Again, not clear how the US plans to neutralize long range missile capability of Iran.
Target the depots and destroy them with artillery.
You quite literally have no clue regarding the subject you’re opining on here.
This was established decades ago in excersises the US has been running since the Cold War Era.
The goal isn’t to defeat Iran in a quick war, but to neutralize the nation’s long range artillery and turn it into a free fire zone for American and Israel armies.
Ukraine isn’t Iran. It has a firm rear guard of support from the NATO block, supply lines that can re-arm and re-staff depleted arsenals and positions along the eastern front, and allied agencies ready to pick at Russia’s flanks - by seizing cargo shipping, assassinating ranking political leadership, and blowing up critical domestic infrastructure.
What the Iranians lack, at the end of the day, is friends. Nobody in the Russian, Pakistani, or Chinese government is going to send saboteurs into Israel on their behalf. Nobody is going to help them keep the Straight of Hormuz shuttered. Nobody is going to blow up Saudi desalination plants or bomb peripheral American military bases.
Once Iran military can no longer produce and deploy new ballistic missiles, the country just becomes target practice for its enemies. We (probably) won’t see a Rumsfeld-style blitz into Tehran, like they managed in Baghdad. But we will see Iranian airspace closed, critical infrastructure destroyed, and population centers targeted to effectively break up the political face of Iran into its component parts.
What becomes of a nation without a central bureaucracy, an intercity municipal system, or a functional electrical grid? This was a country already in a water crisis months ago. It is a nation functionally under siege by the most sadistic and savage militaries in history. People are going to die by the millions before this is over, simply due to disease, drought, and famine. It’s going to be a country the size of Germany experiencing what Israel has done to Gaza.
Quite literally bombed into the Stone Age.
I think the plan is to have Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles demolished before then.
“People should be in the streets to stop the war”
“Will a protest march stop the war?”
“No! But… it’s tradition, you know?”
I’m sure we’ll hear about the Hamas tunnels any day now, assuming the media bothers to report on it at all
At the moment, it just sounds like “America is finally winning again” on all channels and frequencies
Genocide does be like that.
Next they’ll start targeting all the bakeries.
It’s a superhero TV show from the perspective of a kid growing up in the hood who is just a really big guy.
So google, amazon and Microsoft are hostile actors
Obviously not. They’re happy to give MI5 a backdoor into all their systems.
This is the apoteosis of incompetence.
The age old question - malicious or stupid.
I’m not going to explain the oil trade
To someone who works in it and sees the price figures every day?
I would love to see you try
US oil which costs 25x+ Saudi crude
West Texas Crude does not cost 25x Saudi Crude. Neither is it the primary US importer.
Saudi Arabian imports dropped to roughly 336,000–349,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2023–2024, down from over one million bpd in previous years. Meanwhile, Canada is the largest supplier, accounting for roughly 55-61% of U.S. imports, followed by Mexico.
Oil companies could actually use a boost right now. And the US is a net exporter.
The US positioned the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford, in the Middle East to join an earlier aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, that had moved to the region last month.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by threatening to sink the carriers.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive.
Shrug
I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.
But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.
They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
GOOD
Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.
I heard Reza Pahlavi is wildly popular in Iran right now and Iranian locals are enthusiastic about seeing the Shah returned to power. Is this true?
What’s the lie about Ukraine?
Yaroslav Hunka scandal leaps to mind. But farther than that, it was the same old “it’s not going to be a quagmire”, “it’s not just about propping up the US arms industry”, “we have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” line we’ve been hearing in every international theater.
Even the bit about Trump being “Putin’s Puppet” falls apart on any amount of historical interrogation. Trump was selling anti-tank missiles to Kiev as far back as 2018, three years before the Donbas invasion. He’d laid a bunch of sanctions on the country the first year he took office.
Then, as soon as Biden took office, he’s the one weak on Ukraine, according to the GOP.
Both parties egged their own supporters on by insisting the other party wasn’t Pro-Ukraine enough. Both parties insisted the other faction was “Communist”. Both insisted the other was a fifth column, trying to disarm the US from within. It was always and forever bullshit.
If they can keep the oil flowing, more power to them. Cuba needs a strong ally right now.
Apologies if I’ve touched a nerve.