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anon1753124268

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tigerragman said:
As of today it is reported are now moving U.S. government employee's families out of the region. Me thinks the fuse is very short for Iran to begin dismantling their nuclear facilities w/o facing Israeli and/or U. S. military consequences.
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Not quite. Israel is preparing an operation on irans nuclear facilities.


Sounding like it’s actually imminent. Holy crap


 
BigPapaWhit

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Is Israel stretched thin? What other Arabic players are ready to take advantage? What’s the long game?

Who is leading ME policy for US right now?

So much going on I can’t keep up.
 
P. Marlowe

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GoodWord28 said:
Not quite. Israel is preparing an operation on irans nuclear facilities.


Sounding like it’s actually imminent. Holy crap


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Israel has had the op planned for well over a year, at this point. They don’t have the hardware or the platforms to deliver the hardware. They will participate and help, but any operation to significantly damage irans nuclear program will require US bombs and US planes to be successful.
 
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HunterPKP

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GoodWord28 said:
That makes sense. Plus, iran actually had plans to assassinate trump. Hes gonna handle bidness
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Trump doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks. Him saying today that it’s real simple that Iran can’t have nukes should be all anyone needs to hear.

Israel likely takes out all SAM efficacy. Then B2s rain fire and brimstone. If we limit collateral damage, then the government overthrow is also possible.

We need to stay out of it though.
 
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P. Marlowe

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HunterPKP said:
Trump doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks. Him saying today that it’s real simple that Iran can’t have nukes should be all anyone needs to hear.

Israel likely takes out all SAM efficacy. Then B2s rain fire and brimstone. If we limit collateral damage, then the government overthrow is also possible.

We need to stay out of it though.
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Op was planned last spring/summer. Plan all along was to sit on it until November. The October attack was basically the dress rehearsal and some intel gathering. Gave them a chance to take out some SAM batteries and light up some others.
 
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show your gold said:
Trump doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks. Him saying today that it’s real simple that Iran can’t have nukes should be all anyone needs to hear.

Israel likely takes out all SAM efficacy. Then B2s rain fire and brimstone. If we limit collateral damage, then the government overthrow is also possible.

We need to stay out of it though.
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Saudis meet with Trump this week behind the scenes talk about Iran . No matter if you are Democrat /Republican , Trump has done excellent job in building an relationship with the Saudis .

Prince Khalid bin Salman's White House talks focused on Middle East peace | Fox News

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met secretly with President Trump to discuss Iran de-escalation, Gaza war resolution, and potential Saudi-Israel normalization.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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njdirt said:
Op was planned last spring/summer. Plan all along was to sit on it until November. The October attack was basically the dress rehearsal and some intel gathering. Gave them a chance to take out some SAM batteries and light up some others.
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Also….i posted this. Like this exact post was actually me…
 
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njdirt said:
Israel has had the op planned for well over a year, at this point. They don’t have the hardware or the platforms to deliver the hardware. They will participate and help, but any operation to significantly damage irans nuclear program will require US bombs and US planes to be successful.
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Also posted this.
 
HunterPKP

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Keep your eyes on Middle East again. Trump drew the proverbial line in the sand in the last 24 hours with Iran. Last time he did that telling them to negotiate or else, we destroyed their most important nuclear facilities. Now the targets would be the IRGC and their most important bases/personnel/leadership.

Lincoln CSG is on station and at least 1 more CSG likely headed that way. F15Es at Diego Garcia with tanker support and a lot of hardware at bases in Jordan currently including F22s/35s.

IRGC has no incentive to comply or negotiate so I expect us to hit them. Limited to start and be heavy handed if necessary. Hope I'm wrong here, but I believe it's inevitable.
 
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HunterPKP said:
Keep your eyes on Middle East again. Trump drew the proverbial line in the sand in the last 24 hours with Iran. Last time he did that telling them to negotiate or else, we destroyed their most important nuclear facilities. Now the targets would be the IRGC and their most important bases/personnel/leadership.

Lincoln CSG is on station and at least 1 more CSG likely headed that way. F15Es at Diego Garcia with tanker support and a lot of hardware at bases in Jordan currently including F22s/35s.

IRGC has no incentive to comply or negotiate so I expect us to hit them. Limited to start and be heavy handed if necessary. Hope I'm wrong here, but I believe it's inevitable.
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Yes, but to be fair, the last time he did that was just a couple weeks ago and nothing happened while protesters got slaughtered. Maybe there will be more repercussions now.
 
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HunterPKP said:
Keep your eyes on Middle East again. Trump drew the proverbial line in the sand in the last 24 hours with Iran. Last time he did that telling them to negotiate or else, we destroyed their most important nuclear facilities. Now the targets would be the IRGC and their most important bases/personnel/leadership.

Lincoln CSG is on station and at least 1 more CSG likely headed that way. F15Es at Diego Garcia with tanker support and a lot of hardware at bases in Jordan currently including F22s/35s.

IRGC has no incentive to comply or negotiate so I expect us to hit them. Limited to start and be heavy handed if necessary. Hope I'm wrong here, but I believe it's inevitable.
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kidmike41

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DieHard4Clemson said:
I’m not an interventionist, generally speaking. But I’m in favor of supporting the Iranian people in their uprising.
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We need to stay out of this so bad. The uprising has already been squashed by the government. No one has ever surrendered to air power.
 
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If we manage to orchestrate a regime change in Iran, Israel won’t need America anymore. They will be completely unopposed in the Middle East. I haven’t decided if thats good or bad yet.
 
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HunterPKP said:
We've got 6 B2 bombers at Diego Garcia. 1 more to arrive this week. B52s are also on station there now. Over 10 C17s that are obviously transporting munitions for said bombers. Nearly 10 KC135 tankers. This is NOT a show of force. This is guarantee of force.

By end of week, the USS Carl Vinson will be on station with her Strike Group. The USS Truman has had it's Middle East deployment extended and has been attacking the Houthis in Yemen repeatedly for around a week or so now. A 3rd Strike Group is likely heading that way as well and I would guess it's either the Nimitz (that just departed on her last mission) or the USS Gerald Ford that is in pre-deployment maneuvers in the Western Atlantic. The USS GHWB is also prepping for departure from Norfolk and the USS Lincoln at North Island is prepping for departure. That's a lot of Naval hardware about to be a sea.

Trump's comments that Iran either plays ball or bad things are going to happen is not a bluff. We're gonna continue to hammer the Houthis. The dumbasses actually tried to launch missiles at the Truman Strike Group last week.

Add to it that the Israelis are very wary of Iran's nuclear program. They took out most, if not all air defenses around Iranian Military Critical Infrastructure in their last attack.

Just saying, something to keep close eyes on. This can all be found on the internet if you look. We're not even trying to hide it.
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And the Brits threatening to give Chagos Archipelago its independence. Including Diego Garcia. Now there is an island Trump should buy and annex.
 
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