Some thoughts for the idiots who actually believe this.
31 thoughts on ““There Is No Plan””
Why would we ask our incompetent allies for their advice? We don’t want to lose..
I think rather the matter is the quality of the plan. “Going to the beach and having fun!” is a plan (I consider even a rudimentary listing of goals as a plan). And as long as you can take care of the problems on an ad hoc basis, like here, finding a place to stay or getting sun screen lotion, you don’t need a complex plan.
The problem here isn’t the pure absence of a plan, but the absence of key parts of planning for this war with Iran: such as weak war justifications, no serious exit strategy, and failure to anticipate enemy action.
On that last part, consider that the US didn’t have sufficient anti-drone and anti-rocket defenses in place, didn’t have the power in place at the start of the war to keep the Hormuz Strait clear, and now has mixed military-civilian targets because part of US military staff are working out of hotels. We have now global disruption of energy and chemical markets. That happened because the US didn’t expect Iran to attack and damage US bases nor close the Hormuz Strait.
Obviously, there was a plan. But the problems show that the planning was incompetent and chock full of wishful thinking about what the enemy would do.
Finally, consider what the author wrote:
Final note, as I have mentioned on recent episodes of the Midrats Podcast and elsewhere, I am standing by the marker I put down on March 2,
If this degenerates into another long, drawn-out conflict where we put boots on the ground, my opinion will change. If it drags on for weeks of diminishing returns, my opinion will change.
It’s been four weeks now with not much to show on the US side. When is he going to start standing by what he wrote?
It is important to note that we evacuated most of our personnel from areas in the countries that would be targets, leaving only the people needed. It was impossible to defend any one area 100% as Iran could choose to focus dps on any one of them. It was a calculated risk that was accepted.
We, along with our regional partners, have done a good job dealing with the missiles and drones but it was never without risk and we can’t ignore that Iran has/had capabilities.
With that in mind, we wouldn’t put ground forces in range of the Iranians, or our limited supply of minesweepers, as long as they would face too high of a risk. That more resources are moving in now shows planning, not a lack of it. One of our core strengths is logistics and we are using it to prevent Iran from having juicy targets while being able to move forward with objectives as conditions permit.
Trump Doctrine: Overwhelming use of military force for limited and defined objectives.
While I think there are some unstated strategic objectives, the stated ones are fairly clear. We have been steadily making progress.
It looks confusing on the outside because of strategic ambiguity. Are we going to land here or there? Are we going to send in paratroopers? Will there be convoys? A revolution? Kurds from Iraq? Those are all options. Some might happen, others not, and when things happen it will a surprise. This forces Iran to plan for many potential outcomes, spreading their resources and thought power.
Trump is keeping everyone off balance, shattering their OODA Loops. The cacophony of commentary plays into that due in large part to the Trump Effect: getting idiot leftists to help him achieve his goals just by being their true selves.
It is important to filter media while focusing on actions.
How it wraps up, I don’t know. There are a range of actions the administration would like to take with next best alternatives. But there are signs. Trump keeps saying that it is up to various countries to take initiative for their own welfare and not count on the USA to do everything for them.
With that in mind, we wouldn’t put ground forces in range of the Iranians, or our limited supply of minesweepers, as long as they would face too high of a risk. That more resources are moving in now shows planning, not a lack of it. One of our core strengths is logistics and we are using it to prevent Iran from having juicy targets while being able to move forward with objectives as conditions permit.
It would have shown much more planning if it were done before the attack rather than a month after and counting. Iran has blockaded the Hormuz Strait before (there’s a forty year history here). It’s one of their standard moves. And what is the limited supply of minesweepers for if not this?
Trump is keeping everyone off balance, shattering their OODA Loops. The cacophony of commentary plays into that due in large part to the Trump Effect: getting idiot leftists to help him achieve his goals just by being their true selves.
What’s his endgame here? Both Gandhi and Hitler did the inside the OODA loop thing too to different ends.
“It would have shown much more planning if it were done before”
No, it wouldn’t.
People would be complaining he put resources in range of Iranian missiles and drones, and they would have been.
