Ed Israel/US Attacks Iran /Yet Another Country/Iran

[Andy_Ross]

Trump: If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously

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[Andy_Ross]

Trump: The countries of the world that do receive oil through the hormuz straight must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They can do it easily

Link

 

[Andy_Ross]

Graham: You either do a deal or you get out of the business you were in or we're going to blow your stuff up that will allow you to function as a nation. That's your choice.

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[Lukraak_Sisser]

Remember when the US was going to help the Iranian people in their attempt to throw off the regime?

I guess if you are dead you no longer are under the regime.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump: "You know, China gets 90% of its oil from the Strait of Hormuz. They should be policing their own strait. We're getting ready to get out of there."

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Policing? Are you inviting China to arrest you for starting a shooting war in 'their' strait?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump: We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.

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You don't bomb a country's regime back to the stone age. You either kill them or you don't. If you bomb the country back to the stone age that's collective punishment on its oppressed population and sounds very much like a war crime.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump: If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously

Link

Yep. War criminal it is.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump: The countries of the world that do receive oil through the hormuz straight must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They can do it easily

Link

How? They can't realistically sink your navy.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Graham: You either do a deal or you get out of the business you were in or we're going to blow your stuff up that will allow you to function as a nation. That's your choice.

Link

Holding a gun to their oppressed people's heads. Yeah, that'll work. And you definitely won't deserve to hang like those other ◊◊◊◊◊ at Nuremberg.

 

[Andy_Ross]

In Asia morning trade, the price of oil spiked and stocks fell in response to US President Donald Trump's speech, which failed to reassure global markets that the war was any closer to ending and that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would return to normal.

As soon as Trump finished speaking, the price of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, jumped 5% to $106 a barrel. Stock markets in Asia also began to slide

Iran war latest: Oil prices climb after Trump says US will hit Iran 'extremely hard' in national address

In response, Iran's military warns of "broader" attacks, after Trump again urged allies to "build up some delayed courage" to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Remember when the US was going to help the Iranian people in their attempt to throw off the regime?

I guess if you are dead you no longer are under the regime.

Pax Americana

 

[Andy_Ross]

Remember when the US was going to help the Iranian people in their attempt to throw off the regime?

I guess if you are dead you no longer are under the regime.

They betrayed Donald by not rising up and overthrowing the regime so they are enemies now.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
Back to the Stone Age.

 

[The Atheist]

The words coming out of Trump's mouth bear no relation to reality and are only uttered to enable market manipulation by his sycophants.

 

[jimbob]

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
Back to the Stone Age.

Has he no appreciation of history?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
Back to the Stone Age.

He's just pining for a time he'd fit in.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Has he no appreciation of history?

Hegseth is a one-trick pony whose all-consuming interest is posturing like Mussolini on TV, delivering lines he thinks make him sound tough.
Seizing opportunities to do that is literally as close to a strategy as the present Secretary of Killing will ever have.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

None of these fake alpha men would last 5 minutes in the real world

 

[dirtywick]

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

theintercept.com

claims that the pentagon is undercounting casualties in iran excursion

In 2024, during the Biden administration, the Pentagon provided The Intercept with detailed chronologies of attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East that listed the specific outpost that was attacked, the type of strike, and whether — or how many — casualties resulted, along with an aggregate count of attacks by country.

The Trump administration’s numbers, by comparison, lack detail and clarity. The current CENTCOM casualty figures do not appear to include more than 200 sailors treated for smoke inhalation or otherwise injured due to a fire that raged aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford before it limped off to Souda Bay, Greece, for repairs. CENTCOM did not reply to close to a dozen requests for clarification on the casualty count and related information sent this week.

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As the U.S. has relentlessly bombed Iran, that country has responded with attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East using ballistic missiles and drones. CENTCOM refuses to even offer a simple count of U.S. bases that have been attacked during the war. “We have nothing for you,” a spokesperson told The Intercept. An analysis by The Intercept, however, finds that bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates have been targeted.

 

[Ziggurat]

Why would the Pentagon do damage assessment for the Iranians during conflict? That would be foolish.