Originally Posted by
mahogany bob
America - finish the job - get rid of the Mullahs whilst you have the chance .
no other option
UK and Europe = give all the help you can .
What other countries of the 200+ ones that exist today are to be added to this Iist?
- Venezuela? (done a bit of that one...)
- Panama? (did some, might be time a do-over)
- Greenland? (just aspirational?)
- Canada? (1812 redux in reverse?)
- Oregon?
- California?
- Wisconsin?
At least there are great OPPLANS to copy for doing this:
- GW1
- GW2
- AFG-1001
- etc
We don't have to go back to Viet-nam, Korea, Somalia etc for the plans, the later ones were so much better.
The consensus building of a united NATO, united allied forces across the Atlantic have been memorable, amply aided by the fairly continuous stream of enthusiastic support for these at 2:00AM on Twitter/X, used to be Twitter/Truth Social.
I guess that invective, like beauty, is in the text of the authors.
The underlying problem is, nature abhors vacuums. This might result in the curious rush of air to the head of our politicians, but it also means that without a filler, there will be a fill, just not of choice medium. Iran would do well with a new government, one for the people, by the people etc, but that seems to not always work out as advertised either. They, the Iranians need to make the choice, having one forced upon them has a vanishingly small Pk of success, but does wonders for the need for homeland security.
I would think that the adults in the room might wish to determine first up what the reason for the current "excursion" is, then determine what the necessary outcome has to look like to resolve the reasons for whatever this is, and then to determine how that can be achieved, if that is possible at all.
Glad that the A-team is right on top of that... and not F-troop.
Nukes are bad, but there are a number of vectors by which that can arise, and increasing the justification for every country to have nukes as we move sadly by choice to a multipolar world strongly suggests that we are only at the start of this debacle. Wait until Maldives, Heard Island, Liechtenstein etc decide that they cannot rely on the status quo for defence of their interests, they need an independent WMD for their own survival. In all truth, the N of NBC is just one of 3 letters of options that exist to any nation on the planet. Of these, the B makes the N and the C pale into insignificance, but it tends to be rather indiscriminate.