Posted on 03/27/2026 6:30:01 PM PDT by doc maverick
“The White House and the Pentagon are considering sending at least 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East in the coming days, according to a senior U.S. defense official. Why it matters: If the Trump administration decides to send extra troops, it will significantly increase the number of combat soldiers the U.S. has in the region. It is another signal that a U.S. ground operation in Iran is being seriously prepared.”
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Maybe 50,000??? Kharg Island could be a trap as Iran has 10 known nukes who could bury X number them and install a dead hand trigger...
To paraphrase Daniel 5:27 "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
Iran cannot survive without that island.
That is why we haven’t blown it up.
Not all Iranians are nutcase fanatic Moslem’s
and Trump knows that.
Letting it degrade into a Warlord mix of
states, won’t serve the worlds interests.
We must leave what is left of normal Iran
peoples to become a useful member of
the world again.
Big question is, will the people purge
their country of the Fanatics?
If a trip wire or similar (metaphorically) bomb kills thousands of Americans on Kharg Island, it would have to cause the shyness and timidity about bombing Iran into melted glass to be fully abandoned.
They don’t need nukes,they have Russia providing the next generation drone swarms by the tens of thousands.
Any landing will be a bloodbath.
Have you seen the drone deaths by those FPV Ukraine attacks on Russian soldiers?
Literally no place to hide, under bushes, under trees, hiding in the grass, close ups of the faces of death,
They track individuals and video right to point of impact, with still pictures transmitted from a foot away.. you wanna see American soldier die up close and personal by the thousands?
maybe the power that is, should bomb it into glass FIRST... then take it over.
God save the innocent and punish the wicked as only YOU know how to do...
The World wonders.
Don’t you usually do this before you go to war?
If Kharg Island is taken then that would be the death of Iran, so they have nothing to lose then.
This place needs to be renamed TDS Republic
Maybe 50,000??? Kharg Island could be a trap as Iran has 10 known nukes who could bury X number them and install a dead hand trigger...>>. any Kharg action will trigger a complete shutdown of the strait. There’s 400 miles of open coastline to stage attacks.
The Marines will take that island in 1 hour.
Ive explained this often. We take the island and let them export oil provided the strait stays open.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the island of Death
Rode the ten thousand ...
Whatever happened to No Blood for Oil?
Kharg Island is nearly 400 miles away from the Strait of Hormuz, you gonna hold that ground there? Set up a base? Win over some hearts and minds?
Kharg Island sounds like a monster movie….lol
Hmm. I should find my KI.
The Iranian regime has very little to lose NOW, and nowhere to go. That's what makes them dangerous.
Boots on the ground are a bad idea.
The president needs to find an off ramp and exit this war.
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