“Iran has blockaded the Hormuz Strait before”
Yeah, that wasn’t ignored. The reality is that it can’t be opened until conditions permit and we couldn’t prevent them from closing it because we aren’t the X-Men or whatever fictional superheroes.
“What’s his endgame here?”
The administration has stated it many times, starting when we attacked Iran.
Personally, I think there are other unstated reasons but they are mostly a biproduct that may or may not happen and are not why we attacked Iran.
People would be complaining he put resources in range of Iranian missiles and drones, and they would have been.
Well, Trump already put resources in range with the air war. And the additional ones will happen anyway because the US will have to open the Hormuz Strait sooner or later. If it had been done sooner, then Iran wouldn’t have the opportunity to dig in for a month.
The obvious time to deal with the blockade was right when it happened. Iran would at its most ill-prepared. There will be no better time.
Yeah, that wasn’t ignored. The reality is that it can’t be opened until conditions permit and we couldn’t prevent them from closing it because we aren’t the X-Men or whatever fictional superheroes.
When will the conditions permit? Perhaps the Trump administration should have thought about the US not being the X-Men before the war rather than a month after?
The administration has stated it many times, starting when we attacked Iran.
The administration has stated a lot of stuff. Which of that is the actual endgame strategy?
My view is that not only was the war unjustified and poorly prosecuted, but Trump just handed a life preserver to the Iranian government. It’ll be years before they’ll return to the degree of instability of last year.
I recently ran across something interesting regarding the cost of chemicals. I use a lot of MSG in cooking, and have been buying it on Amazon in quantity because it’s much less expensive than in the grocery store. A week ago, I went to replenish my supply by buying a particular brand that is packaged conveniently for me, in 1.75 pound plastic bottles such as those Costco uses for their bulk herbs and spices. The last time I bought it, it was $7.50. When I went to Amazon, I was shocked to see that the same 1.75 pound bottle now costs something like $35. The same was true of every supplier of MSG, on a cost per ounce basis. I stumbled on a six-pack of the same 1.75 pound bottles for $45. There was one left, and I snapped it up immediately. I couldn’t imagine why the cost had skyrocketed so much. I still don’t know, because the price has since dropped to below what I paid for that six-pack (not much below, but below).
…Number 2, build up some delayed courage and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to learn to start fighting for yourself, the USA won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! – President DJT.
Given the current state of the UK Navy. They can’t. Rather than ships (of which they have few) maybe they could send over some of their 100 admirals to negotiate with the remnants of the Iranian goverment for passage “rights” through the Strait of Hormuz.
Perhaps instead of sending all of the admirals they just send the one from the HMS Pinafore….The Ruler of the Kings Navy!
Sounds like the UK has better mine sweeping capability than the US though.
The UK hauled their last minesweeper back from the ME (on a semi-submersible) earlier this year.
What we may have overlooked or not realized, after seeing the Iranian people marching by the millions a few months ago, is that as soon as we started blowing up their government and the IRGC, we removed the need for urgent action on their part.
Why would Iranians risk their lives to overthrow their government when we might end that government in a couple more days or weeks, without the protesters getting shot? If it’s like a domestic situation involving some neighborhood chaos, when the cops finally show up, there’s a natural inclination to let the police handle the situation instead of continuing to risk life and limb in some street fight.
So perhaps the Iranians aren’t going to rise up in any numbers while US combat operations are continuing. They might be waiting to see what’s left of the IRGC and the regime, and when we’re done, and then they’ll decide what their next steps are. But it’s also quite possible that the Mossad and key Iranian anti-regime people are executing a plan, and part of that plan is to not do anything during this bombing phase so that they don’t attrit their forces over weeks with lots of small, indecisive attacks that will fill Iranian jails with protesters, thus putting those jails off limits for later strikes against the regime’s control apparatus.
If the latter is true, going public with a story that JD Vance is ranting at Netanyahu about the Iranian people not rising up might be a very deliberate misdirection.
There have been a lot of statements telling the Iranian people to wait and there will be a clear signal when to act.
A revolution would force the IRGC out in the open and then phone a drone will become an even more powerful tool than it is now.
We have been very careful not to damage the things a future government would need to have to rebuild their country.
