Over the next few weeks, keep your eyes on the Middle East
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As someone who's seen this rodeo before, a lot of this is just show of force posturing... Trying to get these dudes to the negotiating table. I hope it works.
Ain't nuthin' happening anytime soon.
It's Ramadan for one. Lot's of stuff still on the way.
It's Ramadan for one. Lot's of stuff still on the way.
Based on the demands being made and public comments in the last 24-48 hours by Vance and Rubio, it seems clear that this is what’s playing out. The demands are fairly stringent and were knowingly backing them into a corner. It’s a coup and big foreign policy win if they acquiesce to the terms (I’d be shocked). If they don’t, then the groundwork is being laid and the hardware put in place to deal. What that means as far as timing IF no agreement is reached, I don’t know. I would think absolute earliest action would be late Friday into the weekend. If there is no agreement, I think the US would prefer that Israel strike first from an optics/political perspective, and I don’t think Iran is stupid enough to do something escalatory on their own that would give the US a reason to respond.
Every politician that has taken money from AIPAC should be arrested for treason.
Posts like these are always useful. Gets a lot easier to filter out the irreparably stupid when they out themselves.
I’m a sephardic jew whose lineage has been in America since the American revolution. I’m sorry I don’t care about a country established in the 50s by a bunch of Europeans.
Israel and their pro war and Epstein policies have no place in America.
Continuing to make my point for me….
If it makes you feel better I’m heavily invested in oil so war with Iran will at least be profitable for me.
Not the Middle East but is military related. My son just found out his buddy (who joined the Air Force to be a mechanic) has been placed to work on the F-22 Raptor engines.
US authorized departure of “non-emergency” personnel and family members to leave Mission Israel due to “safety risks” and “while commercial flights are available.”
An anti-ship missile can - hypothetically - sink a ship? No ****. Who knew? IF that deal is finalized, those systems will never make it to Iran.
I was over there in 96 for Desert Strike. That was Iraq... I don't trust any man that wears his underwear on his head
Yes but......it takes more than one to sink a ship.
And TLAMS don't miss stationary land targets.
What is our strategic objective? Regime change?
This thread is so back. Give ‘em hell, boys.
It's hard to believe that we may soon see a world without Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. 
I have a good friend who is a hard working, honest Yemeni water engineer. He cannot work in Yemen because of the local Hezbollah soldiers and when he goes home to see his family, he has to stay in the home the whole time. Now, he bounces around the Horn of Africa finding work where he can. The faster that crew is out of power, the better.It's hard to believe that we may soon see a world without Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
Unfortunately, the root of the problem is much deeper than those groups. But it’s a dang start.
Some of our best friends live in Jordan. So our kids are having a coordinated “snow day” where they’re playing online together to take their attentions off of the missile sirens. Prayers to all those who have families especially military in the region.
Ethiopia is also gearing up to fight their “rebel” state (Tigray State), Eritrea, and possible Sudan. They’ve been amassing forces in the region. Rumor is that they’ve been waiting to see if the Iran situation would go big so that they can attack without much attention.
We could be looking at the Horn, the peninsula, and the greater Levant shut down at once.
We could be looking at the Horn, the peninsula, and the greater Levant shut down at once.
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Hope you all filled up like I recommended. This one is going to be a while. We struck the Ayatollah’s compound on purpose. Lincoln CSG is delivering hell to the Iranian Navy and we told the Chinese to get their navy vessels out of the area ASAP or face risk.
This one is gonna be much harsher than last summer IMO.
This one is gonna be much harsher than last summer IMO.
I just hope it doesn’t embolden any terrorist cells in America for retaliation
as far as I can tell, that’s the biggest risk to all of this to the Continental US
That’s going to happen. Avoid large mass crowd events for a bit if you’re worried.
I was just thinking about this in context of the World Cup. They’re gonna have to be on point security wise this summer.
There are no terrorist cells in the US
Do they still have nuclear capabilities? Thought we blew those up last time but I’m seeing that as justification
Well it’s par for the course with Israel, few things they like doing more than killing children and blowing up schools and hospitals. A truly godless nation and society
It will be fun revisiting this in a decade and wondering why the Middle East is still a chaotic mess. Just trading one problem for others.
Oh well, blessed to live here where life goes on.
Oh well, blessed to live here where life goes on.
yeah...the General they just interviewed on TV said this would be weeks, not days.
I could see potential terrorist attacks attempted but the good news is Iran does not have long range missiles that can reach the United State
Only about the 5th time they were struck preemptively.
They threaten the US but don’t have the ability to reach the US with missiles. Right
