re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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It's been "3 days from now" for a couple of weeks. And DJT is the only one I've seen talking about "explosions", although it could be somewhere else and it hasn't shown up here yet.

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I like to focus on the things Trump has done rather than what he's said. Things like regain control of the border and at least start the process of repairing the immigration damage done by Biden's admin. He's made a valiant effort to use the only tool at his disposal, thanks to a worthless Congress, to remediate our massive damaging trade deficits and ill-considered dependency on imports that are critical to this country's survival. He's addressed the massively oversized DC bureaucracy and made some headway in eliminating excess and corruption that's rampant in the states. And now he's inflicted severe damage on the rogue Iranian regime and, to a lesser extent, their Chinese benefactors; ran them out of Venezuela and in the process of running them out of multiple middle east states. And that regime may well be done when the effects of this finish playing out.

He's done those things in 15 months, and at every step of those last 15 months, Trump's critics have criticized and obstructed his efforts. They've used politicized judges, violent street protests, direct attacks on federal law enforcement, non-stop attacks from our corrupted, propagandist legacy media, and repeated attempts to assassinate the president and members of his administration. They've even pushed pro-Iranian propaganda while our troops are fighting against that repugnant regime. We have no idea what these people stand for, just what they oppose. And that's everything President Trump does or tries to do for the good of this country. So forgive me for not joining your lament that he missed the timing on Iran's oil well failures by 9 days.

The sidelined Iranian President, who has no real power, is trying to act like a dove and pretend he is outraged at the IRGC.

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With that many tankers, they have something really big planned. Real big.

But are all these tankers in the air to support the hundreds of aircraft patrolling for hours on end to guide ships out of the Strait? It takes hours for one of those massive ships to make the trek. I'd imagine they have to have pretty heavy air presence by every aircraft from helicopters to A10s to F35s to keep commercial ships covered from all angles as they transit, and another layer of those aircraft covering open water for anything incoming. Thus the 2 dozen tankers staying overhead constantly

Or are they gearing up for a massive fighter strike?

"Gas leaks"?

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You talking about KC-135s?

Hours from where exactly?

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Yes the air tankers. There's 23 in the air right now.

It's takes a large cargo ship or oil tanker up to 8 hours to transit the strait. To get them through safely we're having to cover them with dozens of aircraft flying for hours, obviously needing refueling.

It's a simple question - are all these tankers in the air to support that, or are we preparing for a massive strike. I know that no one here knows, it was more of a rhetorical question

Bandar Abbas contains a naval port for a lot of their speedboat activity. I wonder if this is the UAE or us putting a dent in their capabilities.