So the plan was to let the Israelis kill an 86-year-old that was already half a foot in the grave, while we took the opportunity to kill over 100 schoolgirls with our Precision Strike Missle in the first 24 hours. Let’s also not forget our great sinking of an underarmed boat with mostly members of a navy band on it returning home from a goodwill mission.
All caused the bombing this past summer didn’t stop the nuclear program that has been “hours from a nuclear bomb” for the past 30 years. Jeez, Obama’s evil, horrible, no-good deal kept the Iranians from a bomb by multiple orders of magnitude longer than the “Midnight Hammer” complete and utter obliteration did.
Though I suppose another reason could be the president encouraged protests by promising to protect them and threatened the leaders. Which he couldn’t follow through on in a timely manner due to having sent a naval carrier strike group with an Aegis Balistic Missle Defense umbrella to the Caribbean so they could destroy a few fishing boats and aid a foreign military coup and collect some oil shipment money to store in his personal Qatari bank account. While the brave dissidents who might have help overthrow the Iranian regime got slaughted by the thousands.
After getting drunk on such success with the Caribbean jaunt, knocking off a strongman and collecting the bribe from coup-d’état members. Decided they could repeat it with a regime that survived for 60 years and has been built around infrastructure to persist after changes of leadership and not a cult of personality.
Iran has set up a toll system along one of the most economically important choke points in the world. Have cost us an AWACS and at least 2 airborne tankers, destroyed a multi-billion dollar fixed ballistic radar position, and sent our troops in the theater out of the military bases to stay in hotels to be safe (talk about human shields). They have shipped more oil in the past few weeks than they had in the previous similar timeframe, while also enjoying a doubling of the price of oil. Have demonstrated still having the capability to destroy oil tankers in foreign ports, launching ballistic missiles at a range previously not known to be capable of.
Rand, shouldn’t you be sticking to your wheelhouse and railing about how the administration is about to set in motion a series of events that will kill 4 astronauts in about 11 days by your own formulation? Maybe due to the administration needing a distraction for starting a war without properly planning contingencies and potential secondary effects.
Just how stupid do you have to be to fantasize that either we or Israel deliberately targeted schoolgirls?
Oh, right.
I guess (as usual) we can ignore the rest of your keyboard diarrhea.
So I guess you admit their was no planning then if on the first day they hit two targets they didn’t intend to?
If not then how did two school buildings blow up Rand did our phenomaly accurate missles miss the target? How did two strike the aformentioned girls school?
We got a Frat boy running around as the Secretary of WAR , who toughts “maximal lethaltiy not tepid legality, Violent effect not polotically correct”. Who has purged the JAG offices, who knows what he has done to military iteligence and targeting offices that would work their hardest to prevent this kind of FUCK UP. YOU want to explain it ? or you going to just throw ad hominims at anyone who brings it up you ostrich.
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It must be such a wonderful feeling for you, to be both a moron AND and an asshole.I’m sorry for you (OK, not really) that we don’t bother to waste time or mental energy in feeding trolls at this site.
Why do you let Mr. Dimwit continue to post here? For laughs? I’m all for viewpoint diversity but the viewpoints need to have some relationship to reality.
How do you know that those buildings “blew up”, besides IRGC propaganda? Or that any of the details the IRGC have given out are accurate? Probably from the same sources that have reported oh so accurately on the so-called “genocide” in Gaza.
Obama’s “deal” gave them billions of dollars, let them continue enriching uranium, continue working on delivery systems, AND allowed them to have nuclear weapons after the deal expired in 2025.
Why didn’t Iran already have nukes? You need to look into stuxnet and all the other things we did to prevent that from happening.
Look at the Iranian response to our attack. Now imagine what would have happened if Trump didn’t take a month to move ships and missile defense in place and attacked them when Iran was slaughtering tens of thousands of protesters.
Rather than our troops being primary targets, this time the people on the front line were radar operators and airplanes.
We aren’t going to do this like we did in previous wars and things will happen as conditions permit. As it stands now, the only ships getting out are the ones we let out. The oil will flow. The current government of Iran wont control it.
