Posted on 12/29/2023 3:59:55 AM PST by Jim Noble
Houthi attacks on commercial shipping and US Navy vessels in the Red Sea threaten the global economy, endangering the vital Suez Canal trade route. As if 14 such attacks in the past month, and against Israel directly, were not enough, Iran has now joined the fray...
This marks the first time since October 7 that Washington has directly blamed Iran...
Just after Christmas, however, Iran committed the classic “Washington gaffe” – i.e., telling the truth accidentally – when the Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly described Hamas’s barbaric assault as “one of the acts of revenge for the assassination of General [Qassem] Soleimani by the US and the Zionists”. Hamas immediately denied the linkage, no more credibly than the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ subsequent effort to walk back its revealing “revenge” declaration...
The Biden administration, much of the media, and Iran’s propagandists will probably continue ignoring the reality of who is calling the shots in this conflict. But the evidence is growing inexorably that October 7 was intended to draw Jewish blood to implement Soleimani’s “ring of fire” strategy, with Iran pressing Israel on multiple fronts, directing operations via terrorists and state actors it has armed, trained, and financed...
It has been clear for years that overthrowing the mullahs, , is central to decreasing insecurity throughout the Middle East. Arab funding of terrorist actions against Israel is hard to find today, especially as full, open diplomatic relations with Jerusalem continue to expand. If Iran’s line of credit to the likes of Hamas, Hizbollah, the Houthis, and other barbarians disappears, their ability to survive except in remote Afghan encampments will palpably decrease...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes with Jill.
He will never do that...
Let London do it.
Why do you think that?
The US is destroying itself.
Iran vowed to "destroy" America. They won't do it directly. But through "proxies". At some point, we'll have to go after Iran.
Just like "we" had to go after Iraq?
Yes sir.
They respected Trump. Others were a joke. So it's time to kick @$$.
Whole heartedly agree. We no longer have stomach for conflict and I feel that because since Vietnam, allowing wars to just drag on instead of swift, deadly and destructive fashion, it makes people sympathetic and weak.
A lot of it has to do with the MIC. They don’t want to win wars. To them, it’s all about making money.
Drilling for oil would cost no lives and yet debilitate that regime more than a vast dump of Napalm. Hopefully, alll the while, Greg Thunberg would cry .
If the US just shut up and let Israel handle things , there would be no Iran. They need us only to curry favor from the UN; there is no country better motivated (and pretty darned well equipped) to handle shit than Israel. They never lose.
war with Iran due since 1979. Hundreds of terrorist attacks and acts of war including over 110 since Oct 7. I guess we will wait till they have a bomb and ICBMs and say, nothing we can do.
not mutually exclusive.
and 240 in syria when Reagan was president
allowing Iran to continue terrorism and acts of war is also crazy and it’s not just talk. Russia has its hands full donchano.
A wider war seems to be Iran’s hope. So far as I can see, the west is trying to pretend these shipping attacks aren’t a big deal, and expecting the Gaza war will end soon and the attacks will stop.
I think Iran has other plans, and attacking global commerce might be a longer term strategy. Once the Gaza war ends, the goalposts will be moved. The Houthis just need to get lucky once, and our hand will be forced. Meanwhile, we look weak for ignoring repeated attacks.
And?
We’ve had people in Kosovo for over 20 years under KFOR. Texas deployed a decent size group there a year or two ago.
Trump would not let Iran keep hitting us l8ke this, do you want to call him a neo- con. He is a Jacksonian.
I count on you to go after President Trump if he goes after Iran. He won’t tolerate it.
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