re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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My feed is full of Europeans raging about Hormuz and U.S. backing of Israel.

Some perspective:

Hormuz is NOT more strategically decisive for Europe than Suez and Suez was choked off on her husband, Jake Sullivan’s watch, a direct downstream effect of how he chose to arm Israel.

Every president in my lifetime has armed Israel. Anti-American and anti-Israel sentiment only peaked globally under Sullivan. Why?

Because he ran the worst of both worlds: maximum weapons, maximum restrictions.
— Bombs to Israel, but a veto on striking the source: Iran.
— Munitions by the pallet, but no logistical reach beyond Gaza. The deadly pier debacle that resulted in 61 American casualties.
— Massive arms sales, but zero commitment of American warfighters to assist in deploying the
— Green light on Gaza operations, red light on the factories and supply lines arming Hezbollah and the Houthis.
— Tolerance for Iranian resupply of Yemen while global shipping rerouted around Africa and hyper-charged European inflation.
— Green light for Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan shadow-fleet tankers through Suez. Red light for American and allied hulls.

Every president since LBJ armed Israel.

Most restricted use. Sullivan authorized use but denied the logistics to hit Iran—the equivalent of handing a man grenades to defend himself with his hands and feet shackled.

That’s why Gaza was destroyed instead of the Iranian munitions complex feeding the entire war.

Trump rewrote the rules of engagement: strike the source, not the civilian footprint. Hit the factories, cut the Iran–Yemen resupply line, restore freedom of navigation.

Sullivan closed Suez for over a year.

Trump closed Hormuz for weeks and is now carefully reopening both.

Debate whether Europe’s anger at America is justified. Blaming Trump for a chokepoint crisis Sullivan engineered is not analysis, it’s laundered media narrative.

But Trump gets the blame because the same academic-media complex that canonized Sullivan now runs cover for the bureaucrats inside the Pentagon working to undermine Trump and Hegseth from within.

And now forces inside the Pentagon who literally funded Sullivan and his wife Goodlander’s insane ideas is working on the inside to undermine Hegseth and Trump…. while MSM spends millions in courts demanding that their journalists be allowed to flood the Pentagon itself.

And the craziest part? They barely work to hide what they are doing

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Battlefield humiliation did more than embarrass the CCP. It exposed the rot in Beijing’s military model, badly set back its bid to become a major arms exporter, and upended its calculations on Taiwan.
by Rod D. Martin
April 10, 2026

China didn’t just lose face in Venezuela and Iran. It lost something much more important: credibility.

That matters because modern arms sales aren’t really about steel, explosives, radar signatures, or glossy brochures. They are about confidence. They are about prestige. They are about whether foreign governments believe your weapons will work when the shooting starts, your doctrine will hold when it is tested, and your regime knows what it is doing.

When those things fail in public, the damage doesn’t stay on the battlefield. It spreads into diplomacy, deterrence, alliance politics, and global arms exports.

The word is out: China won’t show up for its allies. And the weapons it sold them are junk.
The CCP has spent years trying to persuade the world that China is the coming military superpower, that its systems can hold America at bay, and that countries wanting something cheaper, simpler, and less politically encumbered than U.S. weapons should look East. Russia has long run a version of this play, making itself the world’s third-largest arms supplier, with weapons sales its second-largest export.

China has been trying to imitate that as it grows its own arms exports. Its pitch is the same: America is tired, decadent, expensive, and overcomplicated; we are rising, smart, capable, and ruthless enough to win.
But that pitch has been taking on water for some time. Ukraine already showed Russia’s much-vaunted strength to be a Potemkin village. China’s own vulnerabilities received unwelcome scrutiny during last year’s Operation Sindoor, when India’s clash with Pakistan tested Chinese systems in combat and punctured the aura Beijing has tried so hard to build. Venezuela and Iran have now made the problem impossible to ignore for both Russia and China. Chinese systems that were supposed to deter, blind, protect, or complicate American operations were annihilated in the opening minutes of combat.
The result was not merely embarrassment. It was a live demonstration. Bad weapons do not just lose wars. They lose customers, and allies.

Arms exports aren’t just a source of revenue. They’re a source of influence. They create dependencies, long-term relationships, maintenance pipelines, training arrangements, intelligence opportunities, and diplomatic leverage. A country that buys your fighters, missiles, or integrated air defense systems buys a relationship as well. The seller gains a foothold.

But they’ll only buy if they think your stuff is good.
The deeper question is why China’s weapons failed so spectacularly.

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NEW: US officials tell the WSJ that jets have recently arrived in the Middle East, and 1,500 to 2,000 troops from the Army's elite 82nd Airborne could arrive in the coming days, as well as thousands of sailors and Marines.

The USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group and 11th Marine Expeditionary are still on their way to the region, will likely take more than a week to arrive - WSJ

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Wall Street Journal report: The US military continues to pour forces into the Middle East - with fighter jets and attack aircraft recently arriving in the region and 1,500-2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division.

At the same time, thousands more Marines and sailors are making their way to the region, as is the aircraft carrier George Bush.

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