Generals know SFA about economics or trade.
1. The USA controls about 50% of global crude oil reserves, LNG, and refining capacity. It can stop Iran selling oil.
2. Iran needs to import about a third of its food and most industrial products. The USA can stop that.
There is no need whatsoever for a military invasion or using nukes. Just switch off their electricity, their food, their revenues, and watch the Iranian people take over.
A former NATO commander just said the quiet part out loud.
Trump is trapped. The military logic of this war has collapsed into a binary no one in Washington wants to say clearly: either launch a ground invasion of Iran – a country of 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and three decades of asymmetric warfare doctrine – or declare victory over rubble and go home.
Neither is winning. One is catastrophe. The other is theatre. The Strait of Hormuz is still contested. Iranian proxies are still operational. The nuclear program is dispersed, hardened, and possibly accelerated. Air strikes didn’t end the threat.
Every day this drags on, the gap between what was promised and what is achievable gets wider.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
@rottenbanana101@Microinteracti1 And this was obviously a completely stupid set of objectives to pursue because of the obvious repercussions for everyone in the world.
@Microinteracti1 What was promised was to severely degrade Irans defense industrial base and destroy most of Irans current stockpile of ballistic missiles .
Now 8000+ targets hit, means both objectives were met.
@TopherGotWifi@realMaalouf Removing one guy will change nothing for a country half the size of the USA in landmass and nearly a quarter of its size in population.
If these people want change they're going to need to kill people. And the Islamic Revolutionary Guard will need to fall all across the country.
@realMaalouf Awesome to see. Liberal white women and democrats are furious about this though.
Happy for Iran. Happy for America. Happy for Israel and the Middle East.
The world owes Donald Trump a debt of gratitude.
Iranian women are celebrating. Not a single hijab in sight.
This is the main difference between Iran and Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Unlike those countries, where the population is extremist, it’s the complete opposite in Iran.
The Islamic regime never represented them.
@realMaalouf Removing one guy will change nothing for a country half the size of the USA in landmass and a nearly a quarter of its size in population.
If these people want lasting change they're going to need to start killing people.
@MAGAVoice Are we still so stupid that we think that removing one guy will change anything for a country half the size of the USA in landmass and a nearly a quarter of its size in population?
BREAKING 🚨 Iranian women are DANCING in the streets WITHOUT HIJABS on. THEY FEEL FREE
President Trump just freed Iran for Iranians
PEACE through STRENGTH 🙏
@PatriotVerity@MsTrixieRVA@MNPoliceAssn You can hear that three shots were fired.
Your own photo shows a single bullet hole at the very edge of the front windshield, which means the shooter unloaded the next two bullets through her open driver side window as the car was driving *past* him.
@MsTrixieRVA@MNPoliceAssn Renee was a worthless excuse for a mom who hit a federal agent with her car and should have known she was probably going to lose her life when she chose not to stop before hitting him yet chose to abandon her 3 kids to be a criminal thug. There I said her name
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The fact is that bamboo scafolding has been used safetly in Hong Kong for many years. There are no known incidents attribute fire causation solely to bamboo's fire performance.
There could be many other reasons to replace bamboo with steel as scafolding, strength, availability of material, consistent material strength, etc., but it is certainly not because of its fire performance properties. It also needs to be balanced against bamboo's natural advantage either, being light weight, easy to handle, cheap, flexible, etc.
With hundred of deaths, the investigation should be to focus on what had exactly caused it. The non-compliant flammable netting is one, the lack of fire detection or response is one, the lack of training or awareness from workers to fire risk is also one, the lack of enforcement or quality check of non-compliant material is also one.
As we all said, you put steel scafolding on the same building, and the result will still be the same with other conditions remain intact.
If none of those contributing events were fixed, and we all switched to steel scafolding thinking this will solve everything, then we could end up hurting more families in the future.
1/ I don’t often speak in my professional capacity as a Hong Kong–born, UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS, MAPM, NECReg, among others). But I need to address inaccurate reporting about bamboo scaffolding in the Hong Kong Tai Po fire.
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