t attempted to force its way through the strait. Simply put, Iran is threatening extremely expensive and manpower-intensive U.S. ships with weapons that are a fraction of the cost in exchange. Moreover, the United States can’t easily replace destroyed or damaged vessels due to the well-do ented decline of the shipbuilding industrial base.
If U.S. Navy ships can’t force their way through the strait, then some may ask whether the military could do so with the help of ground forces, as President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested.
But the reality is that such operations with relatively small numbers of troops cannot decisively alter the long-term strategic cir stances. Iran can threaten maritime operations in the strait relatively easily and cheaply through their missile, drone, and maritime unmanned attack systems from areas well back from the strait. There is no decisive military solution to this problem given Iran’s geography and military capabilities.
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OBLITERATED* !!!
Two leaders with nuclear weapons chose to start a war to distract from their various scandals and crimes.
My theory is more easily explained and believed.
Who could've seen this coming?
https://x.com/samstein/status/2038952287612076267
I'm absolutely on board with that. It would explain why seemingly everyday he comes up with a new emergency, whether it's illegals, Greenland Venezuela, or Iran. Anything so we don't talk Epstein.
https://tvpworld.com/92385076/poland...olish-patriotsPoland says ‘no’ to sending Patriot missile launcher to help US fight Iran
Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday that the United States had informally sounded out Warsaw about deploying one of its Patriot batteries to the Middle East, where American forces are in an increasing missile war with Iran.
Shortly after publication, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz dismissed the claims, posting on X: “Our Patriot batteries and their armament are used to protect Polish skies and NATO's eastern flank.
“Nothing is changing in this regard, and we are not planning to relocate them anywhere!
“Our allies know full well and understand how important the tasks we have here are.
“Poland's security is an absolute priority.”
Poland operates two Patriot batteries which reached full operational readiness in late 2025.
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Damn straight
and there's nothing you can do about it
You can't even say you support Trump's decision to follow Bibi into war with Iran.Damn straight
and there's nothing you can do about it
There's nothing you can do about that.
Why do you want to pay more for stuff when you don't have to? A lot more.Damn straight
and there's nothing you can do about it
His wife has chickens that make smartphones in her backyard.
well sure there is, we can vote your asses out of powerDamn straight
and there's nothing you can do about it
and then what?
continuity not change
Strait TACO
What a little crying you enabled.
then we'll see what, I bet it's noticeably differentand then what?
continuity not change
You think your party might raise the minimum wage by one penny?
no idea
politics is going to be different from now on, there's not a status quo ante to return to
y'all own the bad status quo, Snake Boy
what a swerve
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