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We've just witnessed a debacle that rivals the Vietnam war. Thankfully it's over. It could have been much worse with a ground invasion.
The damage this has done to US relations with our Allies, especially Israel, is severe.
Now on to the spin moves to try and paint this as some kind of...
China/PRC has long passed Russia in many miltary areas, including missiles, warships & aircraft.
This is another great embarrassment for Putin, whether anyone is Russia acknowleges it.
Chinese Navy (PLAN)
64+ submarines
3 aircraft carriers
4 amphibious assault ships
8 amphibious transport...
And in the south, Ukraine is causing significant fuel shortages that impacts military and civilian operations.
Russia does not have the resources to defend all of that airspace. This is only going to get worse for them.
Tipped off Iran of what? People all over the world were tracking USAF flights back and forth via FlightRadar24. The same with movement of USN vessels. Everyone knew what was coming if it actually happened.
And our good old Russian friends were providing Iran targeting updates of what came and...
This is not true. Several ME countries (including the Saudis), were encouraging the US to continue the operation and take out the IRGC regime. This would relieve them of the Iranian headache. We were running low on interceptor missiles and had to invent some kind of pause to keep from getting...
It's going to have an effect on the big Crimea vacation season.
Russia has a lot of resources, but one has to wonder just how much destruction of transportation they can endure.
In the past 6 weeks, they've been taking a epic beating. With most of the logistics being cut off from the front...
Yesterday, Ukraine hit the Russian port of St. Pete with long range drone strikes. The damage was visible for miles and Russian air defense was ineffective.
Putin has a summit going on in St. Pete the next few days.
Meanwhile, gas rationing is happening in occupied Crimea beacause of consistent...
Where are you getting your information from? Why did we stop in the first place?
If I'm wrong and you are right, the we should have no problem "finishing the job" and negotiations can take a hike.
Just take a look at this:
Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite...
Maybe we had a chance to do something with this if we had done it right and planned it better. But we screwed it up, didn't estimate the cost and had to let up on them when we started running out of ammo.
We have given them time to reset/reload. They've already dug out most of their underground...
Who's fault is that? Did we even consult any of our allies before we decided to attack Iran? Did we give any of our allies a chance to warn us of the possible peril of the Strait of Hormuz being closed by the IRGC?
This is all on the US and Israel and horrible intel.
And there were people who...
That's a big assumption. A similar assumption was made in the decision to attack Iran in the first place & it was highly flawed with gross underestimations of how formidable Iran's counter strike capabilities were.
We could be in there for years fighting on their turf & our "allies" are...
In all fairness, Oct 7 started the dominoes. Israel was forced to respond. What happened after that is a nightmare & in hindsight, US should have stayed out of it.
And you are correct, the IDF is guilty of war crimes. Some of them are animals as well. 😳
The US obsession with the IRGC having nucs is not aging well.
It may be in our best interest to wash our hands of this & let sleeping dogs lay.
If Israel is so obsessed with this, then let them nuc Iran. What are their nucs deterring if the IRGC doesn't fear them?
The threat of having nucs is...
We may not be running out of bombs, but those Patriot, THAAD, & USN SM-3 interceptor missiles are almost depleted. Also include all those Patriot systems we sold to other countries, which are now vulnerable to supply issues.
We cannot defend the ME against consistent IRGC missile attacks. They...