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Posted on 03/30/2026 4:55:28 AM PDT by zeestephen
"Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately "Open for Business," we will conclude our lovely "stay" in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet "touched."
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At the risk of being repetitive:
Bomb the mainland Oil Pumps to Kargh.
Advantages include:
Cheap, nearly riskless, repeatable, perfectly effective, easily reversible when we decide, no boots required, etc.
Wouldn’t it have been smarter to consider the downsides or responses to this action? Or you don’t see any?
In related news:
“Live Updates: Haifa refinery said hit in latest Iranian barrage”
- Jerusalem Post, headline only, no article.
Iran sells oil to China at discounted prices, funding both of those malefactors.
If Trump’s strategy is to shut off that oil flow, I’m offering a least cost tactic.
That’s it.
Have you considered the downsides to inaction?
Ergo, he is probably going to take control of Kharg Island and Iran's oil, and use that as leverage to get various non-radical factions to come to the bargaining table peacefully.
So hard to keep up with Trump’s gaslighting on this. I thought we obliterated Iran 2 weeks ago? But then I thought we had a 10 day ceasefire because a deal was close? But now if we don’t get a deal we’re going to obliterate them again, but since we’ve already obliterated them, what are we going to bomb? What a massive cluster this entire situation is.
We’ve heard this from Trump already, and he keeps delaying. No more delays! Bomb everything and send in the Marines to take the country.
Well, that will make things better...
So there are two scenarios that I see: Interdiction or Ownership.
I was speaking of interdiction, and offering a least cost tactic.
Ownership is another potential goal, in which we physically control the entire supply chain from wellhead to market, which would require many boots in many places. I know of no proponents or analysis of pros and cons for that scenario. It seems to me a very high cost very high reward proposition: basically taking Iran’s oil for ourselves, until we get everything we want.
I prefer the former.
I understand the latter.
Sadly, every single source I can find recommends strongly against a full scale invasion. Iran is huge, mountainous, and has a 20% well armed faction that is organized and deadly and well designed to defend against invasion.
Let’s focus on the possible.
You. or your kid should sign up to be on the front line.
This reckless action would blow up the worlds economy.
He needs to stop this daily ranting.
The stock market is crashing because of his rants.
Everyone’s 401K are getting destroyed.
WE need calm and methodical WH voices.
What Trump needs to control is a chokepoint like Kharg Island, and perhaps one other control node.
Bingo .
Whose wants to send their kid to get killed for this Israeli - Saudi quagmire.
Admit you don’t like President Trump. You complain about him on every post. Go back to voting Democrat Party.
You know we can.
There are not enough Marines to “take the country”. Simply by the numbers. The country is the size of Alaska, lots of mountainous topography, and a population of over 90 millions. There are only ~168,000 Marines, and practically you couldn’t deploy into Iran more than maybe 20,000 or so with extreme effort.
Not today.
Tech stocks have rallied from negative to up 1%-2%.
In my opinion, Trump rants are a strategy, not a policy.
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