US-Iran War Mudpit Thread

[Astyanax]

Money at Iran didn’t work.  We didn’t buy friends.  So here we are after Iran started attacking free shipping and supporting terrorism.  Like it or not, Iran was at jihad with the west.

Ooh, clever run-on from one quoted word of my post. You literary acrobat, you, well done. And how long has the US been interfering with Iranian affairs, then?

[Thetruth]

I'm sure there is somebody else closer to home on the tip of my tongue...

Does the name begin with a T and do they have a cult of brainless followers who have made cognitive disodence an art form?

[Oldcarpy2]

Does the name begin with a T and do they have a cult of brainless followers who have made cognitive disodence an art form?

Ding! Ding!  We have a winner.

[putnam6]

There are so many overarching, intertwined theories out there 


as we have a

Exoatmospheric interception. Aka intercepted in the space

 
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James E. Thorne

@DrJStrategy




For the record. Trump’s Iran Gambit and the New Great Game Donald Trump’s Iran war is not really about Iran. It is a live‑fire demonstration for a larger audience: China, Europe and every state that still depends on U.S.‑policed sea lanes and dollar finance. Trump’s Art of the Deal meets Kipling’s Kim: transactional brinkmanship fused with a ruthless sense of the Great Game. His coercive sequencing with Tehran – pressure, “winding down”, peace feelers, a 48‑hour ultimatum on Hormuz, threats to “obliterate” power plants – is meant to show that the U.S. can still dominate escalation ladders in a critical energy theatre. Iran’s new 4,000km missile, capable of reaching European capitals, only vindicates his argument that this is not a local irritant but a system‑level threat. Europe’s instinct to respond with process and paper echoes Chamberlain more than Churchill. The real inflection point is what happens if Iran can no longer serve as a staging ground or energy back door for China. If crude again clears overwhelmingly in dollars, and Washington effectively controls the main flows out of the Gulf. The geometry between the U.S. and China changes dramatically. Beijing would face a world where its industrial lifeblood remains hostage not to “multipolarity” but to American tolerance. Gulf monarchies are already betting on this outcome, distancing from Tehran while recommitting long‑horizon capital to the U.S. That is not sentiment; it is positioning for a system in which American security guarantees and dollar energy are, once more, the only game that really counts. If President Trump holds his nerve, IMHO he will, Iran is boxed in rather than appeased, the peace dividend will be akin to the fall of the USSR. State sponsored terrorism take a significant hit, cheaper and more predictable energy, risk premia declines, and a strategic map in which China must live inside an order Trump has just proved Washington can still enforce. Yes, Iran is a sideshow. And yes, The Great Game evolves.
 

[DBCowboy]

NK and Russia seem not too fragile?

Yet.

[Oldcarpy2]

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There are so many overarching, intertwined theories out there 

Where can I get those rose tinted glasses of yours?

[Oldcarpy2]

Yet.

I can't see them going pop anytime soon given Trump's admiration and bromance with Lil Kim and Putin.

[DBCowboy]

I can't see them going pop anytime soon given Trump's admiration and bromance with Lil Kim and Putin.

NK has China, but China depended on  Iran.

Ever play dominoes?

[andy06shake]

Yet.

Where NK is concerned, it's super risky to organise anything.

The borders are locked down, tight as shi@e.

And people barely able to see how other countries function or exist.
 
Revolution is possible.

But it's highly unlikely.

[Oldcarpy2]

NK has China, but China depended on  Iran.

Ever play dominoes?

Depended on Iran for what?

NK has nukes.