I consider myself a progressive, a consistent one, not a conditional one, when it suits my ideology, of which I have none.
The mullahcracy that rules Iran is an abomination, and I am thrilled that Khameini, the slaughter of youg girls is dead, I only wish Israel got his second son as well.
As a progressive I find Islam to be abhorrent, it is triumphalist like Christianity, it is is intolerant of non believers, (however it allows room for Peoples of the Book, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians In Iran, if they accept 2nd class status, and until the 19th Century paid the jizzyah a poll tax.
Feminist, self invaliding females, queers, atheists, polytheists, not only unwelcome but at risk of lfe. None of them would last 24 hours in Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, except in special, desacralized enclaves.
With that off my chest, there is no way to defeat Iran, and no way without boots on the ground to affect a regime change, and Iran can and has closed all shipments through the Strait of Hormuz (SOH) to all but Chinese and Pakistan, and there is nothing we can do about it.
On the second day, Hegseth sank the Iran Navy, at anchor, but the Iranian Navy has always been just for show.
The real threat is the IRGCN, they have 33,000 fast boats that hold 15 men each, suicide drones, suicide swimmers and IRGC.
WWIII has already started. Iran has sent Missiles and drones against 18 countries, and in no way have they expended all of their missiles, rockets and drones.
They have been planning for this for decades, and have them stored away in caves.
Iraq is flat desert,Iran is mountainous.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,numbers about 150,000 and they are fanatic, but even more fanatic is the millions of Baiji, the Basij is a volunteer militia, fanatic Shia, it was the Basij that killed the protestors, 50,000 of them, not the IRGC and the Basij could be the guy selling coffee,or rugs in the bazaar, or leading a donkey cart through the streets.
During the Iraq Iran war, they used young boys as mine detectors, telling them that they would get a fast pass to paradise.
Christians actually fear death, Muslims wish to die a martyr, to die for Islam is to get a fast pass to paradise.
Maryrs' are celebrated not mourned. For an example. Hamad Ghazi, of Hamas said, before he was killed, "We are a nation of martyrs and will come back again and again"
Krasnov's BFF, Vladimir Putin, is providing target intelligence to Iran, and Trump's response, basically "so what"
As for who started it, Ha'aretz said that Bibi did, he had Israel track and target the Iranian leadership, and Trump joined in to take pressure of his other BFF, Bibi.
And this whole affair has been in the works since January, after Trump had his way with Maduro, the USS Gerald Ford hauled anchor in the Caribbean and Headed to the Mediterranean, the USS Abraham Lincoln was patrolling the South China and Philippine seas before being directed to the Persian Gulf in January.
If you want to see the action follow the carriers, this had been planned since January, actually even before that, it was set in motion in January.
“The Iran conflict is another mask-off moment. It shows not only how Trump exploits a fragmented civic culture by flooding the zone with propaganda, contradiction, and spectacle,” - Mad man theory perhaps?
From Wikipedia: The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response.[1]
And yeah I’m just throwing it on the wall to see if it’ll stick.
Here goes. I put my iron in the fire, FWIW.
I consider myself a progressive, a consistent one, not a conditional one, when it suits my ideology, of which I have none.
The mullahcracy that rules Iran is an abomination, and I am thrilled that Khameini, the slaughter of youg girls is dead, I only wish Israel got his second son as well.
As a progressive I find Islam to be abhorrent, it is triumphalist like Christianity, it is is intolerant of non believers, (however it allows room for Peoples of the Book, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians In Iran, if they accept 2nd class status, and until the 19th Century paid the jizzyah a poll tax.
Feminist, self invaliding females, queers, atheists, polytheists, not only unwelcome but at risk of lfe. None of them would last 24 hours in Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, except in special, desacralized enclaves.
With that off my chest, there is no way to defeat Iran, and no way without boots on the ground to affect a regime change, and Iran can and has closed all shipments through the Strait of Hormuz (SOH) to all but Chinese and Pakistan, and there is nothing we can do about it.
On the second day, Hegseth sank the Iran Navy, at anchor, but the Iranian Navy has always been just for show.
The real threat is the IRGCN, they have 33,000 fast boats that hold 15 men each, suicide drones, suicide swimmers and IRGC.
WWIII has already started. Iran has sent Missiles and drones against 18 countries, and in no way have they expended all of their missiles, rockets and drones.
They have been planning for this for decades, and have them stored away in caves.
Iraq is flat desert,Iran is mountainous.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,numbers about 150,000 and they are fanatic, but even more fanatic is the millions of Baiji, the Basij is a volunteer militia, fanatic Shia, it was the Basij that killed the protestors, 50,000 of them, not the IRGC and the Basij could be the guy selling coffee,or rugs in the bazaar, or leading a donkey cart through the streets.
During the Iraq Iran war, they used young boys as mine detectors, telling them that they would get a fast pass to paradise.
Christians actually fear death, Muslims wish to die a martyr, to die for Islam is to get a fast pass to paradise.
Maryrs' are celebrated not mourned. For an example. Hamad Ghazi, of Hamas said, before he was killed, "We are a nation of martyrs and will come back again and again"
Krasnov's BFF, Vladimir Putin, is providing target intelligence to Iran, and Trump's response, basically "so what"
As for who started it, Ha'aretz said that Bibi did, he had Israel track and target the Iranian leadership, and Trump joined in to take pressure of his other BFF, Bibi.
And this whole affair has been in the works since January, after Trump had his way with Maduro, the USS Gerald Ford hauled anchor in the Caribbean and Headed to the Mediterranean, the USS Abraham Lincoln was patrolling the South China and Philippine seas before being directed to the Persian Gulf in January.
If you want to see the action follow the carriers, this had been planned since January, actually even before that, it was set in motion in January.
“The Iran conflict is another mask-off moment. It shows not only how Trump exploits a fragmented civic culture by flooding the zone with propaganda, contradiction, and spectacle,” - Mad man theory perhaps?
From Wikipedia: The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response.[1]
And yeah I’m just throwing it on the wall to see if it’ll stick.