Iran Super Thread- Merged

[SeaKingTacco]

Maybe Israel should be looking for some new real estate to set up shop…about a continent away from where they currently reside.

I think Iran holds all the cards and has nothing but time, now.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

In fairness SKT, it didn’t take much persuasion for Israel to drag in the greatest, most intelligent, thrice cognitively tested President since Abraham Lincoln descended from Jesus to create the land of milk and money.

Regardless, they are screwed now.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities

Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted.

www.nytimes.com

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30 of 33 missile sites along the strait look to be operational.

Along with 70% of their mobile launchers, ~70% of their missile stockpiles.

And they've regained access to 90% of their underground missile storage.

Another anonymous leak from unamed sources in the uncharted bowels of the Pentagon. As reported by the stellar crew in the smoky editing rooms of the New York Times. A perfect example of the Wrap Up Smear.
I've become totally disillusioned with legacy media. I can't believe a thing they print. Especially when it follows the same script as the scripts before and the scipts after

 

[brihard]

Another anonymous leak from unamed sources in the uncharted bowels of the Pentagon. As reported by the stellar crew in the smoky editing rooms of the New York Times. A perfect example of the Wrap Up Smear.
I've become totally disillusioned with legacy media. I can't believe a thing they print. Especially when it follows the same script as the scripts before and the scipts after

I imagine your views were similar after information came out last summer that Iran’s nuclear program was not in fact ‘obliterated’ as had been claimed by the president, Hegseth et al? We all know how they turned out.

While none of us are in a position to assess the veracity of the claims themselves, some considerable retained capabilities is aligned with what we can see: the Strait remains closed, Gulf allies (who take most of the punches) have gotten much more reticent to allow unilateral military action, the U.S. has reneged on its claimed ‘opening’ of the straight, it won’t run convoys nor sail more than a quick one-off sortie into the strait, and clearly they remain unwilling to commit a ground force (rightly so).

All of this paints a picture of Iran still being assessed as having considerable military capabilities. Enough to make next steps hurt a great deal. Can any of us put percentages on that? No. But self evidently it’s “enough” to keep the U.S. and Israel somewhat at bay.

In fairness SKT, it didn’t take much persuasion for Israel to drag in the greatest, most intelligent, thrice cognitively tested President since Abraham Lincoln descended from Jesus to create the land of milk and money.

Person. Woman. Mistake. Debacle. Quagmire.

 

[lenaitch]

Another anonymous leak from unamed sources in the uncharted bowels of the Pentagon. As reported by the stellar crew in the smoky editing rooms of the New York Times. A perfect example of the Wrap Up Smear.
I've become totally disillusioned with legacy media. I can't believe a thing they print. Especially when it follows the same script as the scripts before and the scipts after

If you don't believe anything you read, why do you read anything (let alone reproduce it)?

 

[HavokFour]

Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars

The Army is grappling with a sudden budget crunch and scrambling to slash training costs across broad swaths of the force, officials said.

abcnews.com

The service's multibillion-dollar shortfall is the product of a widening set of operational demands and rising costs across the force.

Major drivers, a U.S. official noted, have been costs associated with the Iran war and an expanding mission securing the southern U.S. border.

At the same time, the service is absorbing ballooning personnel expenses and stepping in to cover missions tied to Department of Homeland Security funding lapses, including at the southern border and construction projects. The Army is expected to be reimbursed for covering down for some of DHS' expenses incurred during the record 76-day DHS shutdown.

So ~$1.1B for deploying the NG to DC, $25-29B claimed currently for Iran. How much exactly is being spent at the border and drained by the DHS that is causing strain with over a trillion dollar budget?

And then there's the cost of fuel.

"We need to know the impact of what it's having on the services executing missions beyond the war, the department notified us that the standard fuel price for the services has increased from $154 to $195 a barrel," Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., said Tuesday during a hearing on the Pentagon's budget.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars

The Army is grappling with a sudden budget crunch and scrambling to slash training costs across broad swaths of the force, officials said.

abcnews.com

So ~$1.1B for deploying the NG to DC, $25-29B claimed currently for Iran. How much exactly is being spent at the border and drained by the DHS that is causing strain with over a trillion dollar budget?

And then there's the cost of fuel.

Not my monkey's, not my circus.

 

[YZT580]

Not my monkey's, not my circus.

and in the meantime they are budgeting literally billions of dollars for the Trump-class battleship. Insanity