Iran-Israeli Conflict Thread

OSINT account on munitions and locations. Map was created about 20 hours ago, and the mapper doesn't distinguish between a 80 kg ordnance Shahed drone getting blasted out of the sky and a 2000lbs JDAM turning an IRGC base into a pile of rubble. Nevertheless it's good work and as can be seen especially the UAE and Kuwait are targeted heavily.


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LaAguilaNegra said:
GCC states are not military powerhouses, and retaliation would be symbolic and centered around air strikes. GCC states instead project power through hydrocarbon leverage, money politics and foreign mercenaries. The Saudis are by far the largest Gulf military on paper but their Yemen debacle showed how weak and vulnerable their army actually is. GCC participation in the air campaign would definitely give the US/Israel a legitimacy boost though.

A proper analogy as to how GCC states view militaries is as to how they perceive football. It's a status symbol and they want immediate success. So instead of setting up proper infrastructure, esprit de corps and military institutions they buy all this hyper-expensive equipment without much deeper understanding, exactly like how Saudi clubs are currently poaching top tier footballers for exorbitant salaries. Yet the Saudi League hasn't improved much and at the end of the contract the players walk out of 100 million USD richer and nothing has really changed.

As said, a GCC retaliation would mean a legitimacy boost for especially Trump. The US likes to build grand coalitions for its military adventures. Ergo a GCC entry for Trump would mean that he can sell his Team's assessment as correct, even though in terms of actual relevance the Gulfies contribution will be low.
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Good point plus GCC militaries live a pampered lifestyle in these oil rich places. If I have to choose between a sanctioned country of soldiers vs soldiers with no grit and US backing, I'm picking the Persians.
 
lol. i wrote about this a couple weeks ago. im mobile dont have time to proper quote





Back in his Florida House Speaker days, Rubio had this whole ceremony with his "mentor" Jeb Bush where Jeb presented him with a golden sword to invoke a mystical warrior they called "Chang."

Whenever Jeb faced a big moment, he'd announce he was going to "UNLEASH CHANG." The sword was supposed to be this sacred object passed from master to disciple.

Rubio never had any clue what it actually meant. To this day, he'll tell you "Chang" is just some mythical conservative warrior Jeb invented. When asked directly, he literally said, "I think it's a Jeb Bush creation." Didn't question it. Didn't look into it. Just accepted the prop and moved on.

Except the sword actually had "Chiang" (with an I) engraved — as in Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT leader the US backed in China. "Unleash Chiang" was a 1950s rallying cry from politicians that advocated to allocate tax payer money to arm CKS to retake China from Mao.

George H.W. Bush, Jeb's dad, used to mock that whole mindset by yelling "unleash Chiang" before his tennis serves. It was a family joke — self-deprecating, pointed, aware of its own history.

Jeb either missed the joke entirely or figured Rubio wouldn't get it anyway. So he rebranded Chiang as "Chang," a generic mystical warrior, and handed it off like some sort of conservative Excalibur.

And Rubio? He's been carrying it around ever since, completely unaware that the sword he's waving passed through three generations of Bushes before landing in his hands — its meaning sanded down and history unappreciated. A nice illustration of US Foreign policy in China & Asia for the past century and what will come to be with him at the helm of the State Dept. =)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-relationship-114308

Jeb and Rubio Agree: Chiang Kai-Shek Was an Imaginary Mystical Warrior​

When Marco Rubio became Florida’s Speaker of the House in 2005, Governor Jeb Bush welcomed him by bestowing upon him the sword of “Chang,” who Bush described as “a mythical conservative warrior.” It’s odd how mythology develops: Bush was almost certainly, if unwittingly, talking about Chiang...
www.gawkerarchives.com

Post in thread 'The Trump-Vance Administration Thread'
https://christisking.cc/threads/the-trump-vance-administration-thread.1066/post-128076
 
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