Winning a war depends not entirely on carpet bombing, as was evident in Vietnam where aerial power and sophisticated weapons did not win the war. Even boots on the ground failed to demoralize the Vietcong. Many analysts have said that carpet bombing provides the initial advantage, but as retaliation evolves and guerilla warfare starts, that advantage is soon lost. The USA did not even manage to gain any semblance of control in South Vietnam. The USA tried to hold on for 20 long years in Afghanistan yet had to flee with tails between its legs after such a long spell. Victory depends more on the tenacity and strategy of the people fighting against the invaders, not about shouting 'mission accomplished' slogans on board navy ships. If USA enemies lost the will to fight, like in Venezuela, that cannot be taken as the norm. The Iranians are willing to fight, having been imbued with this mentality for more than 40 years, as this has been an existential fight for their survival. The Iranians have no choice against someone trying to take away that choice for survival.
Any escalation of the war is bound to set the whole Middle East in flames and goodbye to the oil for years. This will affect every country, even the USA itself and could be more than just a recession and more like a global depression that most of us had never experienced before. Release of stockpiles of oil will do nothing to alleviate the situation, and moreover, how long can such release be sustained? One month? Two months? After that, what?
Countries that produce oil like Russia have their hands full providing for domestic demand and exporting to friendly countries. Who are the friendly countries by the way? And Russia probably will demand payments in Yuan. The USA is already freaking out when Venezuela and Iran are selling oil to China in Yuan and what it will do to the US$ hegemony. Go figure it out.
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It appears that the recent rescue mission of a shot down pilot was just an eyewash affair, with the main objective of placing boots on the ground near the Iranian nuclear facility in the hope of extracting the enriched Uranium.
For a start, how could a seriously injured pilot cover more than a hundred miles just to be located close to the nuclear facility, even having to cross high mountains. It does not sound credible.
The other clearly unexplained poser was why were two C130 huge transport planes needed just to extract one man. The two Blackhawk attack helicopters would have been enough to do the job. It is becoming suspiciously clear that those two C130 transport planes were ferrying a large number of special forces that intended to infiltrate Iran and were taken out by Iranian missiles, together with the two Blackhawk helicopters.
Trump must do better to convince the world about the planes being stuck in the mud and had to be destroyed. It has never crossed my mind that helicopters can be so easily get stuck in the mud.
Draft dodger Trump has little idea about military matters. There are so many glaring examples of his incompetency.
Trump boasted about ending the Ukraine War within 24 hours. How realistic was that? It is now well past 4 years and there is little sign of any peace deal. All the ultimatums, all the threats achieved practically nothing, both against Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump boasted about taking 4 to 5 days to accomplish his mission against Iran. How realistic has that turned out? He is now really stuck in the mud in Iran and cannot extricate himself. Not only that, but he has dragged the whole world into an economic mess that is escalating as the war drags on.
The only achievement Trump really did was lining his pockets, his family member's pockets and his cronies' pockets with his on and off rhetorics that sends the stock market into frenzies which they can capitalize. Making hay while the sun still shines must be his agenda, knowing that his days of doing that is coming to an end. Even the Iranians are saying this about market manipulation and how can I say otherwise. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is reality.
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