Posted on 06/23/2019 11:58:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
Take the oil.
[Yes, we could bloody Iran really well, except we have no strategy to capitalize on it and it never a good idea to attack when a enemy wants it. Other than getting some revenge, a single massive air strike would accomplish little in the long run or backfire on us and our allies.
If or when it comes to attacking Iran, there needs to be a long term strategy, and any campaign needs to really hurt the regime, not just the Iranian military. ]
There are no final resolutions to many things. We just meet each new challenge as it comes.
That’s what happened in the fifties with Mossadegh. It ended up with the Ayatollahs. Not a good thing to repeat
You seem to think Putin wouldn’t respond to abUS nuclear attack in Iran....wrong
Two weeks ago, Breitbart reported Kerry as saying:
Well, I haven’t talked to the Iranians substantively about any issue. I’ve only talked with one Iranian once between the decision that was made to pull out. I saw the foreign minister briefly for a few minutes at the Munich Security Conference. But I have not said a word, substantively, to what they ought to do or not do, publically like this, since the decision was made to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. From that forward, this is a public issue, and I don’t engage in any diplomacy.Kerry admits to speaking to Iran. He tries to minimize it by repeatedly using the word "substantively," as if that's supposed to make it okay.I haven’t had any back-channel on that issue since the decision was made to move out. And before that, it was not a back-channel. I met publicly, as the New York Times editorial board did, as members of Congress did, as senators did and as other secretaries of state have done throughout history.
On the issue of back-channel communicating, Kerry qualifies his denial to "on that issue" of Trump pulling out of the Obama nuclear deal.
John Kerry is not to be trusted, ever.
-PJ
Having failed to take out PDJT with Muh Russia, they obviously tried again to start a war, this time with Iran.
Why did Kerry go to Iran on Sept.’18?
Why did Diane Feinstein meet the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif in May?
After the Iran briefing, Pelosi and Schumer were ecstatic after they left the briefing. They thought, “We’ve got him now!”
Wrong. PDJT at his masterful best. Played them like a fiddle. They will do anything to take down PDJT, including war. These people are not only stupid, they’re
patently obvious. They want to impeach and oust the man we elected to grab back Globalist power.
Well played, POTUS.
What Trump did with this (in)action was troll the MSM and further flesh out those fredocons who are still trying to force Trump out of office.
By Trump calling back the AF at the last minute, he once again showed that he is not a warmonger as the Democrats consistently portray him as. It also takes away the argument that he is somehow mentally flawed as his decision shows restraint, thoughtfulness and a love of humanity.
This is important as the media now has to reconcile his action to protect Iranian lives and his lack of humanity on our border without the useful idiots seeing this.
Who said Trump didn’t attack Iran? We are constantly probing their systems with our cyber capabilities which are better than Iran’s. Stuxnet worked so well, that it shouldn’t be a surprise that this form of warfare isn’t an ongoing part of the US military’s strategy on Iran. Include in that our HUMINT capability and working with Israel to disrupt the internal workings of the Iranian government.
All Trump needs to do now, is impose greater sanctions on Iran and just to give our enemies a taste of their own medicine, increase by 1 million the number of barrels of oil that are put on the market. Drive the price of a barrel of oil down by 20 bucks. That will send a very decisive message.
“You seem to think Putin wouldn’t respond to abUS nuclear attack in Iran....wrong”
I would be more concerned with China doing something to Taiwan.
I wonder what the level of shameless outrage would be if Trump announced an investigation into the prior administration’s contacts with Iran since January 2017.
‘Too many people in the kitchen spoils the soup’
All those people with NO business advising on foreign policy matters ... need to stay out of the debate.
I’m betting that John Kerry, 0bama and others have been working with Iran to get them to provoke a major military response from Trump which could then be fanned into an all-out war. Naturally, hundreds of thousands of Iranians and thousands of Americans would die in such a conflict, but that makes absolutely no difference to the dems, all they are interested in is regaining the White House.
The inept John Kerry is probably thinking “Curses...foiled again”.
Who really believed he was going to war with them over a drone?
That is one hilarious tweet.
Plus you missing one obvious point in who benefits from a middle eastern conflict that would drive up the price of oil. The Russians.
Anytime the price of oil/natural gas goes up the Russians make money. Their whole economy is based primarily on oil and gas exports. There is a mutual fund or ETF called The Russia Fund. I owned it at one point. I was advised to buy it as a hedge against oil prices. It went up and down based on the price of oil.
If the Europeans/Japanese can not get oil from the gulf because they do not want to risk bringing their tankers transiting through a war zone they will buy more Russian oil.
“The military option on Iran has two consequences.”
Toss in a third option...
Think of the US dollar-flow into Iran after the new Democrat President takes office. It would make Obama’s Big Cash Giveaway to the Iranian mullahs look like a kid’s weekend allowance. All just to say “We’re sorry we attacked you.”.
“” “” Anytime the price of oil/natural gas goes up the Russians make money. Their whole economy is based primarily on oil and gas exports. “” “”
Not really. Russian energy sector is just slightly larger than of US in terms of share of overall economy.
It is true that oil sales USED TO BE a major source of government revenue based on disproportional taxation of that sector in Russia but it is not true anymore as well.
Really, I didn’t realize that their economy had diversified that much.
I guess I should know. My company is now buying hundreds of container loads a year of Russian Spruce lumber. We were NOT doing this 5 years ago. A lot of Russian lumber is going to the middle east and China. In China it has displaced much of the Swedish/Finish and German/Austrian lumber.
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