Why was Army Chief of Staff, Randy George removed?

 Drunkard Pete Hegseth removed the Army Chief of Staff and several other generals in his latest drunken stupor. This guy that Clown Trump picked from a bar after having a drink with him now stands high and mighty against the American general corp, taking them down one by one like downing whisky. No need to think, no need to care or fear of any consequences. Drunkard only fears when the alcohol effect left him.

Hegseth has effectively destroyed the lives and careers of professional soldiers after a few drinks. These men and women dedicated a life time to their profession and in protecting America, but could simply be flushed down the toilet bowl by a drunk without doing anything wrong. Quite pathetic really. Maybe this is Clown Trump and drunkard Hegseth telling the generals who is the boss.

What could be the real reason for this drastic and reckless move against the generals when America is in the midst of a war with Iran and facing defeat? I can only volunteer a possible explanation of how it all started. Clown and drunkard, without any war experience, without knowing how a war is fought, just want to attack Iran bomb Iran to the stone age and kill all the Iranians...ordered by Netanyahu.  In their shallow thinking, the American military might is so powerful that it only takes 4 or 5 days to bomb the Iranians into surrendering to every demand of Clown Trump. When this is found to be unworkable, and when Iran hit back just as hard, the idea of a simple victory vanished and Clown Trump and drunkard Hegseth faces turned red. They could only think of doubling down, send boots on the ground to invade Iran.

Here comes the crunch. The generals could go along with aerial bombarbments with drones and Tomahawk missiles without risking the lives of their men. Putting boots on the ground is an entirely different proposition. In the first place, the attacking force needs a 3 to 1 ratio advantage in men and weapons to think of a possible victory. Clown Trump and drunkard Hegseth cannot understand this principle. To these two simpletons in war, just send in the boys and girls to do the job, it is so easy. 10,000 men, 50,000 or a bit more will do the job. If not, send in more. At most the American boys and girls just come home in body bags. The Clown and drunkard did not know what is responsibility and accountability. And if American boys and girls were to die, blame it on the generals. The Clown and drunkard are just two queers talking nonsense in the White House and did not have to be responsible for anything, losing war, getting American boys and girls killed to them were just games they are playing with.

The generals very likely told the Clown and drunkard that to attack Iran and to have any hope of winning, they will need at least a million men and women on the ground, and also with the protection of air power. America cannot put even 500,000 boots on the ground, and no air cover. This has been proven when all American bases in the Middle East have been turned to rubble. There is no way for America to win a war against Iran with boots on the ground. The generals stood firm, no way. It cannot be done.

The Clown and drunkard cannot take no as an answer from the generals. Both think they are smarter than the daft generals. The only thing left to do is to remove them immediately and replace them with generals that are more amicable or meek and would send American boys and girls to be killed in Iran. 

If this theory is the reason behind the sacking of the generals, it will be confirmed by the next move from the Clown and drunkard, send the 50,000 boots into Iran and praying that God and Jesus would help them to win this simplistic war game.  Put down your bets if the Clown and drunkard will be ordering boots on the ground, and buy the stocks of body bag companies. There will be big orders for more body bags. There will definitely be silly generals that will go along with the Clown and the drunkard. A handful of generals will be promoted just to do the job.

Who should be running out of missiles? Who is bleeding more?

 At the start of this conflict, what were the stockpiles of missiles available to the three combatants, ie America, Israel and Iran? For the Americans, only those available in the Middle East were to be counted. Though no official numbers were available, very likely Iran will have much more than the Americans and Israelis as they have been preparing for this moment for years. On the other hand, the American and Israeli terrorists have been fighting non stop wars and expending their weapons and missiles and could not have more missiles than the Iranians.

Conservatively, lets assumed, just assuming for ease of comparison, that Iran has the same number of missiles as the Americans and Israelis combined at the start of this conflict. The general understanding is that for every missile heading to Israel and American assets, the defenders need to fire two to three missiles to ensure a successful hit. This means an equation of 1:2 or 1:3 consumption rate. For every missile Iran threw at the Americans and Israelis, they need to throw up 2 to 3 missiles to intercept the incoming missiles. Who is expending more missiles is obvious.

Added to this problem, the Iranian production rate is reported to be much higher than the Americans and Israelis. Another factor favouring Iran, China, Russia and North Korea are also sending new supplies of missiles to Iran. Who is going to be depleted of their missile supplies needs no guessing.

The other equation is the cost of the missiles. Everyone is shaking his head at the cost of American and Israeli missiles used to hit the Iranian missiles and also drones. It is an insane joke. Just like the UK pilot celebrating his success in bringing down two drones with two AIM missiles. He was very happy and proud of this mission without knowing the math. He did not know that it was throwing money at each other, and who is throwing away more.

Trump and Netanyahu are panicking with their missiles running out. Trump even signalling that he has to call off this war, but warned of using nukes to replace the low missile stocks. In simple financial terms, Iran is bleeding the Americans and Israelis dry. The cost of manufacturing on both sides is beyond comparison, a military joke. Throwing a few millions against a few thousand dollar drones or slightly more expensive missiles is the pride of the Americans and Israelis.

The Americans and Israelis cannot afford this kind of warfare.

Asean states should just send warships to the Strait of Hormuz to please the Americans

KUALA LUMPUR: More Asian countries dependent on energy imports could enter talks with Iran on allowing their ships safe passage in the crucial Strait of Hormuz if the Middle East conflict drags on, analysts say.

