re: WSJ details what advisors told POTUS before initiating Iran War

Who cares? MIGA!!!

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I always wonder who the sources are for pieces like this.

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Father Time and Patience.

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JD

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VP JD Vance advised pursuing negotiations first as less costly and risky, with military action gaining more legitimacy if diplomacy failed.

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Failed a long time ago.

We're 2-3 days away from winning

Haha!! JD favored negotiations first as lest costly and risky and then military action if negotiations failed. Negotiating with Iran failed a long time ago. How do I know this? Because they never would sign a deal that either clamped down on the pursuing nukes before military action took place. Obama tried to go the opposite direction and they still cheated. Then military action is started. The US and Israel spent about a month blowing Iran to pieces. Trump agrees to a ceasefire. All they had to do is say is come get our enriched uranium. We are saying Uncle. Have they done that yet? No!! Instead they continue being belligerent and defiant shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz to this day. The United States is absolutely strangling this regime in Iran both militarily and economically. Yet they still will not say come get this uranium we have no use for it anymore we quit. We just want to survive. If they will not give that uranium up even now after all this then there was never any chance of the US negotiating with them and getting them to stop enriching uranium.

Trump had two choices before him. Either we started a military campaign to get this uranium and replace this regime or just let them have a nuclear weapon. Negotiating with these people to give up pursuing nukes was not a serious option on the table. The fact they still will not give it up even after going through all this pain proves it.

Seems like they were all correct with their analysis of the situation, ALL of them.

I don’t know about all that but they should have just recycled the Venezuela strategy.

Trump ignored Tulsi multiple times now. What is the point of having a director of national intelligence if you're not going to listen to them?

I saw another thread earlier that got nuked by the mods that talked about how many US bases and equipment have been destroyed. I thought this was common knowledge, however after seeing the responses I realized that our mainstream news must be not reporting on it and consider how boomer this board is that would explain the surprise. Chat gpt alone will tell you a lot and even if it will always make things as shiny as can be for the US. Here are some excerpts below...

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The best open-source satellite assessment I can find is the Washington Post's analysis of more than 100 satellite images. It identified at least 15 U.S. military bases/sites where Iranian strikes damaged at least 228 individual structures or pieces of military equipment. The damage included:

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aircraft and hangars
barracks and other buildings
fuel storage
Patriot and THAAD components
radar systems
satellite communications equipment
radomes
command-and-control infrastructure
other vehicles/equipment

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A later BBC assessment expanded the geographical picture to 20 U.S. military sites across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain and Oman.

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Reuters previously reported that Iranian drones had struck CIA facilities in the Gulf, and that U.S. intelligence analysts were investigating whether Russia had provided Iran with targeting assistance or drone technology. ?
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Reuters' July reporting established at least two CIA facilities that were attacked:
CIA station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A secret CIA facility in eastern Iraq
But Reuters also reported that other CIA facilities may have been attacked, without identifying them publicly.

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And today's reporting is even more striking: officials familiar with the damage told NBC that the Iranian campaign caused unprecedented damage to U.S. intelligence facilities and equipment, with intelligence sites across the region suffering serious losses. The reports characterize it as potentially the worst physical damage to U.S. intelligence infrastructure from a hostile attack since the CIA was created.

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If you didn't know about the above then you are drowning in a pool of state propaganda and you should broaden your horizons. Also remember that the US only has to report military losses. It will not report cia, cia affiliates, and likely private military contractor losses as well.

MSM has covered Bahrain, and the CIA base thing just came out in the last couple of days, but I don't about know much else. There are about a dozen military, intel, and academic guys who discuss these things on the podcast circuit.