Lee B

So... Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and got the US to stop bombing them by agreeing to open it. Iran did not own or control the Strait of Hormuz... but now they do.

hmmmm...

“Iran wanted us to stop the war and they met that objective by using the strait of Hormuz as leverage. They’re going to lie and delay and that’s their goal. I think their strategy is to reopen the strait knowing we don’t have the stomach to go back in when they don’t fulfill their terms of the deal. I would’ve preferred keeping the pressure up and finishing the job.”
- General Jack Keane

and I expect they're loaded with something like C4 (I don't know shite about explosives... note that, FBI)... the explosives are not weighing them down, are not something big when you see the dones and seem to be able to damage tanks etc.

The Iran war thread is now at 621 pages, it has passed this thread up...

the original thread should've just been moved here...

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Vance, the VP of the United States, goes to a foreign country to actively campaign for someone and while doing so cries about foreign election interference from the EU for that very same election.

Lolol

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Also uses the podium there to address Europe and tell them they're having an energy crisis because they stopped buying Russian Natural Gas and Oil...

This is what also keeps me up some nights... how long until some school shooter type...

Green Day was playing some big outdoor show and a drone came flying in towards the stage and their security yanked them off the stage and sped them through the complex. "For a dumb drone!?!" was the reaction from a lot of people, but... it wasn't supposed to be there, so...

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Totalitarian government whether Saddam or China or Russia all suffer from the same deficiency. Opposing viewpoints or realism in operations. Because of fear no one wants to push bad news or reality up the chain. China found water not fuel in their rocket tanks. Russia and Saddam found their armies were paper tigers. Our democracy is in many ways messed up but we know how our military really is and how it functions.

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Agreed. We can get a little over-confident, though...

But yes, the Dictator's Dilemma... deliver bad or unwanted news and exit through the window, so nobody delivers bad or unwanted news.

I would argue that the present occupant of the Oval Office has created the same thing for himself, but that's going to get pushback here...

About that China incident, though. The problem is that we heard about it... which, if it was true, they would make sure that we did not. So why did they allow us to hear about it? Partially because part of China's nuclear arsenal was fake. Silos built without the ability to open, because there are no missiles in them, and never were... just a fake thing to be seen by our satellites to make them seem more powerful than they were back at that point in time. Admit that? Well, that would make them seem weaker... but also, it would lead to a re-evaluation of their actual stockpile. But this way? "We have them, they're screwed up at the moment." So when there's talk of reducing stockpiles in treaties... "we will not repair our damaged missiles, so that is our reduction concession." It allows them to reduce missiles they never had. It also gave Xi an excuse to have some military officers he didn't trust or like put to death, You can look all of that up...

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2. Russia pushes Ukraine to the point where the personnel issues make large gains in short periods of time possible, or Ukraine reaches a point where they are worried about the future of the country in a population sense and just gives up the "contested" territories.

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This has been addressed by Ukraine already in the form of drone swarms. They don't need a lot of troops to kill a lot of invading Russians.

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The religious leadership welcome this. NK's is not religious, Iran's is of this type of religion

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I'm glad to see you giving credit to the most Atheist government on earth...

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Does NK have a death wish? NO


It depends on whose doing the dying…..

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They do... the ants in the population mean nothing to Kim.

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When are we attacking North Korea?


We aren't because China doesn't want allied boots on the border with China.

NK remains in existence solely as a way to keep South Korean, American, and Western troops off their border. They offer no other value to anyone, even the Chinese, who can't stand them.

But nobody is invading or bombing them because it would set off the Chinese. As a result, you get the spoiled neice/nephew behavior that has come to define NK's foreign policy.

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Right...

no matter how many missiles they test fire at Japan... so missile range and nukes aren't our main motivation in messing with countries...

or, as stated today when Trump brought them up... "he likes Trump."

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Lee's logic comes from his political science college classes, likely from gay leftist profs

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Show us on the doll where the gay leftist profs touched you