Back in January 2023, IAEA inspectors took surface wipe samples of particles in the Fordow facility that proved to be 83.7% U-235. Little Boy used 80% (average). I know that Iran has been working on an implosion type device, but there’s no reason why they couldn’t have a gun assembly device as a backup. They have no reliable delivery system other than smuggling a bomb piecemeal into a target country, such as The Great Satan – it would have been relatively easy during the Biden years. There would be no need to do an all up test – we didn’t, because the nuclear part was assured of working. The only downside is that it takes more uranium than an implosion device would. I wonder if we didn’t get some intel that prompted us to attack…
I think it was that after Midnight Hammer, they immediately started rebuilding their program in a new location and were trying to dig out the places we hit.
Another example of planning ahead– Spain’s has just rebutted those smug leftists who said that we didn’t need to acquire Greenland, ’cause we already had bases there.
Even if some of all this seems random and unplanned, having a long term goal helps focus things.
(As for the Greenlanders, you’re too few and where you live is too important. At some point you’re gonna have to pick who you let dominate you, and right now the alternatives are the US, China and Russia. Europe? Hah! Should’ve pushed for a union with Iceland when you had the chance.
Choose wisely, and if you wait too long, the choice may be made for you and you may not like it.)
(As for the Greenlanders, you’re too few and where you live is too important. At some point you’re gonna have to pick who you let dominate you, and right now the alternatives are the US, China and Russia. Europe? Hah! Should’ve pushed for a union with Iceland when you had the chance.
The EU is the best option in the house. Greenland is already part of the EU via Denmark and things aren’t bad. Russia is a hollow empire – they’ll have to choose between Europe and China themselves!
China and the US both want Greenland for the military position and resources. China would be worse, of course. But why would Greenland switch to the US? US leadership has been very stochastic for some time not to mention the usual dishonesty. The EU is the devil they know.
My take is that this is a false dilemma. The EU has a strong hand while at least one of the other three does not. In a couple of decades, we’ll see who is still around. I think there will be a greater than 50% chance that Russia splits between European and Chinese-oriented factions. Even if the European faction is moderately hostile to the EU, that’s still a boost for the EU.
This will be critical times for all three other factions: US, EU, and China. All three have to avoid the Japanese sickness: three decades and counting of economic stagnation and avoid destruction by war. Who does the best job will probably end up on top.
Assuming arguendo that what you say is correct:
Greenland has a choice. Be Tibet, or be… Guam? Puerto Rico?
An American commonwealth would provide them with maximal freedom and protection.
Or they could be Greenland? Somehow you keep neglecting that choice.
Notice that the push for the independence of Greenland stopped.
Greenland was about to be spun out into the world on their own, like Chagos, and that will no longer be happening.
‘Manischewitz to bring Gefilte Fish to school cafeterias nationwide.’
Why would we ask our incompetent allies for their advice? We don’t want to lose..
I think rather the matter is the quality of the plan. “Going to the beach and having fun!” is a plan (I consider even a rudimentary listing of goals as a plan). And as long as you can take care of the problems on an ad hoc basis, like here, finding a place to stay or getting sun screen lotion, you don’t need a complex plan.
The problem here isn’t the pure absence of a plan, but the absence of key parts of planning for this war with Iran: such as weak war justifications, no serious exit strategy, and failure to anticipate enemy action.
On that last part, consider that the US didn’t have sufficient anti-drone and anti-rocket defenses in place, didn’t have the power in place at the start of the war to keep the Hormuz Strait clear, and now has mixed military-civilian targets because part of US military staff are working out of hotels. We have now global disruption of energy and chemical markets. That happened because the US didn’t expect Iran to attack and damage US bases nor close the Hormuz Strait.
Obviously, there was a plan. But the problems show that the planning was incompetent and chock full of wishful thinking about what the enemy would do.
Finally, consider what the author wrote:
It’s been four weeks now with not much to show on the US side. When is he going to start standing by what he wrote?
It is important to note that we evacuated most of our personnel from areas in the countries that would be targets, leaving only the people needed. It was impossible to defend any one area 100% as Iran could choose to focus dps on any one of them. It was a calculated risk that was accepted.
We, along with our regional partners, have done a good job dealing with the missiles and drones but it was never without risk and we can’t ignore that Iran has/had capabilities.
