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Posted on 03/25/2026 11:10:29 PM PDT by dennisw
BREAKING: CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper just confirmed that B-52 bombers are UNLOADING up to 70,000 pounds of munitions in every mission on Iran
The US has struck over 10,000 THOUSAND Iranian targets, and 92% of Iran's largest navy vessels are destroyed
TWO THIRDS of Iran's missile, drone, and naval production facilities and shipyards are destroyed or damaged 🔥
"And we're not done yet. We are on a path to completely eliminate Iran's wider military manufacturing apparatus, which is why my operational assessment continues to be Iran's combat capability is declining as U.S. combat capability continues to increase."
"U.S. forces maintain air superiority over Iran's skies, having now flown over 10,000 combat flights."
"I just could not be prouder of our troops, and I know the American people share that same pride. Thanks so much. Godspeed." 🇺🇸
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Israel found some dumb bombs in an old warehouse that were made to be used against Egypt and they used them. Saved them some money.
Sounds like we’ve finally decided to play “Cowboys and Mullahs”.
CC
The bombs we’re dropping are not “dumb.” They have sophisticates guidance packages attached. They land right where we send them.
Our B-52s are based in England. we better send a shipload of bombs there now. Drop enough ground penetrators and Ayatollahs missiles, drones, mines will get buried. Or the entrances to storage depots get buried. We are mapping all storage locations from the air and AI crunching it into actionable intel for our B-52s etc.
So much for these clowns “missile cities” bluster.
I understand that. I’m simply saying that Israel found some old dumb bombs in a warehouse and decided to make use of them, since they are already paid for.
It was a lucky find for Israel, because it didn’t cost them anything to use them, since they were paid for and otherwise useless.
I definitely think they will close the underground missile launchers, if they haven’t already.
According to Centcom, there was originally 500 missile launchers and about 420 or so have been destroyed.
“Sounds like we’ve finally decided to play “Cowboys and Mullahs”.”
The Ayatollahs game is typical Muslim parasite. Infidels must Pay our million dollar tolls to get your tankers with Saudi & Gulf crude past our Hormuz choke point. These Moslem rip off artists would love to make the Hormuz Straits into the Ayatollahs permanent toll booth.
The Houthis were the test case for blocking international shipping
True.
The ayatollahs brought this on themselves.
We dropped more bomb tonnage in Vietnam than we dropped on Germany in WWII, and we still lost. Bombs alone won’t win this war.
Forty seven years of saying ‘Please bomb our asses’ has consequences.
Seemed to get the job done as far as the Japanese were concerned
Suicidal islamists are pretending to be “brave.” MSM calls them “defiant.”
Ramp it up. Dump as much fire as you can on the pos regime. I hope it intensifies week after week. Our boys and girls are getting a lot of practice while China rusts and Russia grinds itself down. This is a global war. Trump is a miracle.
This is all the back payments since ‘79.
CC
A few days ago, informed by the analysis of Ryan Bohl (offered here: https://www.youtube.com/live/1QNYrhTq1Qc), I wrote a reply.
Since then, I encountered this analysis of Professor Robert Pape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVsTTCoVeU ), which extends the one cited above and is even more troubling. I say troubling because I have made clear my support of this war which these arguments compel me to question.
It occurs that many of the assumptions arguing in favor of our strike in Iran may not hold true and might in fact produce quite the opposite conditions than we suppose.
For example, we were well aware of the proposition that airpower alone cannot win wars. These experts argue we cannot effect regime change, we cannot secure a nuclear free Iran, nor can we protect the flow of oil past the Strait of Hormuz at a cost we are willing to pay.
We believe that Iran was a terrible threat if it possessed a nuclear bomb because it was a suicide culture. Professor Robert Pape argues that it is the presence of American Armed Forces in these lands rather than religion that generates terrorist attacks.
Assumptions that a regime change can be effective, think Venezuela, by decapitation alone might well be unfounded.
Finally, the Professor Argues persuasively that we have stepped into a trap and that Donald Trump must choose, not how successfully to extricate ourselves, but which terrible choice he must select, that will leave Iran stronger, not weaker than before, that will leave America weaker with the Trump administration in grave domestic political trouble.
My reply follows. I believe the analysis of the Professor only reinforces the downside of our dilemma. Here is that reply:
I would add that if these conditions ultimately prevail, Iran has “won” because it has demonstrated that it can fatally damage its neighbors by attacking their desalination facilities. Less strategically but important, Iran can fatally damage its neighbors oil based economies with similar strikes. As good as our missile defense system might be, it will have proven to be inadequate to protect the Gulf states and inadequate to protect shipping navigating the Strait of Hormuz. Iran in time will continue to dominate the Gulf through intimidation and eventually make war on Israel and even on the United States
Worse, the world will perceive that America, despite its military strength, is unable to actually change nations’ policy. It will have revealed itself to be a paper tiger, albeit a high-tech paper tiger, but paper in the sense that counts. We will have left Iran with its offensive capacity diminished, but still lethal where it counts. We will have left the world worse off for the attempt.
Inevitably, the world, and our own electorate, looking at the gas pump, will conclude, “you broke it, you bought it” and make the Trump administration pay.
This is the key moment in Donald Trump’s career. Seemingly, he cannot put boots on the ground, he cannot rally allies, he cannot protect allied Gulf states effectively, he cannot effect regime change, he cannot adequately protect Gulf oil shipments, and he cannot prevent runaway price increases of oil with ensuing damage to the world economy, including America’s economy.
These apparent realities would result in a grievous catastrophe for America, not the least because it would imply an overwhelming rejection of the Trump administration in the upcoming November elections.
I think Trump can rise to this challenge and prevail, as daunting as the situation seems to be. He has options. He can release the Kurds, forcing the Iranian regime to mass against the Kurds and become vulnerable to American airstrikes. He can deliver arms to disparate anti-regime forces, sparking rebellion supported by American air, leading to regime change. He can actually strike Iran’s electric grid, etc., bringing pain to the people to the degree that they will have to take to the streets, igniting regime change. He can insert special elite forces at critical points to ignite rebellion. He can accept the costs of mounting a convoy through the Straits and actually succeed.
Finally, he can cut a deal, Venezuelan style, with amenable parts of the Iranian regime who will agree to passage through the Strait, dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program with inspections, and an armistice with Israel.
With this, Trump could claim victory, but merely claiming that he’s destroyed nuclear facilities and missiles while leaving a belligerent Iran intact, simply will not do.
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