i heard they were sending more today, and apparently US is unlikely able to defend karage island , its a fools errand. also wasting anti-missiles missile defense to destroy cheap drones and iranian missiles, also taking away AA resources from israel.
never get involved in a land war in Asia
I'm sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
As you wish.
That's gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They've been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment...
This is not going to be a full scale invasion. For that they need way more soldiers. 5000 is enough to take some islands, run some raids on the coast or do some special ops bs. If they send more we maybe see something bigger.
Oh they might be intending to capture that strait to minesweep it and open it back up. Which will probably continuously cost lives of those holding it while boats get targeted by drones anyways.
Kharg is the most likely. 90% of Irans oil exports go through that island and the US has just bombed it hard, while the units currently moved are specialized in taking islands. Other then that in the Strait of Hormuz Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs are decent targets, as the UAE claims them and taking them would be useful to secure shipping a bit better.
If you wanted to secure the Strait somewhat Hormozgan province would have to be taken. With a population of nearly 2million, that is not going to happen with 5000 men. Maybe raids though.
Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.
And he must finish the announcement with "Now watch this drive".
As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.
That is the protocol.
If we can get Trump to say “Now watch this drive” then maybe things won’t be too bad…
Trump can only wish he were as slick as Bush
It's fucking grim how predictable all of this is.
And they are mugging us off as if we can't see exactly what this is.
It's Vietnam all over again.
afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.
Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;
it's government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;
there is no "South Iran";
and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;
unlike boomers and those older, young men haven't been drafted for 50 years;
oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;
but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.
both china and india gets free passage through the strait from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.
WRONG. Iran is desert, not jungle, dumbass.
(I hope it's clear I'm being silly at you. Because I am. Being silly at you.)
5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.
Damn, what a way to go.
I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred... But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That's going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it's going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.
Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.
It sounds like what you are saying is that this administration is going to get even more than 5000 marines killed.
More than 5000, yes. Marines? Not so sure.
did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.
all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a "reason to do it" and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.
Americans don't learn.
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