B Happy 要开心

I’m trying to avoid posting for Lent, but I want to be clear about my position, as it seems we may be on the brink of decisions of historic consequence: The US & Israel were the ones who launched a sneak attack against Iran. Trump himself compared it to the attack on Pearl Harbor. We opened the war with an attack that killed nearly 200 little girls at school. If the Japanese had done that at Pearl Harbor, it would still be on page one of every history book recounting the attack to this day. To then punish the civilian population of Iran by destroying power and water infrastructure, which can only be intended to cause mass civilian suffering and death, simply because they have not capitulated, is a war crime of the highest order. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen are under no obligation to follow such an order, and shame on any officer who orders them to do so.

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 Iranian woman stands in the ruins of her past home She definitely enjoys the liberation of her country...

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Iran's Red Crescent rescues a person from the rubble of a building just outside Tehran following intense US-Israeli airstrike

🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 "We need de-escalation in the Middle East" — UK's Keith Starmer "The Strait of Hormuz needs careful coordination and a viable plan"

🇴🇲🇮🇷 "This war is not of Iran's making. Oman is working intensively to put in place safe passage arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz." — Oman’s Foreign Minister, Badr Albusaidi

Will somebody please explain to me how, with the Strait of Hormuz a no-go-zone for the U.S. Navy, and our warships driven out of the Persian Gulf, we can support a USMC amphibious landing on Kharg Island, 750 miles from the eastern tip of Oman?🧵 Is the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group going to storm into the Persian Gulf, where our Burke-class destroyers won't go? Obviously not. This idea is insane. How about by helo and tilt-rotor? Out of range. What if they stage in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia for helo and Osprey lifts across the Gulf? Russia and China will tell Iran where to aim their drones and missiles while the force is assembling. Maybe a mass paradrop? Straight into an "Alamo" siege. Great idea. Not. What if the Marines just capture some of those "small" islands in the Strait of Hormuz? Qeshm is bigger than Okinawa. Larak is bigger than Iwo Jima. Any idea how many Marines and Soldiers it took to conquer just those 2 islands, at what cost in KIA and WIA? I keep reading absolute MORONS on X telling how some A-10s are "softening up" an area larger than South Vietnam, so that a few thousand Marines can attack and hold . . . what? It's as if space aliens studying only still images had no sense of scale of earth creatures, and thought a mouse could eat an elephant. It boggles my mind.