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Posted on 06/03/2026 4:06:49 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The US military has said it launched "self-defence" strikes on Iran overnight, and shot down ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries.
The strikes on Qeshm Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, were "in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East", US Central Command (Centcom) said.
Centcom said Iran had fired two missiles at Kuwait and three at Bahrain, all of which broke apart or were intercepted. Iran said it had attacked US bases and helicopters in a "regional country" using missiles and drones in retaliation.
One person was killed in Kuwait and a number of others injured when drones hit buildings including its international airport, according to the foreign ministry.
Kuwait's defence ministry spokesman, Brig Gen Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, called the attack "criminal Iranian aggression", while the Kuwaiti foreign ministry later said infrastructure including diplomatic missions had been damaged.
Centcom said the strike on Qeshm Island had targeted an Iranian military ground control station. It said the US also shot down three attack drones that had been launched by Iran toward "civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters".
Centcom had earlier said it had struck and "disabled" an unladen oil tanker that was sailing towards Iran, as part of the US naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, which began on 13 April.
A US aircraft fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of the Botswana-flagged M/T vessel, after its crew "ignored repeated warnings", it said.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said "disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will carry a heavy price for the aggressive US military".
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Yeah. I read last night that it was over.
Initially it was supposed to be over in weeks if not days. The again, Trump ran on no more “forever”wars and no nation building.
I was around for the hostage crisis.
We’ve been at war with the regime and its patrons for 45 years.
Don’t recall folks getting impatient with that.
Trump decides to end it by winning it, and now you lot are kvetching about how long it’s taking?!
Riiiiiight.
I guess all sides were done regrouping and rearming. We’re back, let the boom booms continue!!!
The war with the regime and its patrons didn’t end on the day Reagan was inaugurated and the hostages were released.
So how is all this mindless hokey-pokey going on actually "winning it?"
It's galling because Trump had the Iranians on the ropes but then lost his nerve after the close call with those two shot-down airmen and the strikes against the USAF tankers and E-3 Sentries, taking the offramp when the Pakistanis first asked for a "ceasefire."
So how has that worked out?
And how exactly is Trump going to end this? We've bombed the crap out of them, taken out 2 levels of leadership and ruined them economically yet the regime still stands. Still Trump thinks he can negotiate with these people. It's a joke to read every morning that they want to make a deal with us.
At this point there are only 2 options that can end this:
1. Cut and run but declare victory.
2. Put boots on the ground (pray for minimal casualties) and begin the long and uncertain process of nation building. The financial cost, not to mention the human cost, will be astronomical.
None of these would have been necessary had Trump not decided to attack in February. We could have lived with the status quo circa February 2026 and just kept taking out their nuke sites. As it stands now we are looking at long term commitment while being 40 Trillion in debt. It's a good thing Trump isn't running again or he surely would be defeated.
Last point- I want to be wrong about this. I would much rather be mocked and ridiculed than pay the price I think we will need to pay. Feel free to bookmark this article and say "I told you so" if I am wrong. But I don't think I am.
You can’t grasp the fact that the boots are already on the ground. There are tens of million iranian boots that will rise up when the time is right.
Then "no nation building" morphed into "no boots on the ground," and Trump signalled that the U.S. would not do what was necessary to finish the job once the first wave of shock and awe didn't do the job. So now the Iranian regime is betting on its ability to outlast Trump, which seems increasingly likely, and cash in on the reparations from the next Democrat president.
There's still not even a nominal Iranian government in exile, set up as a provisional interim government to manage the transition back as rejoins the civilized world. That should have been in place before the first strikes hit; when to roll it out publicly would be the question. (Some of us were pointing that out at the very beginning.) The military operation was meticulously and brilliantly planned, then carried out with full surprise and extraordinary precision. But it's now clear that the Trump team hadn't thought through the endgame, aside from hoping to get lucky.
This didn't start with Trump. It has become the familiar pattern of our kinetic overseas operations. We strike with stunning initial success. The enemy bunkers in and plays rope-a-dope, conducting asymmetrical warfare including terrorism. The U.S. public has a TikTok level attention span, the Democrats are a built-in fifth column, the MSM is in the disinformation business (abetted by the dark money and bot farm campaigns), the next election cycle is always on the horizon, and the U.S. goes home. That's now the formula.
It's not only our enemies who recognize this. All of our potential allies are well aware of it as well. And many of them don't have the option of going home when the going gets tough. If you were running one of the Gulf States, perhaps even adjoining Iran, would you bet on the U.S. being a reliable partner for longer than the next news cycle? If we won't stand firm, how can we expect Dubai and Qatar to do the job? Much less unarmed Iranian civilians who know they will be machine gunned if they take to the barricades? Is there a sane remnant in the Iranian military that might be able to overthrow the regime? They would have moved by now. Meanwhile at home, the Democrats are busily purging anyone in leadership who is to the right of Mamdani.
If there is a solution -- there are always potential solutions -- clarity of leadership and steadfastness of purpose are essential. Those are conspicuously absent.
This is the “Ceasefire War”.
“We’ve been at war with the regime and its patrons for 45 years.”
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I’m sure this is the kind of madness that gets whispered into Trumps ear by his Neo-Con advisors.
Yeah, I have about had it with that neocon slogan crap.
“We have to fight them there so we won’t have to fight them here”
Remember that that one? Except our doors were all opened a few years ago to allow them entry into our home and our government.
I imagine there will be some fighting here eventually.
Trump better STOP screwing around with the devil, either wipe the shit off the face of the map or GO HOME. STOP allowing the US to sell its oil on the world market, pump and refine OUR oil here and to hell with the “straight” and the rest of the world, let THEM deal with Iran. IF we pumped and refined OUR OWN OIL here, pump prices would be under $2 a gallon and democraps would be screwed.
This war has been getting on for almost 50 years. Forever Wars are just a catchy phrase that the media latched onto. It is the nature of humans to engage in conflicts. Sometimes those conflicts last random periods of time and then calm down but they never totally end. This is what is happening between Iran and the United States.
More pleading for a deal.
You keep pissing people off with the truth don’t you?
POTUS says Iran has been defeated.
Yet they still launch munitions.
IRAN HAS NOT BEEN DEFEATED!
I just post and they decide.
I can barely give attention to this matter anymore.
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