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@EaracheEye @WarMonitor3 I mean they used $4million Patriot missiles to shoot down Shaheds & refused Ukraines proposal 7 months ago to use the $1000 interceptor which they’ve used against Shaheds themselves. The Arabs bought it directly from Ukraine instead as Trump’s ego rejected them. Incompetent.

@WarMonitor3 not surprising, but just lovely. i doubt the least qualified sec def of all time considered this might happen.

US intelligence suggests China may have already given Iran manpads and is planning to send more-NYT

@Antirugpulls @WarMonitor3 Careful, they don’t always sense sarcasm.

@WarMonitor3 The only sane thing to do after reading this is invading Greenland. Or promoting extreme right leaders in Europe. That'll teach China.

@FLWrightA @Osint613 False equivalencies, Hitler managed to kill 11/17million people. I’m not defending them, they need to go, but if we are going to be factual then Israel has killed more people overall thus far than Iran has, no matter the causation.

@Osint613 No point in negotiating anything but the surrender of the criminal Mullah regime - just as there'd have been no point in negotiating anything in 1945 with Hitler that would've kept him in power.

UPDATE 🔴 Significant gaps remain between the U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams.

@DanielLMcAdams The man who couldn’t win an asymmetric war against Iran without needing to send the VP to Pakistan of all places to negotiate through mediation and entertain Iranian counter points thinks he can fight an adversary 40x the strength of Iran. He also promised no more wars 😆

Dude just loses a war to Iran...picks a fight with China. He's nuts.

@Osint613 He said all of that yet he still had to send his vice president to Pakistan (fml) to negotiate with them and entertain their counter points? The geopolitical mess he has created? He doesn’t care.

Trump: "They have no navy. They have no radar. They have no air force. Their leaders are all dead. Khamenei is gone. For many years he ruled; he's gone. With all of that, let's see what happens, but from my standpoint, I don't care."

@RevokeCtznship @Osint613 And they will destroy all the gulf refineries in the gulf in retribution. What will you do then?

@Osint613 Time to annihilate Iranian oil and gas industry. Anything less leaves the regime in charge and with money to buy weapons. Without oil and gas it will also be irrelevant to China and India. Time for Israel to do the job. Let the chips fall where they may.

Reporter: Iran is not listening to your threats about opening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump: How do you know that? Reporter: Because it’s still blocked. Are they reopening it? Trump: Why do you say that? You don’t know anything.

@TY203922055166 @WarMonitor3 Your country has not learned its lesson in 250yrs that destroying entire nations does not remove ideology, it feeds it. You have been at war for 230yrs & have still not learnt anything. We joined ur ME wars for 20yrs just to give birth to ISIS in Iraq & gave Afg back to Taliban.

@TY203922055166 @WarMonitor3 What you funded and gave credence to in the 1980’s to use against the soviets ultimately turned on you and by extension the rest of the civilised world. This is no different now to Trump starting a war, facing a strategic defeat in SOH & forcing others to remedy his incompetency

Iran has claimed the Strait Of Hormuz and is threatening any ship that tries to cross without its express perspective.

@WarMonitor3 No that can’t be right, Trump has told us many a thirty times that the big beautiful strait is open. Nobody opens the strait like they do.

@MarioNawfal At some point they can just buy a nuke from Pakistan. Pakistan was the one who originally sold Iran and North Korea centrifuges and blueprints.

I worry this war has INCENTIVIZED Iran to build a nuclear weapon What deterred Iran before was the threat of a war with the U.S. Well, that war has now happened, and Iran survived (one can argue it “won”). So there are a lot fewer reasons for Iran not to build a nuclear weapon now, and many incentives: it would give them the ultimate deterrent against any future wars. Everyone points to Libya vs North Korea: Gaddafi gave up his nuclear ambitions, and was later killed after NATO bombing, while the other operates with impunity, with nobody seriously talking about any military conflict against North Korea

Definitely not gay enough. Needs a lot more gold. Maybe Trump could lend us some from the oval office.

@TrentTelenko The US navy will only be able to keep the SOH open by force with indefinite military presence else there is nothing stopping Iran from blockading again. Trump is now stuck in a long game, having promised a 5/6 week window which ended yesterday.

Iran is unhappy the US Navy is reopening the Strait of Hormuz.⬇️ The only way Iran can stop this is by shooting anti-ship missiles and restarting the war. This is likely because most of the senior IRGC leaders were killed and their replacements are both more militant & stupid.

@alvin_m990 @MarioNawfal They would never be gone, you should know better. We wasted 20years fighting for US in Iraq and Afghanistan and look what happened, one gave birth to ISIS and the other was handed back to the Taliban. Even if you destroy entire nations, nobody can destroy ideology, only feed it.

That wasn’t a war.. that was a 3 week military op. If the US went full throttle, with boots on the ground and using all the equipment they have. It would be a different story. Yes it’d end up in another forever war but just like Iraq, years later and with destabilized country in the Middle East, the straight would be open and the worlds sponsor of state terror would be gone

I had this thought today. What the world witnessed between the U.S. and Israel against Iran was one of the largest coordinated air campaigns ever launched against a single nation-state by two allied powers. Few operations, if any, in the modern era compare. In the first 72 hours alone, over 1,700 targets were struck. By day seven, the U.S. had hit more than 3,000. By day ten, 5,000. The final U.S. tally: over 13,000 targets. More than 2,000 command and control sites. 1,500 air defense positions. 450 ballistic missile targets. 600 naval targets. Israel matched that tempo on its own terms. In 18 days, the Israeli Air Force flew what it normally flies in a full year. More than 12,000 munitions dropped. 8,500 strikes across Iran. 5,700 combat sorties in the Iranian theater alone. 7,000 targets struck across all fronts of operation. Before Iran could respond meaningfully, Israel had destroyed 80 to 85 percent of Iran’s air defense architecture. Radars. Interceptors. Detection systems. Gone. Iran was producing roughly 100 ballistic missiles per month before the war. That capacity is now close to zero. The first 24 hours were double the firepower of the opening of the 2003 Iraq War. Desert Storm opened with 150 targets. Epic Fury opened with 1,700. The most sustained joint air campaign of the 21st century. By two countries. Footage from CENTCOM compiled by @Osinttechnical

@WarMonitor3 How can there really be successful negotiations when Trump sends his friend and son-in-law to every negotiation on behalf of the US. What is the purpose of the Secretary of State. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have never successfully negotiated a peace anywhere.

Iranian sources are describing talks as a last chance to establish a framework for long term peace.

@WarMonitor3 If WWIII happens during Trumps term US will be on the bad side, if it happens after then on the good side.

Is WW3 Eventually Inevitable?

@Osint613 Apparently Trump is asinine and whoever he endorses abroad has historically lost. The irony being Trump posted about the “kiss of death” earlier today.

Polymarket: Péter Magyar leads Hungary PM market at 72%, with Orbán at 28%. Interesting.

> Lose a war > Build a triumphal arch

What God?