Iran War

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[Whack9]

Schrodinger's ceasefire

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Whack9

Wheels coming off.

Even Faux Noise has joined the mocking chorus:

TRUMP'S BIG BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE

Jessica Tarlov
(Co-host @thefive, Co-host Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway, defender of Democrats (when it makes sense) ...)

The ceasefire was a complete fiction. While the White House announced one, missiles were still flying across Israel, Iran, and Lebanon. Reality doesn’t match the headline.

The White House was forced to backtrack today because the proposed “10-point deal” from Iran was a disaster that would let them enrich uranium, fund proxies like Hezbollah, maintain leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, and get sanctions relief. Even top allies like Mark Levin and Larry Kudlow are calling it a disaster.

Let’s be honest about how we got here: there was never an imminent threat to the U.S. Now we’re stuck in it, negotiating from a weakened position.

This kind of thing will ruin a Cultist's day.

[Whack9]

Whack9

Wheels coming off.

Even Faux Noise has joined the mocking chorus:

TRUMP'S BIG BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE

Jessica Tarlov
(Co-host @thefive, Co-host Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway, defender of Democrats (when it makes sense) ...)

The ceasefire was a complete fiction. While the White House announced one, missiles were still flying across Israel, Iran, and Lebanon. Reality doesn’t match the headline.

The White House was forced to backtrack today because the proposed “10-point deal” from Iran was a disaster that would let them enrich uranium, fund proxies like Hezbollah, maintain leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, and get sanctions relief. Even top allies like Mark Levin and Larry Kudlow are calling it a disaster.

Let’s be honest about how we got here: there was never an imminent threat to the U.S. Now we’re stuck in it, negotiating from a weakened position.

This kind of thing will ruin a Cultist's day.

Art of the deal

I still cannot grasp how anyone can look at the actions of this administration and firmly believe they're in any way competent. All of the news I'm reading states Iran is in complete control of the strait. Wasn't the free flow of transit one of the main conditions of the "ceasefire"?

One of the core tenets of the US Navy has been maintaining the freedom of navigation of the seas.

https://www.cpf.navy.mil/Newsroom/News/ ... h-china-s/

https://policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/D ... 02015).pdf

As stated in the U.S. Oceans Policy (1983), the United States "will
exercise and assert its rights, freedoms, and uses of the sea on a worldwide
basis in a manner that is consistent with the balance of interests" reflected in
the Law of the Sea Convention. Some coastal states in the world have asserted
maritime claims that the United States considers to be excessive-- that is, such
claims are inconsistent with the international law of the sea and impinge upon
the rights, freedoms, and uses of the sea and airspace guaranteed to all states
under that body of international law. The United States, however, "will not ...
acquiesce in unilateral acts of other states designed to restrict the rights and
freedom of the international community

...

The U.S. Department of Defense's FON Program is comprehensive in
scope. The Program encompasses all of the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses
of the sea and airspace available to all nations under international law. The
Program is actively implemented against excessive maritime claims by coastal
nations in every region of the world, based upon the Department's global
interest in mobility and access. The Program is principle-based, in that it is
administered with regard to the excessive nature of maritime claims, rather
than the identity of the coastal nations asserting those claims. As a result,
U.S. forces challenge excessive claims asserted not only by potential
adversaries and competitors, but also by allies, partners, and other nations.
The Program depends upon the employment of U.S. forces from each branch of
the Military Services, including the U.S. Coast Guard. The Program includes
both FON operations (i.e., operations that have the primary purpose of
challenging excessive maritime claims) and other FON-related activities (i.e.,
operations that have some other primary purpose, but have a secondary effect
of challenging excessive claims), in order to gain efficiencies in a fiscally-
constrained environment.

The US appears weak. This conflict has the potential to be one of those events that rips to shreds the remaining facade of global authority the United States has had over the last eighty years. These types of events have occurred throughout history. The US isn't immune.

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Art of the deal

I still cannot grasp how anyone can look at the actions of this administration and firmly believe they're in any way competent.

Incompetents are not qualified to judge competence.

All of the news I'm reading states Iran is in complete control of the strait. Wasn't the free flow of transit one of the main conditions of the "ceasefire"?

One of the core tenets of the US Navy has been maintaining the freedom of navigation of the seas.

Taiwan Strait next?

The US appears weak. This conflict has the potential to be one of those events that rips to shreds the remaining facade of global authority the United States has had over the last eighty years. These types of events have occurred throughout history. The US isn't immune.

Thanks, MAGA.

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Where will the raccoon eyed juvenile minded moron and pathological liar focus next? Canada or Greenland again? Or Cuba? I'm gonna pick Cuba.

