Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks.
get fucked, Gulf 'allies' lmao
Lot's of "missile debris damaged x vital thing that surely wasn't the original target of the missiles" going around these days.
the main parties in israeli politics over the past ten years are Likud, Religious Likud, Silicon Valley Likud, The Literal IDF, the Israeli Gavin Newsom Party, Inverse Atomwaffen, the Welfare Fraud and Draft Dodging Party, the Chickenhawk Welfare Fraud and Draft Dodging Party, and Labour (two MKs).
Hey UAE, I had to babysit your "special operations" forces in Afghanistan while they put mine at risk. Royalty in kit. Put up or shut up.
This is a third of E-3s deployed to the theater, a fourth of the currently mission capable ones, and 12.5% of our total fleet. One more strike like this and our in theater AWACS capability is gone.
A point I've made before re: Israel and US FP consensus of those who are blob adjacent but under 45 (that they're a genocidal apartheid state directly opposed to american democracy, regardless of what party is in power) is also the same basic view that cohort has on most of the GCC
"David Weber sci-fi character looks at the camera and expresses very strongly held opinions about the late 1900s American Democratic Party" is always an all-time classic
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Just when you thought he couldn’t be more insane…..
President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed.-WSJ
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission
Trump on Strait of Hormuz, appears WSJ report from last night was accurate:
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UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran. Kuwait and Bahrain are also backing the idea, according to a Gulf diplomat.
Gulf countries are privately urging Trump to continue the war until Iran is "decisively defeated", according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials. -AP
