Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Response to SWBKCB
Sun Tzu also said: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.
That little bumper sticker length phrase seems to apply to a number of nations
How very true ...
Today’s news is full of reports on alleged attack by IAF on Iran’s onshore Pars gas field facilities.
Has this anywhere been confimed beyond doubt? ... or, in the absence of any specifics on damage, might this be an opportune false flag by the IRGC to justify increasing attacks on their rivals’ faciliies around the Gulf?
I ask because - shurely! - Iran’s one critical vulnerability is its absolute economic dependence on petroleum exports, without which it is finished.
The USAF and IDF have hitherto carefully avoided attacking Iran’s petroleum facilities so as not to offer an excuse for cognate reprisals on friendly states - so, if the reports are true, does this not represent a ghastly own-goal by the IDF?
If ever common sense were to prevail - well, perhaps fat chance of that! - the war could have been ended swiftly by the ultimate ultimatum to the IRGC - “all ships in the Gulf of Aden will be subject to inspection by the USN, and to impoundment if carrying cargoes to or from Iran!” ... => Iran, finished!
Illegal? Piracy? Well maybe, but the rules of legality have been most sorely stretched in recent times by all sides ... and such an ultimatum might have saved much blood and treasure ... has that opportunity just been lost?