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  • Newman
    Behind the Iron Curtain
    • Friday, November 1, 2013
    • 25814
    #1

    Kharg

    Looks like the US is preparing to take Kharg.

    What to know about Kharg Island, the Iranian oil site struck by U.S.(Imtiaz Tyab, CBS News)


    The Kharg Island raid signals Trump’s plan to defund the mullahs - American Thinker​ (Texas Hughes)
    American and Israeli air attacks have largely eliminated Iran’s offensive military capabilities. Air defense radars and missile launchers are greatly reduced. Their longer-range missile launchers are 90+% destroyed. Fewer suicide drones now launch daily.

    Iran’s weapons storage facilities are constantly bombed. Their few remaining launchers are being destroyed as they play hide-and-seek, trying to keep firing. Their defense industrial base is being methodically bombed out of existence, meaning Iran can’t quickly rebuild its defenses.

    The battlefield is well prepared for the next phase of operations.

    The 82nd Airborne Division, our Army’s designated quick response force, cancelled a large field exercise a few days ago. At least one Marine Expeditionary ship, a small aircraft carrier with F-35s, helicopters, and a battalion of Marines, is moving from Japan to the war area, under escort by a missile-launching cruiser and a Destroyer.

    And an almost dead giveaway, Trump announced last night that Kharg Island military sites were completely destroyed
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    It is reasonable to think that the next phase of the war will unfold in a few weeks or so. It is also reasonable to think that a limited boots-on-the-ground operation is planned.

    The Kharg Island gambit is dirt simple. It is the refinery location and shipping hub for 90% of Iran’s petroleum exports. It generates a huge volume of cash, giving Iran hopes of controlling the Middle East and achieving great-power status.

    So, we capture Kharg. We keep it under our control with a 100-year lease. We control Iran’s oil sales. All transactions go through banks we control. We take our cut of the sales for “managing” and “protecting” Iran’s property, and we draw on this income until the full cost of the war is repaid to the USA and Israel.
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    • scott
      Go-to Guru
      • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
      • 15799
      #2
      If only.

      I'm sure our defense lobby is going to figure out a way to fuck this up.
      "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
      -John Locke

      "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
      -Newman

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        • Newman
          Behind the Iron Curtain
          • Friday, November 1, 2013
          • 25814
          #3
          Originally posted by scott View Post
          If only.

          I'm sure our defense lobby is going to figure out a way to fuck this up.
          By comparison to any major military operation in history, this assault of Iran is breathtaking. Compare the loss of our fighters, for example, to the loss in any previous initial phase, such as, say, to Iraqi Freedom.

          Corresponding in unprecedented scale is our impatience. The critics have had to ramp up their high dudgeon at warp speed.

          If I have it right, Israel (genocidal Jews) pull the strings, Trump is clueless, improvising and bullying his way into world conflagration, all in an effort to hide Epstein embarrassment or something, and, of course, we're losing. Is it a quagmire yet?

          American & European mainstream media are so feckless, a wildly overused but timely word, one gets something resembling truth from unlikely sources, e.g. Al Jazeera, The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera (Muhanad Saloom).
          Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.

          The chorus is loud and, in some respects, understandable. War is ugly, and this one has imposed real costs on millions of people across the Middle East, including the city I live in.
          But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.

          When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.

          . . . [W]hat I see in the current campaign is a recognisable military operation proceeding through identifiable phases against an adversary whose capacity to project power is collapsing in real time.
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          • "I'm a hell of a lot smarter than most of you guys." — Joe Biden, at Jesse Jackson's funeral, March 2026.​
          • "That's all I do in my life. I make deals. I'm really good at it." — President Donald Trump, Oct. 13, 2025.
          • “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” — David Horowitz.
          • "We [Democrats] are all willing to work with anyone who is serious about doing the work of censoring the American people, and advancing progress."​ — Ayanna Pressley, explaining progressives.
          • ​​"Florida is where Woke goes to die." — Ron DeSantis.
          • "No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence." — Nancy Pelosi, explaining Lawfare.
          • “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”​— Ben Franklin, who got it right.
          • "The way I see it, there's always, c'mon, there's always money. It's there." — Elizabeth Warren, explaining socialism.
          • "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.... We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." — Saikat Chakrabarti, then AOC's Chief of Staff.
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