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re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:45 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:45 pm to hawgfaninc
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Imagine being the U.S. Navy.
You hardly do anything kinetic on the sea for decades.
Then you do decades worth of killing in days.
That's gotta feel some kind of way.
Going to combat in the Infantry and getting to fight was so meaningful.
Sailors went 80 years without that.
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THIS
But the bigger lesson here: naval wars are decided quickly.
Sometimes in hours.
Japan knew this. That’s why they attacked Pearl Harbor. They just missed the carriers and fuel tanks.
That war was decided at Midway.
Doesn’t mean the war will be short. It took the combined forces years to mop up.
But control of the sea, which provides logistics, which is what wins wars, happens FAST.
THIS is why we need to pass the SHIPS Act NOW.
We won’t have months or years to build up a fleet if China starts war.
We need THE superior fleet in position on Day 1
And it truly needs to be superior because it’s very unlikely we will initiate the war so they will have first move advantage.
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Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:47 pm to hawgfaninc
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The US and China are now competing over control of chokepoints ahead of a conflict both sides increasingly see as inevitable.
China spent a decade building leverage over critical supply chain choke points essential to the US industrial base. Now the Gulf War has handed Washington leverage over the energy and supply chain arteries critical to China’s industrial base.
Hormuz matters far more to China than it does to the United States. But if the US Navy is now responsible for safely escorting ships and the DFC has a monopoly backstopping war risk insurance, then Washington becomes the gatekeeper of security at the world’s most important energy chokepoint.
The US can now decide which cargoes get the lowest friction access and which buyers get priority. Squeeze the US on rare earths and the US squeezes back on Hormuz.
China built a stranglehold over critical supply chains to deter the US. But the Gulf war may have given the US a reciprocal lever over China’s supply chain.
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Chokepoints are now more valuable than gold. The most valuable real estate on the planet.
Under Biden we lost the most important chokepoint in the world, the Suez Canal, to the Houthis.
We lost Gibraltar when woke politicians in the UK and Spain refused to allow US ships to fuel there.
We lost the Kerch Strait and Bosporus to Russia.
Trump is a real estate legend.
And he came in swinging.
Day one after the election: Argentina’s President invited to Mar-a-Lago. This is not an active chokepoint today but is THE most important backup chokepoint for the US Navy if the Panama Canal fails.
He offered asylum to South Africans to put diplomatic pressure on that government.
He appointed Lou Sola to chair @fmc_gov and investigate chokepoint control.
He dispatched diplomats when Norway refused to bunker Navy ships.
He pressured the UK hard to secure the English Channel from migrant boats.
He launched the largest carrier bombing offensive in naval history against the Houthis in Yemen and pirates in Somalia.
He cut the steady flow of cash from USAID and Minnesota to Somali warlords.
He demanded (and, yes, failed) to end the Russia-Ukraine war to reopen the Bosporus to US ships.
He sent @PeteHegseth and @SecRubio to secure the Navy’s most important chokepoint: Panama.
He dialed back rhetoric with China to keep goods flowing through the Taiwan Strait while improving security of the Luzon Strait.
He got an icebreaker deal signed to secure the Bering Strait.
He pushed back HARD on the UN @IMOHQ carbon tax that would have eliminated fueling options at chokepoints.
He closed the GIUK gap by playing hardball with Denmark over Greenland.
He put the Indonesian President front and center at Davos and, just last week, made a huge tariff deal to secure the Malacca Strait.
Now he’s laser-focused on the most important energy chokepoint in the world: the Strait of Hormuz.
In a world of geopolitical crisis, chokepoints are king and Trump is the only leader on earth treating them like the strategic real estate they are.
This post was edited on 3/5/26 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:49 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:53 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:54 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:55 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:59 pm to hawgfaninc
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We literally went right to the brink of a stroke. It was more terrifying than ever. Before, the windows would rattle or shatter and the ground would shake a little, but this time it felt like the ground was shaking from deep within, and the windows shook less.
Those bastards won't surrender. I dream of seeing each and every one of their corpses.
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I think this bomb's fuse is delayed. That's so it doesn't damage the surrounding buildings. First it splits the ground and goes inside, then it explodes. That's why everything starts shaking.
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Today they probably brought in a B-2. That's why some of the tremors felt different.
(The photo is of the Karaj sky)
Posted on 3/6/26 at 12:08 am to hawgfaninc
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The damn planes come in so leisurely, take a spin, and leave. These folks couldn't even chuck a pebble at them. Even the sound of those bullshite air defenses from the twelve-day war doesn't come anymore.
Then the bastards roll around in pickup trucks at night, spreading mourning sessions in the city for Khomeini to broadcast.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 12:11 am to hawgfaninc
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Let me tell you something, shove it deep into that empty skull of yours, you pathetic loser. Our dear Iran, because of half a century of domination by the government favored by dickheads like you, holds the same status in the world as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and wartime Japan of World War II. Half a century of dragging the region and the world through shite and making them put up with it. The only difference between today's Iran and those is you
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Even at the peak of Iran's weakness during the two world wars, which ended in the complete occupation of the country, foreign powers never so openly and unabashedly declared that they must have a say in choosing Iran's next leader. They interfered in Iran's affairs and, in the Second World War, played the main role in the removal of Reza Shah and the selection of Mohammad Reza Shah. But they never publicly announced that their approval must be sought in choosing Iran's leader.
Trump, however, wears no mask on his face. He says very bluntly and without mincing words that the Iranian government (whether the Islamic Republic or any other government) must be his puppet. Talk of neocolonialism or the post-colonial era has become meaningless as well. At least for Iran, the situation is in fact a return to the traditional and ruthless colonialism of the 19th century.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 12:12 am to hawgfaninc
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Posted on 3/6/26 at 2:03 am to Stat M Repairman
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Before launch toward Israel, the Air Force destroyed six Iranian ballistic missile launchers within hours overnight Wednesday, just minutes before they were set to fire.
Three advanced Iranian air defense systems were also destroyed as part of the ongoing effort under Operation “Roaring Lion.”
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Before launch toward Israel, the Air Force destroyed six Iranian ballistic missile launchers within hours overnight Wednesday, just minutes before they were set to fire.
Three advanced Iranian air defense systems were also destroyed as part of the ongoing effort under Operation “Roaring Lion.”
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 3/6/26 at 3:24 am to OU Guy
There is some suspicious shite surrounding the Kuwaiti shootdown of 3 US planes. Either they’re fricking retarded or it was intentional.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 5:45 am to hawgfaninc
US needs to sink it. Have skeleton crew sail to deep water. Remove crew from ship safely, and scuttle the vessel. Leave Iran with no war toys.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:00 am to hawgfaninc
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Arab media have reported the execution of IRGC special forces general Ismail Qaani for espionage on behalf of Mossad The Emirati portal The National, citing unconfirmed sources, claims that Qaani was accused of espionage and executed.
Huge if true. He seems to be the one thought of as providing a ton of intelligence on the big target precision strikes.
I was just wondering what happened to him as I hadn’t heard anything after a report said he was detained the other day.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:00 am to Victor R Franko
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:01 am to VolInBavaria
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