Iran-Israeli Conflict Thread

The Gulf states need to choose their path. If they all stand up to the US, it will be very hard for Trump to continue.

It's lose-lose for many of those gulf nations. If the UAE supports the US, it will continue to be a target of Iranian drone and missile strikes which will gradually wreck its economy as expats and influences leave.

However, if they stand up to Trump and are a subsequently hit with sanctions or tariffs, it would be devastating too. Though I do beluga that Russians would quickly step in and fill the void.
 
It's lose-lose for many of those gulf nations.

However, if they stand up to Trump and are a subsequently hit with sanctions or tariffs, it would be devastating too.
Standing up to Trump will be a lot less painful that getting wrecked by Iran. Trump is not going to tariff ME oil. It would be an insane move that would get him roasted alive at home.
 
NYT: The Iran War regime-change plan was a failure before it even started. MOSSAD got it completely wrong. Instead of a revolution, they got a war with no exit.





HuffPost: Among US troops, doubts are spreading about Trump's Iran strategy. Fears of a disaster, and unwillingness to die for Israel.

 
WaPo: US officials now say that opening the Strait of Hormuz is the number one 'achievable' objective, contradicting Trump's claims that the US does not need it open.





WSJ investigation: At least seven Iranian prisons have been struck by the US, some of them housing US prisoners.

 
The Economist: Trump has four options, all bad.
Negotiations - complicated by mistrust and maximalist demands.
End the conflict - Uranium and energy risks left unresolved.
Continued military action - no guarantee of success.
Escalation - could require a ground operation and trigger strikes on regional energy infrastructure.


They don't mention the obvious fifth option: Meet the Iranian demands - End the conflict, withdraw militarily from the Gulf States, accept Iran's offer to dilute the enrichment level of stored uranium, and pay Iran compensation for the war. It would solve all the issues, but be too painful for egos of Trump and the radicals surrounding him.

 
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The only thing incoherent is your failure to acknowledge the undeniable. That the US and Israel has targeted civilian infrastructure first, a school, and an Iranian desalinization plant, and now Iran has stated terms that if the US or Israel decides to escalate further, this is what will happen.
If Iran has to do this to deter the aggressor nation to make the war politically unfeasible in the aggressor countries and for those that support them, then it's completely understandable on their end. What else would you expect the underdog nation on the defensive to do? Roll over and die?

To illustrate, the responsibility for morality and restraint is for those who have the upper hand. As an adult, you can choose to treat a small child with decency or you can abuse it, but it is very difficult for the child to impose things on you unless the adult left open a vulnerability. You for one believe the US is much stronger, this puts the responsibility of decency on their end, which IMHO the US hasn't been doing as shown by the fact that due to US/Israel middling in the Middle East. Christians have lost protections they once had, and their population is a fragment of what it once was.
Remember that you're talking to a deluded mercenary.
 



 
Hegseth reduced the Pentagon targeting staff by 90%, and handed it over to A.I. because human staff did meet his desired 'lethality'. It was a deeply amoral move with predictable consequences.

The strike was also a double-tap, which shows they knew what they were doing. Bomb the kids, have all the fathers on the base come rushing over to frantically try to dig them out, and then 40 minutes later, wipe out the fathers with the second strike. It was 100% a premeditated mass-murder.
The original propaganda was that the US didn't bomb the kids school. The goal-post-shifted propaganda that the US blew up the school in ignorance isn't much better. Israel has no problem blowing up hospitals full of families just to get at a few Hamas members. I doubt that the MIC in the US would lose sleep doing just the same, might makes right and all that. But even if the second talking point is true, why is the US bombing targets when they don't even know what the targets are? In either case, the MIC comes out looking like the bloodthirsty war-profiteers that they are.
 
Not going to be popular, but I'm against Nice War. Get it done or don't do it. Preferably don't do it. But telegraphing your moves, giving the enemy a notice to prepare before an attack, not using your biggest and best weapons for swift victory (nukes), and waging war with kid gloves are all part of globohomo faggotry.

True, I'm armchair quarterbacking here as I have no intention of going to my death over (((someone else's))) problems (I have no issue with Iran until their troops roll into my hometown), but civilian infrastructure is fair game.

When you are fighting for your life there are no "rules."

"All's fair in love and war."
When Ghengis Khan conquered Iraq back in the day he destroyed their ancient water systems to kill as many people as possible and to get the job done fast, to date that water system hasn't been repaired.

I personally think that Iran announcing this in advance to to try and get those nations to side with them and to abandon their US allies, in this case attacking their water plants isn't going to neutralize their enemy, it can also be a "if we going down we gonna takr everyone down with us" kind of attitude.
 
The bond market crisis is allegedly behind Trump's U-turn on Iranian power plant strikes. The US cannot afford the 10Y Yield at 4.50%+.





Axios's Barak MOSSAD Ravid was the first to push the 'talks' narrative.

 
The bond market crisis is allegedly behind Trump's U-turn on Iranian power plant strikes. The US cannot afford the 10Y Yield at 4.50%+.


Bonds. Trump cares about his donors. But unless the US military moving is cancelled. This is just a pause. Watch what they do. Not what they say.



Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that entities holding US Treasury bonds could be considered legitimate targets alongside military bases.

“US treasury bonds are soaked in Iranians' blood,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X on Sunday.
“Purchase them, and you purchase a strike on your HQ and assets,” he added.
He said financial entities that finance the US military budget would be treated as legitimate targets.
 
Standing up to Trump will be a lot less painful that getting wrecked by Iran. Trump is not going to tariff ME oil. It would be an insane move that would get him roasted alive at home.

The problem is that the Gulf States has already chosen a side and evidently have already collaborated with Israel through providing logistics for the bombing runs and playing hosts to US military.

They thought they could be like Thailand during the Vietnam War, who hosted US Bombers at a safe distance - collecting $ while facilitating death & destruction but now that Iran has shown themselves to not be anything like Vietnam or Venezula, the Gulf States are sweating and regretting participating in this bet.

This drama with them choosing sides is just kabuki theater for the normies.

The only way out for the Gulf States is if Iran loses or they themselves get regime changed.

 
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The problem is that the Gulf State has already chosen a side and evidently have already collaborated with Israel through providing logistics for the bombing runs and playing hosts to US military.

They can reverse that at any point. It is the only way out. Iran will accept a change of position and forgive the earlier actions. Why would Iran not accept something that they are actively calling for the Gulf States to do? It would make no sense to reject it, if the Gulf states comply with their demands.
 
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