♦️ عـــجــيــب !
🔺️بعدما قصفت إيران المركز السري للاستمطار وسحب السُحب والضباب والرادارات في الإمارات ..
فجأة
▪️تغير المناخ في العراق وإيران، وصار في كل أسبوع مطر، وتغيرت درجات الحرارة بشكل كبير بحيث الفرق هو ٥ درجات، وهذا رقم كبير جداً.
▪️رجعت الفيضات بإيران بعدما كانت تعاني من جفاف كبير جداً ، بحيث كانت الحكومة الإيرانية تفكر بنقل العاصمة الإيرانية من طهران الى جنوب ايران بسبب الجفاف.
▪️كان هدف هذا المركز هو القضاء على القطاع الزراعي في إيران والعراق مما يسبب القضاء على الثروة الحيوانية، وكذلك التسبب بكارثة جفاف وتصحر .
▪️الإعراب أشد كفراً ونفاقاً .......
What no one understands about the Islamic Republic of Iran is that they are not fighting for territory or even resources (or even victory).
The Islamic Republic is fighting for MEANING.
Because the West is spiritually bankrupt, it completely misunderstood the enemy it was fighting in Tehran. Meaning, spiritual certitude of the kind that possesses the minds of Iran's ruling elite, is lost upon the materialists in Washington.
As such, the American Empire completely misunderstood its foe. That is why it cannot seem to "win" this fight, despite possessing such awesome military power and financial tools (on paper).
You cannot defeat a foe who believes in the spiritual forces that the Islamists of Iran do. No amount of bullets or bombs can change that. Kill them. Destroy their infrastructure. Impoverish them.
But you can't beat them.
Just ask the Taliban. Or the Houthis. Or even al Qaeda/ISIS, who now have one of their own as the US-backed president of Syria.
The American Empire relied upon fear to enforce its will upon the world, notably in the Middle East. Sadly for the Empire, fear (like the US dollar) devalues the more it is issued.
Until we abandon our predictable, materialistic ways and reassess our overall strategy, the United States will NEVER succeed in any of its endeavors in the Sandbox.
As Trump’s team are finding, Iranian officials are hard to negotiate with. Just when you think you’ve nailed them down, they twist and turn and you’ve got nothing. Professional US negotiators have found them hard to deal with. The current US team is finding it a lot harder.
US B-52 Stratofortress bombers left the airspace of the United Kingdom about an hour ago. Flight time suggests they'd be within firing range of Iranian airspace by 8pm Eastern tonight. Don't know if this is just movement to the Midda ast, if this is flexing by Trump, or if this is the real thing yet.
URGENT: CENTCOM released video showing the USS Spruance intercepting the vessel Touska in the Northern Arabian Sea. After warning the crew to leave the engine room, the destroyer fired its 5-inch deck gun three times.
@krassenstein For the third time, Donald Trump and Israel have managed to trick the Iranians under the guise of false negotiations.
Or it's possible that Trump doesn't know what he is doing.
BREAKING: Iran has reportedly rejected taking part in the latest talks.
It's my guess that they caught on to the fact that Trump is not serious and is likely using the ceasefire to try and track movements within the IRGC and Iranian government so that they cantarget them as soon as fighting sparks up again.
Those who sold oil or bought stocks likely fell into another trap. I hope I'm wrong.
@mholtzBrass@joekent16jan19 Lol! What did you get the idea Iran will disarm while we attacking their civilian & military targets! Many of are thinking like deranged figure in the White House. Doubling on loses!.
Mr. Kent - I don't expect you to read this or respond, but I will share this throught regardless.
Unfortunately I cannot accept your alternatives nor take them seriously considering your turncoat history.
Based on your perspective (in this posting and past podcast interviews), it appears to me you are looking at the media perspective on the war, that we are there to disarm Iran and replace its leadership, rather than a broader and alternative perspective on why this is happening.
Certainly you are intelligent enough to consider the motiviations behind the US presence in Iran are much, much broader and equally clever in nature.
POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation.
There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave.
The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region.
A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached.
A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible.
If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now.
Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.
@joekent16jan19 Trump does not even listen to his intelligence briefing, so why makes to listen to you. He would double down on failure & then blame others for his failure!
هذا ما قلته لرويترز اليوم: لم تعد الامارات بحاجة لأمريكا كي تدافع عنها فقد اكدت خلال العدوان الإيراني انها قادرة الدفاع عن نفسها بجدارة، ما تحتاجه الإمارات هو اقتناء افضل وأحدث ما لدى امريكا من اسلحة فقط لذلك حان وقت التفكير في اغلاق القواعد الأمريكية فهي عبء وليس رصيد استراتيجي
"...We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY..." - President Donald J. Trump
Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, according to a WSJ report.
jpost.com/international/…
The issue is not whether anyone does or does not like Israel. The profoundly important question is: whose interests are OUR country following, America’s or the leader of another country?
I don’t know anyone that questions Israeli bravery or that they are tough fighters. But fighting a war for Israel is not in America’s interest, and having them constantly sabotage our efforts to reach an end to the Iran war is decidedly anti-American.
Again we have to ask: whose size is President Trump on? Evidence indicates it’s not America first.
Russian electronic warfare interference disrupted the guidance of U.S.-made GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB I), causing both munitions to miss their intended targets.
President Trump today convened a “war cabinet” meeting in the White House to consider what happens next week when the current cease-fire expires next Wednesday morning.
What he should conclude is that this “excursion“ was a dramatic mistake, and recognize that the objective of defeating Iran militarily is not possible with the troops we have allocated and the time we have available, and instead of proving that by trying to restart the war, he should admit the plan didn’t work, and seek to extricate the US as quickly as possible at the lowest possible cost.
It is crucial to understand where we are at this point and how we got here:
Prior to choosing to start this war w Iran, there was no threat to the United States, imminent or otherwise.
They were not two weeks from a nuclear bomb, and they had made no move to build one.
The Strait of Hormuz was open and free and unfettered, and about 19 million barrels of oil and all other commodities were flowing freely and without encumbrance, every day.
All American troops in the region were alive and well.
All of our bases were fully operational and unscathed.
24 MQ9 reaper drones were still in our possession, and 13 combat aircraft were still fully functional, and no planes had been shot out of the sky.
The price of oil was a little over $60 a barrel, and every reason to think that it would remain stable at that price.
Our regional allies we’re still whole and protected.
Now none of those things are true now.
The cost has been profound for a war that should never have been started, and it was clear to anyone willing to see the reality that we would end up in a place like this.
And now, it is equally clear that to restart this war by choice, will only deepen all of the costs that we’ve already had imposed upon us, likely more death and destruction for America and its allies, and an even graver interruption of global oil supplies.
And we still will not have control of the Strait, and will be facing a strategic and then military defeat at the hands of someone smaller and much weaker than us.
The only way we could ever lose a war to Iran is if we started one. And now here we are staring defeating the face bc of that bad choice.
The only question now, how much deeper with the cost be to America and our allies if we refuse to learn the previous lessons, and arrogantly go forth, trying to win again with the military.
How many more Americans will have to die to prove what is already self evident?