But these countries would also have to weigh securing their energy supplies against the optics of accepting Tehran's politicisation of the strait, possibly paying a toll fee and angering the United States, the analysts told CNA.

Iran said it has allowed several countries' ships to cross the Strait of Hormuz since its forces effectively slowed traffic through the narrow sea lane to a trickle during the war, which began in late February.

The list comprises largely Asian states and includes China, India, Pakistan, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia.

The above is quoted from an article by Aqil Haziq Mahmud in the CNA. The tone or intent of the article suggests that Asean countries are not happy with Iran's terms and also afraid of angering the United States. If this is true, then it is likely that some Asean states are considering sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz to protect their tankers, to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Given Asean's powerful military strength, there is nothing to fear about offending the Iranians. It is safer than offending the American terrorists.

Now, which Asean state would be the first to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz voluntarily, to protect its own interests, or be coerced by the American terrorists to do so?  Given the AngloSaxon mentality of Asean leaders, all wanting to kiss the ass of Trump, do not be surprised that Asean will just do it to please the Americans.

What do you think? Can rule out Thailand and Malaysia since they are already given free passage through the Strait.

Trump keeps farting, Iran keeps firing

Trump is still showboating about using force to keep the Straits of Hormuz opened, on the heels of the talk by the Europeans about getting into the act of using their own naval force to wrestle control of the Straits of Hormuz from Iran. How are they going to do that? It will be an exercise in futility.

There were also talk about investing US$200 billion to cut a channel across Oman to avoid the Straits of Hormuz. How about the other problem to be faced by ships sailing within the Persian Gulf that Iran can always target?

Iran's stranglehold control is not just the Straits of Hormuz. It is the whole Persian Gulf per se. The whole coastline of Iran faces the Persian Gulf, where underground bunkers hosting drones, missiles and speedboats are hiding. Furthermore, we have not factor in the possibility of Iran mining the Persian Gulf, not carpet mining, but with sporadic placement of mines. Taking out just one tanker is going to send jitters to shipowners and marine insurers.

Iran is refusing to hold talks in Pakistan. This is probably the fear that Pakistan is unable to provide the security for the safety of its negotiators, just like what happened with Hamas leaders holding talks in Qatar.

Suffice to say, amidst all the boasting and propaganda, the war is not going to end soon. Trump has been switching it on and off while Iran has stuck to its guns that no negotiating is ongoing. Iran has taken leaf from the Chinese by making no comments, just letting Trump fart about done deals and making a fool of himself.


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Mission accomplished. Trump - Middle East destabilised. Iran - American bases destroyed

Trump is, as sure as the sun rises from the East, going to proclaim that the USA has achieved its mission in attacking Iran. We knew this was to be the expected mantra he will be chanting, even with a bloodied nose and a massively bruised ego.

What has the USA achieved after more than a month of bombing? Only killing the Iranian Supreme Leader and stoking the Iranian people into a more patriotic stance. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now a martyr, whose death has sparked and rallied massive support for the country to fight the invaders. Was a regime change in the works? More likely a regime change going to happen in the USA and Israel.

The USA has lost more than its reputation fighting this war. All the highly expensive radar installations, some costing billions, have been destroyed. These are the systems providing the eyes for the Patriot and THAAD interceptors with early warning of Iran's incoming drones and missiles. Their destruction crippled the ability of the interceptors to provide cover, with incoming hypersonic drones and missiles denying ample time for those interceptors to respond within minutes or even seconds available. Which is why Iran has been able to target vital infrastructures with ease after those radars were taken out.

USA did a Pearl Harbor surprise on Iran, and Iran returned the favor and gave the USA a Pearl Harbor surprise by taking out its radar systems in the Middle East at the start of the war, something not in script. In fact, Trump was reported to have complained that 'it was not fair' that Iran is responding so aggressively against the USA's surprise attack.

That radar attack at the start of the war practically destroyed the reputation of the USA's ability to provide protection of the Gulf states, despite all the military bases present in the region. Now the Gulf countries knew that depending on the USA's protection umbrella is just a myth already exposed. This has raised the realization that further attempts to antagonize Iran will not bring peace to the Persian Gulf and the oil trade disruption, which probably prevented the Gulf states from retaliating against Iran, despite all the damage.

Apart from the ability of Iran to gain relatively major advantage over such a short time, the war also dispelled the 20th century WW2 mindset of the USA that aircraft carriers still dictate the direction of the war. Early movement of its two aircraft carriers to the Middle East was supposed to force Iran to cower in fear without a fight and gave its enriched Uranium to the USA on a platter.

But such movements of USA aircraft carriers had in fact given Iran the signal to be ready. That USA has more or less still been harboring an obsolete believe in fighting a war of the 21st century using power projection of aircraft carriers, but which turned out to be a delusional mindset, rendered impotent when faced with hypersonic drones and missiles that has truly dictate the direction of the war. In time to come, aircraft carriers can no longer be counted upon to project military power for launching carpet bombing. In any case, carpet bombing has been proven to garner just initial advantages before boots on the ground. The real dictate of victory or defeat comes after that when strategy and ingenuity really matter more. This has already been proven in Vietnam conclusively. And is being proven in Iran as well.

So, Trump can gloat all he wants about his 'mission accomplished' moment to fool the 'dull of mind' hillbillies. The reality cannot be erased by espousing propaganda alone.


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