USA Goes to War Against Iran
Time for a dedicated thread to the war.
How long will it last and what will be the probable outcome?
Speaking of exorbitant cost...
How much are the US spending to blow up a missile city's entrance, that gets rebuilt in 48 hours?
Teflon, I like you or at least think you are more redeemable than the rest of the libs. That twitter account is awful and you shouldn't take anything he says seriously.
Apparently the Iranians presented the President with a very nice gift today. It sounds like Iran is ready to bend the knee.
Lol, is this very nice gift opening the strait that was open before the war started? It isn't. The president is literally contemplating starting a legit war over a strait that was open.
Sort of undercuts the “insane death cult” narrative when you realize just how much mutually beneficial commerce was allowed to pass through the strait.
We literally could end up killing a half a million + Iranians to accomplish something that we had before this war - over an overblown threat of nuclear weapons that held an abysmal risk to actual Americans. But I guess we have an actual mission so let us all solidify and fight.
The window closed for war with Iran. Maybe 10 or 20 years ago they could have done it but cheap drones and accurate missiles are a great leveler and powerful countries are going to find it harder and harder to pick on the less powerful going forward.
Yeah, that stuff is a threat to a wooden fishing boat, not a 100K ton armored destroyer that can create a tungsten dome around itself or a tanker sitting next to it.
We're about a month away from escorting tankers through the Strait. Basically 2 weeks to remove Iran's major shoreline attack ability and another 2 for mine sweeping.
Yeah, that stuff is a threat to a wooden fishing boat, not a 100K ton armored destroyer that can create a tungsten dome around itself or a tanker sitting next to it.
We're about a month away from escorting tankers through the Strait. Basically 2 weeks to remove Iran's major shoreline attack ability and another 2 for mine sweeping.
Every prediction you and Kelhus have made about the war thus far has been incorrect whereas everything that I've said is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream narrative.
Every prediction you and Kelhus have made about the war thus far has been incorrect whereas everything that I've said is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream narrative.
Ill admit that I did laugh out loud when reading the last part. The crux is that the drones arent hitting San Francisco which should be part of the prerequisite for a war like this.
Ill admit that I did laugh out loud when reading the last part. The crux is that the drones arent hitting San Francisco which should be part of the prerequisite for a war like this.
I'm not sure I completely follow but sure-- it's assymetric warfare. Iran doesn't have the capability to attack the US mainland. That doesn't matter though and in another 10 years maybe less they'll likely have the sorts of ICBMs that can.
I'm not sure I completely follow but sure-- it's assymetric warfare. Iran doesn't have the capability to attack the US mainland. That doesn't matter though and in another 10 years maybe less they'll likely have the sorts of ICBMs that can.
My point is that you still need something a little more concrete of a risk than maybe in 10 years or less they may have something that can. It's their neighborhood, and they are using drones into w/e they can to defend themselves.
I also think the media is sensationalizing these drones a little for clicks - which I figured you'd at least question. There are like 50k troops stationed in range supposedly of these drones and we really don't have a whole hell of a lot of destruction or causalities against a weapon that the US knew about.
But maybe Iran is holding back and will start sending out swarms of drones if the US decides to push in - which I couldn't blame Iran for doing.
But maybe Iran is holding back and will start sending out swarms of drones if the US decides to push in - which I couldn't blame Iran for doing.
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I believe those were unveiled on Sept 11, 2001.
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Just make sure you cover your balls if you are around it when its on
I wonder if that uses radiation.
In two years, we will be going to war to defeat the Iranian Glowing Deathclaws that we created.
Maybe. I could be conflating your bootlicking musings with another bootlicker.
I'm sure you must have said that. My good friend LandOLakes would never in a million years make a false accusation.
True.
I think the idea of putting those 82nd Airborne troops in-theatre is to pose a potential threat to seize the Kharg Island oil terminal, for reasons of negotiation. But it’s Trump, so only the great prophet Houdafuq knows.
Now this guy definitely said no boots on the ground. I see he's changed his forecast to, "Well, maybe." We'll see what he says next week after some soldiers have died on the ground for President Bone Spurs.
I was saying earlier that I see this ending sooner rather than later, in that I didn't think anything like a full-scale ground invasion as with Iraq was in the cards. Still don't. But I always thought going after the uranium or Iran's underground missile cities, especially along the Strait, would require some boots on the ground. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that h
Well, this invasion has nothing to do with uranium or missile cities, so we can scratch that chit off the list.
Kind of funny that you think this will be the one time the US government doesn't have a long drawn out entanglement when sticking their nose in the Middle East.
You have the idealism of a 22-year-old.
stopping iran from funding its terror regime with oil sales? but realistically its the leverage to open the strait. The oil would still find a home iran would just get less money
Nothing says crushing an opponent in a war like lifting sanctions on the country you're obliterating.
stopping iran from funding its terror regime with oil sales? but realistically its the leverage to open the strait. The oil would still find a home iran would just get less money
lol what leverage? They stopped sanctions on Iranian oil. They're so beholden to market movement they've already shown their hand that Iranian oil is basically as important to the US as it is to Iran. Just numbskull level stuff here.
My point is that you still need something a little more concrete of a risk than maybe in 10 years or less they may have something that can. It's their neighborhood, and they are using drones into w/e they can to defend themselves.I also think the media is sensationalizing these drones a little for clicks - which I figured you'd at least question. There are like 50k troops sta
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/po...
NYT is reporting how troops are being forced to work out of hotels because their bases are destroyed.
"Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/po...
NYT is reporting how troops are being forced to work out of hotels because their bases are destroyed.
"Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable"
So NYT and DrudgeReport (2 journals with EXTREME anti-trump bias) are reliable sources of information when it confirms your biases?
I see.
We are 2-3 weeks into this.
You do realize that the US is the most insulated 1st world economy from all this chaos? The rest of the world (especially Iran) will suffer much worse than the US. The whole world is going to go through a recessions, but relatively the US is positioned to suffer the least. Trump is ****ing with the dollar right now due to all his tariff and trade war nonsense, but when the smoke clears the dollar will remain supreme.
Even when we lose, we win.
The IRGC on the other hand was a failed state before this mess started. It will be a 10X failed state whenever the intensity drops. The amount of terror and murder they will have to inflict on their own people to retain control will be massive. And still unlikely to be enough.
We are 2-3 weeks into this. You do realize that the US is the most insulated 1st world economy from all this chaos? The rest of the world (especially Iran) will suffer much worse than the US. The whole world is going to go through a recessions, but relatively the US is positioned to suffer the least. Trump is ****ing with the dollar right now due to all his tariff and trade
Yeah, I'm real proud. Let's bomb some more countries.
The IRGC has been reduced to nothing but a guerrilla force hiding in mountains, their brownshirt Basij are being hunted in the streets of Iran's major cities, the rial is worthless, they are increasingly becoming diplomatically isolated from everyone but China and Russia, they have been going through an extreme drought that was causing major dysfunction throughout the nation when they had a functional govt and the dry season is just starting; and you are claiming victory on their behalf.
This isn't the end. But it is the beginning of the end of the IRGC.
