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Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by fonenyc
Don't let arrogance foul you.
Learn from the past, don't copy it.
Tell me this, how can US pull anything against Iran? They even tried supporting terrorist groups, they spend billions of dollars against Iran officially.
They have used every trick in the book, except bombardment and full invasion, which is not good strategy when thinking about the scenario we are speaking about.
The scenario is that US is that two nations are fighting proxy wars against US in two countries neighboring Iran.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
reply to post by oozyism
No but the US could easily gain the moral authority by luring them into a provocation
Originally posted by oozyism
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
reply to post by oozyism
No but the US could easily gain the moral authority by luring them into a provocation
Pakistan is provoking the US by directly supporting the Afghan insurgency, what can the US do? Nothing, except kill innocent Pakistani civilians using drones.
The US is stuck, you have to remember that, whether the US have the moral authority or not doesn't mean they will win.
Winning has an objective, what will the objective of the war, or bombardment be? Regime change, or attack on nuclear sites?
Both will have 10X negative consequences on the US empire. US will loose Iraq, Afghanistan, UAE, probably Japan and South Korea.
Do you think China will sit back and do nothing?
China has already made a fuss about the Islands, that means if the US attacks Iran, China will use the Islands as an excuse to attack Japan and push US back to where it came from.
North Korea will go for South Korea with the help of China. Russia will go for Europe, blablabla..
Read the thread in my signature, "Asia getting ready for US collapse", has all the sources, and I have connected the dots for you.
Originally posted by roguetechie
Bingo .. .
Us poor americans served our purpose and the kleptocracy has raped our mortgaged and leveraged to the hilt future... we're running on inertia and prayer currently and whatever is coming next will kick our military out from under us too.
Those that run things are smart enough to know that if you're going to screw a country like ours you F***ing well better make sure we can't come back around at you... Those that run the game are nothing if not intelligent and they know leaving us with an intact and forward deployed military and a no win situation economically would be dangerous to say the least if someone tried to call in debts that would cripple us.
Smart bombs cost a million each right? Yeah that's about right ... Ok good so if we drop 1000 of them on beijing that's a billion of the 900 billion we owe china paid off right? Sounds good to me ... cool ... man are they gonna be pissed when they find out how much we paid for those Rods from god we'll be under a hundred billion by the end of the day ... (evil laughs and the sound of Air force brass high fiving)
That is what would happen if you leave us in financially ruined but with an intact military...
Which is why I am calling a hail mary dunkirk play on behalf of the overlord set.
And if you look around you see said global chin check forming as we speak...
I personally feel there will not be much to celebrate this Thanksgiving...
The US is building up naval, air force and marine strength around Iranian shores as Barack Obama's aide Dennis Ross reiterates his determination to keep the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear arms. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Hizballah and Hamas are also deep in military preparations, fearing a war eruption in weeks or months - as DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals in its coming issue out Friday with hitherto unpublished disclosures. Don't miss this exclusive survey of a region in the grip of a mounting war scare.
The US is building up naval, air force and marine strength around Iranian shores as Barack Obama's aide Dennis Ross reiterates his determination to keep the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear arms. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Hizballah and Hamas are also deep in military preparations, fearing a war eruption in weeks or months - as DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals in its coming issue out Friday with hitherto unpublished disclosures. Don't miss this exclusive survey of a region in the grip of a mounting war scare.
If I was the war planner I would have dragged a couple of our old naval ships awaiting to become marine reefs and get them functional enough to move under their own power via remote control. Then drive them around Iran's coast and let them launch their volleys of missiles at them.