John Alley

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@elonmusk @lina40863 @Elon is the master troller of smug libs. Don’t even get me started on his Reid Hoffman roast.

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@SGhasseminejad 🔈✌️ What terrifies the regime is not drones— it’s a people who are no longer afraid. 🔈✌️ آنچه رژیم را می‌ترساند پهپاد نیست؛ مردمی هستند که دیگر نمی‌ترسند. #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

Arming the Iranian people is a sound idea. It requires time, planning, and infrastructure. In the meantime, when protesters are in the streets, deploying 50–100 MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1C Gray Eagle over Iran’s ten largest cities for persistent loitering, surveillance, and precision targeting of repression forces on the ground would be a game changer and could accelerate the regime’s collapse. If Washington decides to pursue such a strategy-plans for it seriously, does the preparatory work, and maintains consistent messaging-mobilizing people into the streets and triggering defections within the regime’s security apparatus becomes entirely feasible.

Iran is not the Islamic Regime.

If I was advising the President, here is the timeline to shut-ins I would put forth: Current Length of Blockade: 20 Days Available On Shore Storage: 7-17 Days Total Tanker Storage: 25-39 Days Additional Extension via Trucking, Un-Mothballing, Rail (Conservatively): 7 Days Total BEST CASE Estimated Timeline: 57-81 Days I would also add this VERY important caveat: "This estimate is an absolute best case scenario. For purposes of planning, I would estimate that Iran has additional measures that they can still take such as infiltrating the blockade, lowering total daily production, and employing additional creative measures (which I will avoid posting to X) in order to potentially extend this timeline indefinitely. It is my assessment that oil well shut-ins are not a viable strategy to force the economic collapse of Iran, and I do not believe that economic hardship will be sufficient to force Iran to capitulate at the negotiating table in a way that produces the desired diplomatic outcomes we have thus far been unable to achieve by kinetic strikes. While the blockade and economic warfare campaign will damage the Iranian economy, it is not a strategy that has a high enough likelihood of success to implement as a primary strategy for the United States."

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@mtaibbi Matt, need these on YouTube please. Very much want to hear your take on the news. Willing to spend an hour a day listening. But caring about when you want me to watch is just too great an intellectual and scheduling burden for me. Kindly respond with a link. Love you, man.

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Hesam Alaadin (Hesam Aladdin), a 40 year old Iranian man in occupied Iran, was murdered by the terrorist Islamic Republic. His crime? Owning a Starlink terminal.

This is why the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran has shut down the internet and activated its online propaganda network. They don't want the world to know the truth about how Iranians really feel about their Muslim Nazi foreign occupiers.

My hero of the week: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi #TheQuad on @JNS_org with @FleurHassanN @gghamari and @skjask

@mercoglianos 5. The blockade will hopefully strangle the Nazis in Tehran and provoke revolution. Unless there is revolution, Iran will get nukes. But that truth is unspeakable politically. The tRumpsterfire does not care about the straight opening. They just pretend to. Barely.

"The Blockade is Genius!" This does raise several questions. 1️⃣Why did the U.S. not initiate the blockade on Day 1? 2️⃣Why was the US not more pro-active in operations in the Strait to keep commercial ships moving? Including getting out U.S. flagged ships still trapped? 3️⃣Why allow Iran to exert control over the Strait? And why de-sanction Iranian oil and allow it flow for the first month of the war? 4️⃣Why not have the requisite forces in place to start: i.e., the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, LCS mine countermeasure ships and the Expeditionary Support Base? 5️⃣Blockade is a historically long term tactic used in conflicts. Will it produce a re-opening of the Strait?

@mercoglianos 4. Ships cannot teleport. The Islamic Nazi Regime was slaughtering civilians and tRump publicly promised to help. When the war started, the straight was closed. The tRumsterfire's attitude was: Let the world howl and be damned. They expected the world to just get over it.