
Huginn
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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



🇺🇸🇮🇷 Hours after the Islamabad talks collapsed, Trump shares an article about his "trump card": a full naval blockade of Iran, the same strategy he used to weaken Venezuela before Maduro's ouster. A naval blockade would choke off all remaining Iranian trade, not just oil, and could be enforced by the three carrier strike groups already in the region. But Iran isn't Venezuela. Venezuela had no ability to close an international shipping lane. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz and just promised to continue "sacred defense by any means necessary." A blockade of Iran could trigger a counter-blockade of the Strait, which would take the global economy from crisis to catastrophe. The Venezuela playbook worked because Maduro had no leverage. Iran has the most important chokepoint on earth. Blockading a country that can blockade you back is a very different game.












🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is more SEVERE than the crises of 1973, 1979 and 2022 combined — Int. Energy Agency








