friendlyobservation

Did you pay attention to his foreign policy at all in his first term? He wasn't exactly a savant there either and kinda just kicked the bucket down the road best he could.

There's absolutely no way to solve this problem unless you completely bomb their infrastructure into the ground(which might not even solve it), ground invade which is not happening, or fold to their demands which is also not happening.

How's he getting out of this when you have too many splinter groups within their government vying for power in a massive vacuum that he created? When one side agrees the other doesn't comply with it. This will never end now. He has absolutely no plan and he's likely just trying to kick the bucket as far down the road as he can. He has completely crippled the world economy due to this mess there right now and it's going to continue.

What other options does he have? Let Israel do what they want? Weaponize other groups willing to overthrow and take control of this regime? Because ends so well all the time. The second he decided to flatline their military pretty much said you had to go all in or not at all because this the result. Iran knows US isn't going to put US boots on the ground so he just gave them the greatest leverage he could. He probably even made them realize how much power they have over the strait.

They'll keep sending fishing boats into the strait and cheap drones to make the US drop a 50 million $ missile to sink one. Want a sortie run? Operational costs are through the roof. And this is why the US can't effectively keep the strait closed off as well from their attacks. You have to occupy land to do it at this point which they can't occupy Iran as it is. At best they'd have to strategically occupy and that will create their own unique challenges. This is a pretty epic fumble job by Trump. Republicans are finished in midterms thanks to him.

I know one major contribution among many to their issues is birthrate issues. Their government has programs to have children with their women because of how old their population is. They actually want foreigners to come to have kids but you have to prove you're financially secure. It's a major problem because they can't reinforce their workforce with younger workers enough.

Believe it or not US is actually headed on a similar trajectory if things don't change on birthrates. I'm not sure we're thriving like you think we are. In fact, the USD will be worth nothing eventually if the debt ceiling continues to mount every new administration.

This lineup has way more power than this past season. I definitely can see them hitting 150 especially if Serna/Bide grow any in power. Serna is probably already at MLB power. The portal guys they brought in can swing too. Power is not going to be a problem for LSU.

One of the all time greats for LSU and always been a great ambassador to the program. Man living the dream. :geauxtigers:

LSU going to have some serious bat power next year.

I was there for this game. I can definitely remember games in the stadium being far more miserable from a weather/environmental standpoint but this game takes the cake simply due to the opponent. That was an absolutely miserable experience that's historically bad.

He'd lose a ton of money to sign with MLB if he came back to LSU. He loses all his leverage for 1 good paying NIL year? Nope. Curiel has a better shot to come back than Brown and even he's not very likely so that's your answer.

He was always undersized and a tweener with no true position. He never got past that so it wasn't hard to scheme around his athleticism. Doesn't matter if you can't shed blocks and you don't have the ability to cover like a DB so where are you at? Moving him inside was really dumb. Another BK special from Big Brain.

The year before Pavia had one of his worst games of the season against Baker's defense

Doubt it but I hope we're not rolling with what we have right now because we definitely need more arms outside the freshman coming in. We need RELIABLE arms out of the portal not potential like they have coming in with the freshman.

Yes, it doesn't take much understanding to know the US could wipe Iran's leaders out at any point as you just saw with the military capabilities. You really think Iran can stop US spying them? They never had the capability to stop a full scale run with our air force/navy.

Your previous leaders were not dumb enough to drop bombs on a regime like this because it creates more problems than it fixes as you're seeing now. A ground invasion is very realistic if you're forced to.

Logistically, it's much too large compared to somewhere like Iraq and they'd need to foot more soldiers than Iraq ever did. So, they'd probably have to hit key points and occupy certain areas to secure the Strait. No politician wants this.

If you have extremists who want blood and war because they're already barbarians how are you going to stop them from sowing economic chaos worldwide? You can blockade them off all you want with Navy that's not going to stop their objective which is to continue to make you suffer and the Strait is too small to properly secure it without occupying parts of Iran. They're not using battleships there because it makes them vulnerable to attacks and when you're rowing speed boats across the straight it doesn't make sense for the US to fire 50 million $ missiles to sink a speed boat. Which goes back to the point they're trying to make us expend resources on purpose because it costs millions to fire each time.

So do tell us how the US is going to stop these extremist factions within Iran right now who are already ignoring ceasefire agreements because you created a massive power vacuum in this country. They grossly miscalculated the potential loss here. Once midterms are over they're going to mass bomb them again.

How are you going to get around this? Create a new passage way through Oman/UAE/Qatar? The straight is too small for this to be realistic. Reroute oil elsewhere? How are you going to do that? You don't see the predicament this causes?