Gulf War No.37: Iranistan

[CXRAndy]

No crime committed justifies collective punishment of a civilian population.

Many many of these civilians celebrated the action, they cheered the parading of naked hostages. The civilians even held some of the hostages captive.

Collective in celebration

 

[secretsqirrel]

Things are becoming a little clearer. The reason Donnie thinks the negotiations are going so well is because those they are talking to are not in charge. 😂🤪🤔

"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the administration must prepare for the "probability" that negotiations could fail, after Donald Trump said talks were happening with a "more reasonable" Iranian regime.
Speaking to ABC's Good Morning America, Rubio would not reveal who the US is speaking to, saying, "it would probably get them in trouble with some other groups inside of Iran".
"But at the end of the day we have to see if these people end up being the ones in charge," he adds."

Bet its Pezeshkian because he is ‘President of Iran’.

 

[Pinno718]

Israel just opened a huge LNG platform called 'Leviathan' in the Mediterranean.
...and the good 'ole yew ess of eh are threatening to bomb the LNG terminal in Iran.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

Can't help but thinking of a duck shoot if US forces land on Kharg Island, and it's a long sail up the Persian Gulf to get there...

 

[TailWindHome]

Many many of these civilians celebrated the action, they cheered the parading of naked hostages. The civilians even held some of the hostages captive.

Collective in celebration

Just skipping the denials and moving straight to the 'so what?', then?

 

[BoldonLad]

Can't help but thinking of a duck shoot if US forces land on Kharg Island, and it's a long sail up the Persian Gulf to get there...

They have to transit the Straits of Hormuz, to attack Kharg Island from the Sea, and, who controls Hormuz Strait?

I accept I am not. a military strategist, but, it appears to me only an airborne attack is a possibility.

Once captured, it has to be supplied, unless the occupiers are going to eat, drink and shoot oil.

Even if they take possession of Kharg Island, which may deny Iran oil revenue, how are they (the occupiers) going to to get the oil OUT, it still has to go through the Straits of Hormuz.

Any possibility of a "surprise" attack is surely gone, even we know how many and what type of US troops are in, or approaching the area. The Iranians probably know their names and addresses.

Am I missing something?

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

Even if they take possession of Kharg Island, which may deny Iran oil revenue, how are they (the occupiers) going to to get the oil OUT, it still has to go through the Straits of Hormuz. Am I missing something?

Failing to plan is failing to, err, something or other.
The whole episode has told us the US military is incapable of planning as once DJ says something, everyone is too scared to say no. Notable exception is the USN who refused to be put on tanker escort duties.

 

[All uphill]

Even if they take possession of Kharg Island, which may deny Iran oil revenue, how are they (the occupiers) going to to get the oil OUT, it still has to go through the Straits of Hormuz. Am I missing something?

No, you are thinking about the probable sequence of events. Not something D is known for.

 

[UglyWithaSidePart]

No, you are thinking about the probable sequence of events. Not something D is known for.

There will be many many commanders more than qualfied to point this out, but again, the US government is farked, it's completely top down and nobody gets to say a word unless they're MAGA.

 

[Milzy]

Oil prices are about to skyrocket so high that not only will your cars become obsolete, not only will we have another pandemic-style lockdown, but there will be a global famine due to pesticide and fertilizer depletion, all by late 2020’s-2030’s. But you aren’t ready for that conversation. The world as you know it is going to completely collapse.
Unless of course someone can pull a rabbit out of a hat.

 

[BoldonLad]

Oil prices are about to skyrocket so high that not only will your cars become obsolete, not only will we have another pandemic-style lockdown, but there will be a global famine due to pesticide and fertilizer depletion, all by late 2020’s-2030’s. But you aren’t ready for that conversation. The world as you know it is going to completely collapse.
Unless of course someone can pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Does this mean I should dig up my lawn and plant vegetables? 😂

In the "olden days" were used collect horse-shoot as fertiliser, we could start doing that again.

 

[Pblakeney]

Even if they take possession of Kharg Island, which may deny Iran oil revenue, how are they (the occupiers) going to to get the oil OUT, it still has to go through the Straits of Hormuz.

One minor little niggle. The island is at the end of a pipeline.
The Iranians just have to close the valves on the mainland.

 

[BoldonLad]

One minor little niggle. The island is at the end of a pipeline.
The Iranians just have to close the valves on the mainland.

oh dear, another flaw in the plan 😊

 

[CXRAndy]

One minor little niggle. The island is at the end of a pipeline.
The Iranians just have to close the valves on the mainland.

They do,

but how are they going to sell the 90% of their oil revenue then.

 

[Pblakeney]

Oil prices are about to skyrocket so high that not only will your cars become obsolete, not only will we have another pandemic-style lockdown, but there will be a global famine due to pesticide and fertilizer depletion, all by late 2020’s-2030’s. But you aren’t ready for that conversation. The world as you know it is going to completely collapse.
Unless of course someone can pull a rabbit out of a hat.

If we are doing the prediction thing then I predicted all of this during covid. Basically mankind repeating the 1920s/1930s.
Pandemic, boom, bust, facism, war. Just just quickstepped past the boom part and are moving forward at a faster pace.