Trump is again boasting about decapitating Iran if it does not go to the negotiating table. How many times have Trump gone through that. Such talk is becoming hubris with Iran just ignoring those threats. The only effect is the movement of the stock market and oil prices, nothing else.
From bombing Iran back to the stone age, to hitting it hard, now to decapitating it seems like the USA is losing steam. I hope invasion is the next step, and gets the USA entangled in Vietnam version 2, all over again. Oh yes, short of ammunition is actually the reason it must keep delaying the attack and an invasion of Iran seems totally outrageous. More than that is the fear of more widespread retaliation by Tehran against USA assets in the Middle East.
Read between the lines about the USA spending another US$3 billion to secure more Patriot and THAAD missile parts. Will China do anything about its rare earth magnets, essential for missiles, still being supplied to those entities helping the USA? Does that indicate desperation? Zelenskyy is begging for more defensive missiles and Israel as well. What about replenishing USA weapons stockpile exhausted just over the last five months of the war against Iran.
How many Patriot and THAAD missiles can the USA make in a year? At the start of the Iran War the USA even had to move THAAD missiles from South Korea to the Middle East to replace those destroyed by Iran, although it denied the move. Expansion of facilities to expand missile production is not something done within months. It takes years to build up the infrastructures. Get the picture?
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If Trump had the ammunition and is really loaded, do we think he will be dilly-dallying in his approach to Iran? Trump would have done more in his attempt to wipe out Iran much earlier instead of getting stuck in a quagmire. Now, all he can do is farting and trying to scare the Iranians. The irony is that Iran is hardly petrified.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, he is aware that Iran may already have the ultimate deterrence. The good part is that the USA has no means to know, only from speculation by outside sources. The same speculation that Iran will collapse by assassinating its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was not to be. It was in fact a miscalculation that resulted in having the Iranians becoming more patriotic and determined. A regime change attempt is becoming a mirage.
Trump is now unable to extricate his position regarding Iran. A withdrawal is a victory for Iran. Not withdrawing is going to be an untenable situation for Trump as well. The battleground is the front yard of the Iranians. They can wait for any length of time, just like the Soviet Union decimating Hitler with exhaustion in supplies and moral decay. The longer the wait, the worse it becomes for USA boys and girls baking in the heat of their steel plated warships. Supplies have to come to them via a long way off. Even shitting on board their warships while waiting is a problem that could clog up the sewage system on board. Not a joke but a reality.
On the other hand, Iran is still manufacturing missiles deep underground. They know that the war is not over yet and are preparing for all eventualities.
Not to worry. With a war President leading the USA, what can go wrong? And with a Secretary of War carrying out the plan, who can defeat the USA? Just get your champagne ready.
ReplyDeleteThe USA is now threatening to punish any country that buys oil from Russia. That must be read as a move targeting China above all else. The USA is still trying desperately to break up the good relations between Russia and China. I do not think China will cut off Russian oil whatever happens. The ties with Putin are too important just to crumple to the USA whatever the threat.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, China is going all out to wean itself from being overly dependent on fossil fuel. It does take time to change, but it is good that things are moving forward instead of just waiting for the oil trap to be used to cripple China, including naval blockades. The USA realized that the war on Iran has only a limited effect on China's industrial base and needed to cut off Russian oil supplied to China, if at all possible. Many have been saying that the war against Iran is a proxy war conducted against China, which I tend to agree.
The USA is fearful over the rise of China for years and is using all kinds of economic coercion against everyone to comply with its agenda to cripple China. Let us hope the world sees the real intent of the USA, destroying everyone's economy just to bring down China.