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Re: State Of The War

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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:10pjm5m$3ak3k$1@news.tcpreset.net: 

> Skeeter wrote:
> 
>>In article <XnsB41462F565DDELeegmailcom@69.80.101.12>, 
>>cleetis@gmail.com says...
>>> 
>>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>>> news:10pfme2$c3tk$1@pothead.dont-email.me: 
>>> 
>>> > On 2026-03-19, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>> >> On 3/18/26 18:55, Alan wrote:
>>> >>> On 2026-03-18 15:27, pothead wrote:
>>> >>>> On 2026-03-18, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>> >>>>> On 3/17/26 12:00, pothead wrote:
>>> >>>>>> On 2026-03-16, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>> Well, Trump keeps saying it's "almost over" and
>>> >>>>>>> how we've trashed the Iranian mil and production
>>> >>>>>>> apparatus.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> However ... NO news on finding all that uranium
>>> >>>>>>> or even hidden bomb factories. If they didn't
>>> >>>>>>> have a bomb before (I suspect they did) they
>>> >>>>>>> sure as hell do by now.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Also ... The Strait. Iran may be down to the
>>> >>>>>>> small stuff, but it can use that small stuff
>>> >>>>>>> to TERRORIZE ship crews (and insurers) - so
>>> >>>>>>> they ain't going anywhere soon. Iran has also
>>> >>>>>>> cleverly disguised remote-control speedboats
>>> >>>>>>> as little fishing boats. They are packed with
>>> >>>>>>> explosives and can do MAJOR damage to a ship.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> So ... NOT 'almost over'. SOME bits are over,
>>> >>>>>>> but not a few other important things.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Carpet-bomb the Iran side of the Strait ?
>>> >>>>>>> Might be necessary to get at missile launchers
>>> >>>>>>> and artillery.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Reminiscent of "2 weeks to flatten the curve".
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>     These sorts of things are NEVER as easy as they seem.
>>> >>>>>     Doesn't mean they shouldn't be done, don't need to be
>>> >>>>>     done - but don't expect 'easy' unless it's some tiny
>>> >>>>>     3rd-world shithole. "Regime change" in, say, Ivory
>>> >>>>>     Coast would be easy. Iran - NOT.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>     Iran is clearly run by FANATICS and has been since
>>> >>>>>     the 70s. They're entrenched - deep and wide - and
>>> >>>>>     hold all the firepower. A 'popular revolt' is
>>> >>>>>     possible - but even thus it's unclear whether it
>>> >>>>>     could prevail against the Imams and Revolutionary
>>> >>>>>     Guard. Bad situation.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>     Remember "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" ? THAT
>>> >>>>>     would have been the time. Nobody acted. The Shah
>>> >>>>>     was an asshole but the Islamists were 10 times
>>> >>>>>     worse. We all HOPED for a weak useless 9th-
>>> >>>>>     century mess - got a serious world power instead.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>     Anyway, we HAVE done a LOT of damage to their
>>> >>>>>     'military superiority'. This is good. However
>>> >>>>>     they can still leverage 'terrorism'.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>> Indeed.
>>> >>>> For 47 years the maniacs in Iran have been on a mission to
>>> >>>> destroy the US and
>>> >>>> any other state that does not follow Islam.
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> 47 years?
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> And how as that gone?
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> Has the US been destroyed? No?
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> How about "any other state"?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>    The NAZIs did not destroy any other nations
>>> >>    for quite awhile. Iran wasn't strong enough
>>> >>    to try doing that either, until now - well,
>>> >>    until last month anyway.
>>> >>
>>> >>    Iran had a HUGE number of good conventional
>>> >>    weapons. It had a big enough navy to control
>>> >>    the Persian gulf and beyond ... and float
>>> >>    off to other countries. It had a clear
>>> >>    ICBM program ... if you can orbit a sat you
>>> >>    can put a Big Bomb on the rocket instead.
>>> >>    It had large quantities of highy-enriched
>>> >>    uranium - SOME of which it actually admitted
>>> >>    to. FAIR chance they already have some nukes,
>>> >>    just no good way, yet, to deliver them. An
>>> >>    ultra/nuclear-armed country run by religious
>>> >>    fanatics is BAD BAD BAD for the rest of the
>>> >>    world ... which includes the USA.
>>> >>
>>> >>    But, hey, No Worries Mate ... right ???
>>> >>
>>> >>    Wave that little paper Neville ...
>>> >>
>>> >>    Fuckin' moron.
>>> >>
>>> >>    SAME mistakes made with world-conqueror types
>>> >>    again and again ...
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>> Trump in this term is the only POTUS who had the guts to try
>>> >>>> and shut them
>>> >>>> down.
>>> >>>> The others just kicked the can down the road with useless
>>> >>>> appeasement. 
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> However, unless the Iranian people continue to rise up and take
>>> >>>> control of their country, the maniacs will simply rebuild.
>>> >>>> It may take 10 years, 20 years, maybe more, but they *will*
>>> >>>> rebuild. The US can destroy the place physically and
>>> >>>> economically but they will fall if THEY ALONE attempt
>>> >>>> a regime change.
>>> >>>> That has to come from within.
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> So you admit the whole exercise was a failure before it even
>>> >>> started. 
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> Got it.
>>> >>
>>> >>    Ummmm ... remains to be SEEN whether this was
>>> >>    a 'success' or 'failure'. Probably it will be
>>> >>    something in-between. Better than before, but
>>> >>    not everything everyone could want.
>>> >>
>>> >>    That's reality.
>>> >>
>>> >>    Make do.
>>> >>
>>> >>    But DO Something. Otherwise it's Pearl Harbor
>>> >>    all over again, times 10,000
>>> >>
>>> >>    Politicians HATE to "do things" because then they
>>> >>    have to OWN it. Gigatons of hot air is their main
>>> >>    product ... probably a major cause of global
>>> >>    warming of late.
>>> >>
>>> > As a leftwing liberal, Alan will never get it.
>>> > He prefers to defend terrorists who, ironically, want him dead.
>>> > 
>>> > As for 47 years, thats in modern history and refers to
>>> > 1979 when ultra weak POTUS Carter fed the regime and started this
>>> > modern day mess.
>>> > 
>>> > In reality, the war from the maniacs POV has been going on for
>>> > centuries. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     What makes that America's problem?
>>
>>Well maybe threats to destroy America?
>>
> 
> Must also be time to attack China and North Korea over their threats
> too. Are we too weak or is Trump just afraid?



     Trump needs the Chinese to make all his name 
brand stuff (Americans aren't good enough for him) 
and he is still in love with the communist dictator 
in N Korea.




 

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