re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

Everyone needs to take a deep breath and look at the big picture. For 40+ years Iran has been begging for a beating. All the while, they’ve been getting stronger bolder and more dangerous. In the last decades they’ve gotten close to building a nuke. Cyber attacks and limited precision strikes have been adequate to delay progress. But, and this is a big but, the Iranians are not as stupid as they look. They have been tunneling miles into granite to continue their nuclear ambitions out of reach of conventional weapons.

Up until they become a nuclear power, the only real cards they hold is the ability to hold hostage a vital international shipping lane. They have zero authority to close or mine or in any way threaten shipping in international waters.

President Trump has correctly determined that a temporary closure of the international shipping lane by the terrorist state of Iran is a small price to keep nukes out of terrorists weapon arsenal.

We have unfortunately lost 13 brave men and women. Iran has lost 100s of top leaders and their entire navy and Air Force and thousands of missile launchers and munitions. Billions of IRGC monies have been seized.

President Trump is showing tremendous strength in allowing Iranian leaders ample time to make a wise decision.

It’s been 38 days of military action followed by 6-7 weeks of blockade and economic pressure. It could take longer to get a bathroom and kitchen remodel completed.

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Their only compass is TDS. It guides them to whatever information will reinforce orange man bad.

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where did all these fools come from? It's wild how many infected people are in this thread.

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Trump only has so many (limited) options before congress must approve.

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Lay out a plan to the congressional leaders and go get a vote. There are enough democrats who can be pushed to vote for an actual plan.

It is comical how people on here offer definitive strategy assessments with about 0.1% of the information. Trump and his advisors are smart people. They have way more information than is being made public, and they are no doubt using AI and war game tools that are beyond our imagination.

This does not mean that they are always right or that things will end well. But it does mean that definitive statements about strategy or outcome on this message board (overly positive or overly negative) are a big waste of time. You could change one little key fact that none of us know and the whole picture could be completely different.

Well said. TDS is a helluva disease and it's running wild here in this thread.

Hmmmm... interesting news!

So what has happened to cause the IRGC to attack the Kurds in the North of Iran?

Was this a preemptive strike?
Is there military activity against the IRGC that we haven't heard yet?
Does the IRGC feel invincible now that the USA hasn't shown the willingness to strike Iran save a tit for tat thing here and there?

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Trump and his advisors are smart people.

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So smart that they believed this conflict would be over in a couple of weeks when everyone else in the world knew better. So smart they didn't have a plan for when Iran inevitably shut down the Strait of Hormuz. So smart that they literally have no idea what to do next. So very smart. The smartest.

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So what has happened to cause the IRGC to attack the Kurds in the North of Iran?

Was this a preemptive strike?

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They have been targeting the Iraqi Kurd groups who are anti PMU and anti IRGC at random times during the cease fire. They attacked the main headquarters/base of the Iraqi Kurds a couple of weeks ago, not long after Esmail Ghaani met with pro Iran forces and and then left.