gary masters

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼 Good morning Kuwait! air raid sirens are blaring without enf in Kuwait following Iran's targeting of American assets by missiles and drones.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼 Good morning Kuwait! air raid sirens are blaring without enf in Kuwait following Iran's targeting of American assets by missiles and drones.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 Tel Aviv is burning apocalyptic bright orange, daily with sirens that drown out the screams of Israelis living with the consequences of Bibi's 40 year dream. Not a metaphor just look at the terrifying daily footage. The sky above what is perhaps HaKirya, the IDF’s command headquarters, the nerve centre of this entire war is reportedly on fire. US military personnel are embedded in that complex. No confirmation yet of who was inside when the hypersonic hit. No clarification of exactly where in Tel Aviv this footage is from. CENTCOM isn’t saying but they never do. What they can’t hide is the sky, made into a permanent orange hellscape, literally hell on earth. 21 days in and Tel Aviv doesn’t have nights anymore, hellish orange flames that choke out the night. And the Iranian waves making it happen don't stop. The supreme theological achievement of 40 years of lobbying, blackmailing, and manipulating the most powerful country on earth and they're being defeated in spite of declaring victory from day 1 through day 10. Bibi lit this match. The orange sky over Tel Aviv is Bibi’s legacy along with the murdered women and children.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump stated that the US “knew nothing” about Israel’s strike on South Pars. By Thursday morning three Israeli officials told Reuters it was coordinated in advance. The NYT cited US officials saying Trump not only knew but “supported it as a message to Tehran over its block of the Strait of Hormuz.”  Then in the Oval Office Thursday he said “I told him don’t do that” in the same breath as “it’s coordinated.” One sentence, same Schrodinger's Trump. Why the public distance? Because the war that was “won on day ten” is now a $200 billion emergency request to Congress, a hypersonic missile over HaKirya, Ras Laffan burning, Kuwait’s refineries hit, and Brent approaching $120. Gulf Arab countries are seeking explanations from the White House.  The Apprentice declared victory through wave after wave... then Iran went from wave 37 to wave 65 and turned the whole Gulf and all of Israel into a target range. You don’t distance yourself from a war that’s going well. You take the credit. Trump apparently threatened to “massively blow up the entirety of South Pars”  if Qatar gets hit again. That’s not a man winning a war. The $200 billion is the humiliating admission. The denial is the tell. And that’s nothing compared to how this ends.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is A-10 Warthogs — Cold War tank-killers repurposed to strafe speedboats while truck-mounted cruise missile batteries remain dug into mountains they haven’t destroyed in three weeks, remote-detonated mines sit silently on the seabed, and the minesweepers that could actually clear them were moved out of the region before the first bomb dropped. They claim 120 Iranian vessels destroyed — Iran has thousands more in tunnels and islands specifically because they knew this day was coming, and a swarm designed for forty years to deny passage to the world’s greatest navy doesn’t die because a Warthog kills a fast boat. Their own experts told the WSJ l it will take weeks and you will never reach 100% safe passage through a 24-mile chokepoint where a single cruise missile fired from a hundred miles away can still find a supertanker and that was before Iran’s parliament started drafting a toll law to charge the world rent for waters Washington can’t take back. Three weeks in, $119 oil, 2,200 Marines improvising toward Iranian islands, and the most expensive military in human history is negotiating with a minefield it chose not to prepare for... because the people who planned this war planned 3 days of indiscriminate bombing, not the morning after. Forty years Iran prepared for this moment. Three weeks and the world’s wannabe superpower is improvising on how best to double down on the humiliation by going on as fish in a (24 mile wide) barrel. What more could possibly go wrong!

“There may be NO good airstrike option.” Andrea Stricker says the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility may be too deep to destroy from the air. “That could force a special forces operation — going inside the complex to eliminate it once the regime is further degraded.”