I still cant fathom how a military getting nearly a trillion dollars every year even allows a desert dwellers missle to come within 500 miles of one of our bases let alone light it up with impunity.
Because it's drones not Missiles that are managing to hit, and even then I'd never describe it as them "lighting us up with impunity" because that both implies they had a much higher success rate than they did in reality, and that it was done without consequence to themselves (which for every bit of ordinance they landed in targeted areas they received back exponentially more)
as an example
Iran fired 186 missiles into the UAE, only one hit it's target.
Iran fired 101 missiles into Qatar, 3 were not intercepted.
Because it's drones not Missiles that are managing to hit, and even then I'd never describe it as them "lighting us up with impunity" because that both implies they had a much higher success rate than they did in reality, and that it was done without consequence to themselves (which for every bit of ordinance they landed in targeted areas they received back exponentially more)
as an example
Iran fired 186 missiles into the UAE, only one hit it's target.
Iran fired 101 missiles into Qatar, 3 were not intercepted.
That’s my main concern with him and that Tucker Carlson likes him. We should fuck up our enemies not suck them off. We should fuck up every member of Brics economically and in every way we can because it’s an inherently anti-American alliance.
However unless the Brics aligned seditionists and traitors in and out the U.S. govt are also dealt with permanently. Almost anything else Trump does to Brics can be rolled back in the next administration.
However unless the Brics aligned seditionists and traitors in and out the U.S. govt are also dealt with permanently. Almost anything else Trump does to Brics can be rolled back in the next administration.
Only on the condition he slams one into Sydney next. Mostly because throwing shit at Australia is what evil villains with control of space do, but also because the Australian people would thank us for ridding them of that place.
If the Russians get to promote their tank crews to cosmonauts, I see no reason Iran shouldn't be allowed to promote its speedboat crews to submariners.
We are going to be in so much trouble with Khorne if we keep teasing him like this. The Blood God will have his Blood! The skull throne will have its skulls! The only question will be who provides them!
Sultan, son of the cursed Sultan of Turkey, companion of Satan, hellish abysmal Sultan of Turkey, Greek pedestal, cook of Babylon, armourer of Jerusalem, wheelwright of Assyria, winegrower of greater and lesser Egypt, Alexandrian pig farmer, Armenian saddle-piece, Tatar dog, accursed viper living in the world, thief of Kamenets-Podolsky and all the world, subject of the spider and the scarecrow, bogeyman of the whole world, Turkish district busurman [Muslim], I am equal to the body, slanderer of Satan, whole host of hell, cursed messenger of Satan, enemy of the God and persecutor of his servants, hope and comfort of the busurmen [Muslims], and their downfall and sorrow. We will not yield to you, but we will fight you.
France, really, really, really wants to get in on the ground floor of a post-sanctions Iran and start selling them weapons and nuke tech in exchange for oil.
Of course, the most likely way that happens is if they back Trump to the hilt and get those privileges in exchange, but that would require them to side with Trump, and that's never going to happen.
too much lore autism but in short;said mission i linked involves having to shoot down a rival corporation that's using satellites to spy on the corporation you're apart of. Since said rival corp doesn't have the technology nor the scientists needed for a starfighter. You can just blow thsoe satellites up by using the corporation's state of the art R-32 SEPIA starfighter to absolutely buck break them in space. Wanted to say this since it reminds me alot of the technological superiority of American tech vs the vastly inferior Chinese tech. Japanese flying rockets with guided bombs anime vidya somehow predicting the future sperging over.
Tuq'r ibn Qarl is not an imam, but he *knows* Trump is literally a wizard (possibly a djinn?) casting spells on people that makes them act like they're stoned on hash. This is why they have gone along with him on MIGA o algo
500,000 to 1 million dead is barely even rookie numbers, with the number of active and passive subversive communists, socialists and other flavors of marxists in the United States. Trump almost have to give Mao and Genghis Khan a run for their money at the highest kill score in purging all of them.
I'm pretty sure Stud is losing a battle with wet brain and just drifting from one unrelated point to another while he keeps asking chatgpt to fish up sources for him (while reading none of them mind you)
Same reason he replied to me pointing out Iran's shit success rate with missile strikes by linking an article about ceasefire breaches which has fuck all to do with anything that was said before.
Only on the condition he slams one into Sydney next. Mostly because throwing shit at Australia is what evil villains with control of space do, but also because the Australian people would thank us for ridding them of that place.
I'm pretty sure Stud is losing a battle with wet brain and just drifting from one unrelated point to another while he keeps asking chatgpt to fish up sources for him (while reading none of them mind you)
What was Communist Vietnam really struggled post-1974. Only when the politburo wised up in the mid-80s with free market reforms called "Doi Moi" did the country begin to grow. Something around 95% of Vietnamese today support free markets, far more supportive than the US even. What was a victory for the communists was only a pyrrhic victory in the end.
It was a useless war in the end, but hindsight is everything. If the US really wanted to try, they wouldn't have just gone on the defensive, but offensive (trying to take North Vietnam). China would have not liked that though.
