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BREAKING: New post from Trump asking about keeping Iranian oil

If Muslims colonized the Americas, all natives would've been castrated and died off as the last of their generation.

The New York Times is now describing Iran's very normal acts of self-defense - shooting down American jets that are BOMBING THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY - as an "escalation from Iran's leadership." Completely unhinged to publish stuff like this.

“It brings a human dimension to the war…” says Sky News’ military analyst about a missing American pilot from an F-15 jet. Has Sky News ever raised that same human dimension about the US and Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran?

The US is deploying most of its long-range JASSM-ER stealth missiles for the Iran war, pulling them from global stockpiles. Only about 425 remain available worldwide out of 2,300 prewar. These missiles have been heavily used—over 1,000 in the first month—reducing reserves meant for other conflicts. Replacing them could take years. Source: Bloomberg

I doubt Zarif is anywhere close to the center of elite opinion in Tehran. Instead, they're thinking: — Never let go of the Hormuz weapon — Impose the toll booth — Get the bomb — Rebuilt the missile arsenal — Petroyuan standard

Facing the total loss of the US position in the gulf, the president is under considerable pressure to escalate to a ground incursion. It is going to be an even bigger disaster, generating even more pressure for further escalation which will result in a full-blown catastrophe. It’s just really, really hard to see how the US can avoid defeat here. No course of action is promising in the least. Recent updates suggest that the interdiction war has failed. Hormuz cannot be retaken without it. Further decapitation is not going to work. The limited-objective ground incursion options, if undertaken, would almost certainly result in disaster. The US simply does not have the armed force strength — even with a draft — of occupying Iran. The United States has been truly defeated by the newly-minted great power.

“It brings a human dimension to the war…” says Sky News’ military analyst about a missing American pilot from an F-15 jet. Has Sky News ever raised that same human dimension about the US and Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran?

If you want an example of how insulated and unaccountable the U.S. foreign policy elite is, well, we’re living through it right now. Some of the same folks who assured us that deposing Saddam Hussein and installing a pro-U.S. democracy in Iraq would be cheap and easy are now, a quarter-century later, lecturing us on the importance of defeating Iran (whatever that means). And they’re selling the same snake oil they did back then by promising a new, transformative Middle East and arguing that the war will force adversaries to respect U.S. power again. You wonder why the U.S. commits the same mistakes over and over? There’s your answer. We have very short memories as a country. We refuse to look at history, let alone actually heed the lessons of the past. We operate on the same piss poor assumptions, continue to delude ourselves into believing the U.S. military power can will things into existence and consistently underestimate the capabilities of the enemy. And like clockwork, we fail to anticipate the consequences of our own actions. When things don’t go as planned, we put the blame on somebody else (like those entitled Europeans). I’m not sure what accountability would entail. But what I do know is that doing the same thing and listening to the same people will lead to the same dumb results.