Undoubtedly, it indicates that the USA is realistically out of stock of weapons, otherwise would Trump give such an extension without reason. This is Trump's normal behavior without a doubt. TACO never disappoints.
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth boasted about negotiating with bombs with Iran. Trump threatens hitting Iran hard and lately asking for compensation from Iran for all the dead resulting from a war he himself started. But without the weapons to back up, all such boasting is just hot air.
Trump is not so gung-ho after all, hiding inside a food cart to switch planes over fear of assassination by Iran. It seems Airforce One took off without him, while the crew are deemed to be dispensable under Iranian missile threat against Airforce One, if it happens.
They are now spinning that incident as the idea of the security people around Trump and not hero Trump being afraid. Believe in the Nation of Liars if you think this is all a conspiracy theory.
In case I forget, there are news reporting that civil unrest has broken out on board the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln between crews with several dead. But this will of course be denied. The longer tour of duty is having a toll on the morale of the boys and girls and their families at home are also protesting.
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That food cart incident is revealing more about what is happening in the Trump administration. The revolving door policy is again playing its part. History is repeating itself.
ReplyDeleteWhen Trump escaped from Air Force One inside a food cart and took another plane, he tagged along two significant people, Pete Hegseth and Natalie Harp, his personal assistant (if I remember that name correctly). All the rest of his administration people, particularly Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Miller, we left on Airforce One as decoys. Think about that.
Many are speculating that Karoline Leavitt's resignation has more to do with this incident than her wishing to take care of her son and family. She was basically kicked out by Trump, who has found a new interest in Natalie Harp. Good riddance to a prolific liar for Trump. She is the personification of evil with her straight face lying.
The whole circus was a set up by Netanyahu giving fake information about the attempted assassination by Iran, in the same vein and modus operandi as Tony Blair feeding fake information to George W. Bush to start the Iraq War. USA intelligence has to depend on Israel feedback and unable to find out the veracity of such a threat themselves. The best intelligence apparatus in the whole world is making a fool of themselves.
The spinning will continue, of course, with the intelligence agency saying that the threat was real to cover their shortcomings.
Hamas and Israeli officials are now meeting in Egypt for talks. Let us hope what happened in Qatar is not going to be repeated. Egypt is not a trustworthy country to instill confidence in the safety of the Hamas officials.
That extension again shows that TACO is still playing the same game with Iran. It shows that the USA is realistically short of ammunition and weapons. The situation is just resembling a case of 'just in time' supplies mentality practiced by manufacturing and retail entities. And those 'just in time' weapons are immediately expended in every hit and run attack to fool the Iranians and the world that the USA is still loaded with weapons and ammunition. The Iranians are obviously not fooled. They are gaining in confidence.
ReplyDeleteSure, it could also mean that the USA is trying desperately to build up its weapons stockpile, exhausted over the first five months of the war and cannot afford a prolong attack on Iran. Using this modus operandi, how long can the USA hope to sustain itself in the Middle East? Far from home, cut off from logistical supplies obviously, with countries refraining from acting as supply bases for fear of Iranian retaliation, the reality is dire.
Iran has no such logistical inhibitions. The Perian Gulf is its backyard. Supplies are off the shelf. A civilization like Iran cannot fall in the face of carpet bombing alone, not to talk about sporadic bombing being carried out now and then. No country, intent on fighting back, has ever succumbed to carpet bombing and fell. The statistics are there. Vietnam was the de facto and perfect example. Not learning the lesson does not mean history is not going to repeat itself.
The world is changing. Geopolitics is no longer the dictate of the USA. Iran has shown the world how it fought this war despite its inferior naval and air capabilities. And China, Russia and North Korea are learning.