Was going to post a video as part of thread tax but it looks like Mrracewar posted it earlier up the thread
we are so fucking bad at this asymmetric warfare shit, we dog walk large traditional military but these death by 1,000 cuts got us in Vietnam, then Afghanistan and now it looks like Iran to
It's the guerilla mindset of hiding amongst or using the larger civilian population that is what makes us "bad." It requires a level of brutality the west cannot stomach and also a full scale occupation (not a provisional government like Afghanistan) when the fighting has stopped. These groups/governments know this and also know we won't fully commit to it, until we figure that out or stop involving ourselves in this shit nothing will ever change.
The US military wasn't afraid of Vietnam it was afraid of China, so we didnt pursue them into the north like in Korea, which is a loss condition.
The US military could control Vietnam's topography only if the US also invaded Laos and Cambodia, which goes back to the fear of China. So that didn't happen.
The necessity to fight Communists in Vietnam was pointless, and based on a warped view of "containment" that was a faulty premise. This is considering that Stalin didn't back Vietnam because he was more focused on France's internal communist possibilities, and China never really pushed for "world domination" in that era.
The doctrine of attrition which was "kill as many as you can, until they can't be replaced" in local jungle warfare didn't lead to any desired outcomes, since the traditional battlefield doctrine of "take and hold" wasn't possible because of points 1, 2, and 3. The units that actually embedded with natives had far more success. However, as soon as the war became "burn down the village" it just lead to the NVA/VC becoming more popular with the locals.
The standard military practice before Korea was for the United States to win a war, and then implement a military government. This actually worked in Europe, and also worked in South Korea. What doesn't work is CIA backed "independent" governments where every leader is a general who pays their family, and is surrounded by a bunch of political animals that are ready to take over in their own coup. Its a recipe for unpopular government.
The troops that existed in the volunteer US Military were enough to deploy in Vietnam, but because they were afraid of WW3 happening with a phantom soviet union army invading Europe, they instead made 33 percent of the military random fresh recruits. So you had veterans sitting in Europe and people who didn't know why they were there, or what the point was in vietnam. And their life was basically sitting in random FOBs, doing patrols, getting attacked, and then wondering what the fuck all of it was for before being rotated out individually.
The war and defeat in Vietnam is actually completely self-inflicted. Any time someone brings up a failed US military operation its almost always because someone didn't want to "go all the way" like WW2. It's Black Hawk Down where they didn't want to bring in tanks and gunships, and instead sent in unarmored humvees because of some kind of international propriety. Its like Afghanistan or Iraq where there's no will to destroy the entire substructure of the people and take it for ourselves, mixed with the "what are we doing here aside from fighting a phantom enemy".
The problem was almost never the ability of the military to achieve military objectives. It was always that there was some layer of abstraction that had nothing to do with "Kill, Take, Hold, Command." which is all the military is really for. It was always some kind of slice of geopolitical game where we need to "Occupy, Search, Destroy, Subvert" which is what intelligence agencies do for the State Department based on data driven concepts.
The difference with Iran is the current military decided to completely cut everything out except the "kill/destroy" objective.
No one has a historical game plan prepared for this, which is frankly why none of these comparisons actually work. There's no situation where the US Military did these "C&C decapitation strike/negotiate/siege" tactics because the technology didn't exist. The political objective was never possible based on military techniques until recently. Before that it cost thousands of lives in country. Now you don't even have to be there.
Not to go off-topic, but since Vietnam is often brought up here as a point of comparison and people seem to have some degree of insight, can I get some pointers on media (books, documentaries, articles, Youtube videos, whatever) on the Vietnam war that isn't the standard "US troops killed vietnamese babies and burned their villages and fragged each other and lost to the superior commie farmers" narrative? That's all.
PS: BPDay was promised to me around 2000 messages ago, so I'm hoping it still happens at some point. Kinda miss "I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them" Trump.
I read a theory that the real reason Saudi Arabia and Kuwait threatened to cut off use of their bases and skies was because they expected Trump to escalate once Iran started firing missiles in response to Project Freedom, and they got pissed when Trump dismissed Iran's actions as being below the ceasefire threshold.
They may have spent the past 24 hours explaining to Trump that if he wants to keep his blockade in place, he has to actually shoot back whenever they're shot at, even if it means losing his magical deal.
What was Communist Vietnam really struggled post-1974. Only when the politburo wised up in the mid-80s with free market reforms called "Doi Moi" did the country begin to grow. Something around 95% of Vietnamese today support free markets, far more supportive than the US even. What was a victory for the communists was only a pyrrhic victory in the end.
Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.
Iran is the single most committed and least deterrable enemy of the United States, and was developing ever more lethal means to inflict grave harm.
Democrats and their media allies who mostly know better are calling operations against Iran a war of choice for political gain. It is only a war of choice if you are okay with Iran using proxies to continually kill Americans, or if you are cool with a smuggled nuclear bomb one day going off in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv.
We have fought plenty of wars of choice in recent history. In 2010, General David Petraeus, then CENTCOM commander, admitted that what kept him up at night was worrying about Iran.
Just so long as Nurgle and Slaanesh stay out of it. Well, maybe not Slaanesh. Dubai was such a temple to excess. Dommy mommy can't be happy with Iran for interrupting the party.
