Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
To use a boxing analogy: if one assumes (every plan carries within it planning assumptions) that the opponent will quit after a bloody nose, but the opponent chooses to fight until you throw the knockout punch, your boxing match turns into a slug fest.
I will ask, since I don't know, was this not a part of the plan of campaign?
If it wasn't, and given the experiences in the ME for the last 25 years by a lot of the people on the Joint Staff, why the heck not? Did they furlough or get rid off all of the people familiar with this region?
Thank you DOGE: how do you say that in Farsi?
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Gee, who saw that coming?
In the short term, this would appear to be an own goal.
LW, thats what
"unconditional surrender, we've won" looks like. I would prefer not to see what
"Ooops, my bad, cleanup on the Humus straightz" would look like".
It is a forlorn hope that an IQ, sobriety and personality test might be included in the talent quest that passes for the democratic process sometime soon. An additional requirement for the congress and senate may be... reading for comprehension, (start with something simple, like the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the Geneva Convention and then progress to the tough stuff, like Marvel's superhero stuff replete with cross of Jerusalem tattoos and all, after all, nothing ever went wrong with that line of activity...
We have seen 180/bbl before, when a USD actually had some value.
Its pretty cool to have the Blob assisting Vlad "the Impaler" Homer, and considering his advice on how to win friends and wars, he is of course a world recognised [fill in the blanks] with first hand knowledge of the meaning of the term, 3-DAY SMO, which is the mother of all D'oh moments. At the same moment, ET is asking to be handed Ukrainian technology in drones to assist [fill in the blanks]. I'm getting dizzy keeping up with who is playing who and who is paying.
Iran has never really needed buckets o' sunshine to mess with the rest... it had location, location, &, location. It has bog standard tubes to plink away at the artery that runs by its shores, and that would take continuous arc light activity to suppress, by now there is zero chance that the Iranians don't do base bleed, IIRC, Iran was quite adept at ERBB ammo, and that on a 155mm goes coast to coast. Targeting of a tub that is 3 football fields long doesn't need powerful juju or rocket science to undertake... thats old school, doesn't need shaheds, or other fancy stuff to go rowdy. There's 15-20 hours of transit that is not healthy, not even for the ships cat.
Iran doesn't need a navy to regulate the straits, Ukraine taught that lesson.
But at least the war is won, unless it isn't in which case rumour is that there will be "20 times" more rhetoric.
The strategy seems to less of a step towards a peace of prize, and more like a means to do a little insider trading on Wall Street, for which the loss of life on both sides so far seems like a small price to pay for profits for the needy's.