Posted on 06/21/2019 3:33:46 AM PDT by BurgessKoch
There are wars and rumors of war. And then there is Trump’s policy toward Iran, which fuels endless speculation.
Despite much public handwringing over the announcement that the Pentagon is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Gulf region, there are no signs the U.S. plans to escalate the stand-off with Tehran ...
All of this is to say that the U.S. can establish a sustained presence in the Gulf with low risk, at a reasonable cost, keeping the waters open forever.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
” Maybe they hope that, by roiling the waters anew, they will help turn Trump out of office in 2020 and perhaps get a more compliant replacement.”
That’s exactly the plan, aided and abetted by treasonous John Kerry.
And PDJT is playing the long game, keeping Hormuz open while starbing the Imams.
The Imamas are starting to twitch.
Why not let them lapse into wholesale seizures?
Then perhaps the Iranian People will rise up and reclaim their Liberty.
I know one thing: Trump is making John Kerry look really stupid!
Iranian Mine & Missile Warfare Explained By Former Navy SEAL
(Me, in a ten minute segment on Infowars today.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXoQcGELgUE
They can’t stop the message. YT took it down, it’s still available.
Iranian Mine & Missile Warfare Explained By Former Navy SEAL
(Me, in a ten minute segment on Infowars today.)
https://www.brighteon.com/6050551703001
Account terminated: via youtube.
Your video is gone
You’re fast Travis......LOL!
(Yes I know Peshwa Warriors were not Iranian)
Curious the writer did not address the really big deal concerning Iran, and that is their nukes and plutonium and the reportedly impenetrable deep bunkers where they are secured, and the work continues, and where the leadership ‘tolas can retreat.
The US is not going to obliterate the surface of Iran and their people, who despise what their leaders are.
Interestingly, Goolag/Yootoob wiped out the channel that put it up about 12 hours after it was put up. I have no idea who “Baked Blunts” was, but thanks, it was fun while it lasted. And thanks to whoever put it on Brighteon.
I didn’t get to make all my points in those 10 minutes, I had just a few disjointed notes when I found out I had a ten minute solo segment. I thought I’d be on with Alex doing back-and-forth. My part on the limpets was pretty clear I think, except when I spoke of the 1980s tanker war and the SEALs sniping Iranian mine layers. To be clear, only Iranians were laying mines. SEALs were doing the sniping from small silent helicopters.
As far as motive, I think Iran is desperate to force new international negotiations over the sanctions that are choking them badly. Their only trump card to force new negotiations at a global level is to make a highly credible threat to close down the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers. It’s Europe, Japan and Korea who will be begging for new international UN-level talks with Iran, if they think their oil will be cut off due to a war in the Persian Gulf.
As long as it’s just Trump vs the Iranian mullahs, the mullahs have little leverage, because we are energy independent. They need to scare the crap out of the Euros and Asians, but they need to provoke the USA into an “overreaction” attack to gain world sympathy during the escalation to a middle east missile war. (Iran knows a lot about missile wars.) I’m glad Trump did not take the bait, thus far.
And there is that generational aspect I spoke of. The remaining elderly mullahs of the 1979 revolution who still control Iran don’t want to die and have “moderates” inherit Iran, “moderates” who might make peace with the West on terms unacceptable to those elderly hard-line mullahs. If war with the Great Satan and Little Satan (Israel) is going to happen, they want it to happen now, while they can determine the path of the war.
Iran is hurting, the old mullahs are dying off, and they want the big fight sooner, not later. And they want to share the hurt with the decadent West. “If we are going to suffer, so are you decadent Western pigs.” If they make a credible enough threat against the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping, they’ll get new UN-level international negotiations to soften the sanctions. And if it escalates out of control, they’ll get to attack the Little Satan in a major way, and wreck the economies of the hated West.
That’s how I see it.
Show strength and exercise restraint. If there is to be any major move make sure it is the other guy who very surely makes that move first. Be the defender, not the offender. We can afford the time to do that.
Looks like the “softening” you write about is already happening:
Per the post by Mewzilla that came just before yours: EU emergency meeting scheduled for June 28.
The Left thinks with their emotions. A Democrat/Left president would have retaliated by now without, as usual, thinking things through until after the attack.
The Western alliance is dead. The new Brits are now whacked and the whole EU is a litter of increasingly aggressive Marxists. Methodically Dumbing down of the generations is certainly not confined to the USA.
Amen
Listening to MSNBC’s own Hugh Hewitt (aka the guy Bill Bennett mistakenly set up as a replacement) you’d think Trump has turned into Obama.
Fooey!
That’s probably the most cogent observation so far - The Western Alliance is dead.
I suspect Trump may kill NATO. All it is doing is putting weapons in the hands of ‘allies’ who are actively using those weapons and intel against US Citizens and US National Interests.
There is Poland to consider. They are the most rational country on that continent right now, and for all intents and purposes stands alone (again).
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