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Where will the raccoon eyed juvenile minded moron and pathological liar focus next? Canada or Greenland again? Or Cuba? I'm gonna pick Cuba.

With 3 aircraft carriers in the Middle East he might have to pick something more manageable, like Burlington, VT.

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Why hasn't Iran given Donald Trump another invented peace prize? They could end this war today with all of their demands met.

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https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2042244770207334533

More:

Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit "was unprepared" to defend itself
CBS News

... The members CBS News spoke to disputed the description of events from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who described the drone as a "squirter" — in that it squirted through the defenses of a fortified unit inside Kuwait.

"Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood," one of the injured soldiers told CBS News. "I want people to know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position."

... "And it's something like what you see in the movies. Your ears are ringing. Everything's fuzzy. Your vision is blurry. You're dizzy. There's dust and smoke everywhere."

Dazed, the service member surveyed a grisly scene: "Head wounds, heavy bleeding, lots of perforated eardrums, and then just shrapnel all over, so folks are bleeding from their abdomen, bleeding from arms, bleeding from legs."

A video shows smoke billowing from the building, fires smoldering. The blast killed six — the deadliest attack on U.S. troops since 2021 — and injured more than 20 others.

It was a direct hit.



... Still, the soldiers told CBS News, they had questions about why they remained well within range of Iran's missiles and drones. One soldier said they saw intelligence showing the post was on a list of potential Iranian targets.

"We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe area that was a known target," the soldier said. "I don't think there was a good reason ever articulated."

He said they were protected by little more than a thin layer of vertical standing blast barricades that did not provide cover from above.

"From a bunker standpoint, that's about as weak as one gets," he said.

Asked to describe the degree of fortification, he responded: "I mean, I would put it in the none category. From a drone defense capability … none." ...

MAGA lies about EVERYTHING.

[neoplacebo]

Where will the raccoon eyed juvenile minded moron and pathological liar focus next? Canada or Greenland again? Or Cuba? I'm gonna pick Cuba.

With 3 aircraft carriers in the Middle East he might have to pick something more manageable, like Burlington, VT.

3 carriers could save a hell of a lot of Afrikaners from genocide. I'll have to put South Arfica on my list of trump lunacy. And Somalia. He hates Somalia. Calls it a shithole. I often wonder if he realized that his mouth often looks like a shithole? Or that it's so appropriate that it does since just about everything out of his mouth is bullshit. All living former presidents have told me this.

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Where will the raccoon eyed juvenile minded moron and pathological liar focus next? Canada or Greenland again? Or Cuba? I'm gonna pick Cuba.

With 3 aircraft carriers in the Middle East he might have to pick something more manageable, like Burlington, VT.

3 carriers could save a hell of a lot of Afrikaners from genocide. I'll have to put South Arfica on my list of trump lunacy. And Somalia. He hates Somalia. Calls it a shithole. I often wonder if he realized that his mouth often looks like a shithole? Or that it's so appropriate that it does since just about everything out of his mouth is bullshit. All living former presidents have told me this.

Then it must be true.

Somalia is closest to the Red Sea and Mediterranean and everyone knows that Dozy Don is all about conserving energy.

[neoplacebo]

Where will the raccoon eyed juvenile minded moron and pathological liar focus next? Canada or Greenland again? Or Cuba? I'm gonna pick Cuba.

With 3 aircraft carriers in the Middle East he might have to pick something more manageable, like Burlington, VT.

3 carriers could save a hell of a lot of Afrikaners from genocide. I'll have to put South Arfica on my list of trump lunacy. And Somalia. He hates Somalia. Calls it a shithole. I often wonder if he realized that his mouth often looks like a shithole? Or that it's so appropriate that it does since just about everything out of his mouth is bullshit. All living former presidents have told me this.

Then it must be true.

Somalia is closest to the Red Sea and Mediterranean and everyone knows that Dozy Don is all about conserving energy.

Yeah, he's all about conserving energy, especially by conserving for China the advantages and advancements in alternate energy. trump is rabid about conserving all "windmills" (wind turbines) for China. He also has an acute allergy to solar power, but his windmill condition is terminal.

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Useless idiot, even dumber than Bush.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to president Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused. The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is President Trump[/quote]

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https://x.com/cpscott16/status/2042444175174680824

Chad Scott
(Fmr Army Officer & NATO Exercise Planner. Combat vet. Foreign Policy. Econ. Dual masters- Maryland/Hopkins....)

... In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt.

In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops.

So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.

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Seems like a pretty big card, it's hogtied DonOld.

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Great metaphor.

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Peace through strength.