With that in mind, we wouldn’t put ground forces in range of the Iranians, or our limited supply of minesweepers, as long as they would face too high of a risk. That more resources are moving in now shows planning, not a lack of it. One of our core strengths is logistics and we are using it to prevent Iran from having juicy targets while being able to move forward with objectives as conditions permit.
Trump Doctrine: Overwhelming use of military force for limited and defined objectives.
While I think there are some unstated strategic objectives, the stated ones are fairly clear. We have been steadily making progress.
It looks confusing on the outside because of strategic ambiguity. Are we going to land here or there? Are we going to send in paratroopers? Will there be convoys? A revolution? Kurds from Iraq? Those are all options. Some might happen, others not, and when things happen it will a surprise. This forces Iran to plan for many potential outcomes, spreading their resources and thought power.
Trump is keeping everyone off balance, shattering their OODA Loops. The cacophony of commentary plays into that due in large part to the Trump Effect: getting idiot leftists to help him achieve his goals just by being their true selves.
It is important to filter media while focusing on actions.
How it wraps up, I don’t know. There are a range of actions the administration would like to take with next best alternatives. But there are signs. Trump keeps saying that it is up to various countries to take initiative for their own welfare and not count on the USA to do everything for them.
With that in mind, we wouldn’t put ground forces in range of the Iranians, or our limited supply of minesweepers, as long as they would face too high of a risk. That more resources are moving in now shows planning, not a lack of it. One of our core strengths is logistics and we are using it to prevent Iran from having juicy targets while being able to move forward with objectives as conditions permit.
It would have shown much more planning if it were done before the attack rather than a month after and counting. Iran has blockaded the Hormuz Strait before (there’s a forty year history here). It’s one of their standard moves. And what is the limited supply of minesweepers for if not this?
Trump is keeping everyone off balance, shattering their OODA Loops. The cacophony of commentary plays into that due in large part to the Trump Effect: getting idiot leftists to help him achieve his goals just by being their true selves.
What’s his endgame here? Both Gandhi and Hitler did the inside the OODA loop thing too to different ends.
“It would have shown much more planning if it were done before”
No, it wouldn’t.
People would be complaining he put resources in range of Iranian missiles and drones, and they would have been.
“Iran has blockaded the Hormuz Strait before”
Yeah, that wasn’t ignored. The reality is that it can’t be opened until conditions permit and we couldn’t prevent them from closing it because we aren’t the X-Men or whatever fictional superheroes.
“What’s his endgame here?”
The administration has stated it many times, starting when we attacked Iran.
Personally, I think there are other unstated reasons but they are mostly a biproduct that may or may not happen and are not why we attacked Iran.
People would be complaining he put resources in range of Iranian missiles and drones, and they would have been.
Well, Trump already put resources in range with the air war. And the additional ones will happen anyway because the US will have to open the Hormuz Strait sooner or later. If it had been done sooner, then Iran wouldn’t have the opportunity to dig in for a month.
The obvious time to deal with the blockade was right when it happened. Iran would at its most ill-prepared. There will be no better time.
Yeah, that wasn’t ignored. The reality is that it can’t be opened until conditions permit and we couldn’t prevent them from closing it because we aren’t the X-Men or whatever fictional superheroes.
When will the conditions permit? Perhaps the Trump administration should have thought about the US not being the X-Men before the war rather than a month after?
The administration has stated it many times, starting when we attacked Iran.
The administration has stated a lot of stuff. Which of that is the actual endgame strategy?
My view is that not only was the war unjustified and poorly prosecuted, but Trump just handed a life preserver to the Iranian government. It’ll be years before they’ll return to the degree of instability of last year.
I recently ran across something interesting regarding the cost of chemicals. I use a lot of MSG in cooking, and have been buying it on Amazon in quantity because it’s much less expensive than in the grocery store. A week ago, I went to replenish my supply by buying a particular brand that is packaged conveniently for me, in 1.75 pound plastic bottles such as those Costco uses for their bulk herbs and spices. The last time I bought it, it was $7.50. When I went to Amazon, I was shocked to see that the same 1.75 pound bottle now costs something like $35. The same was true of every supplier of MSG, on a cost per ounce basis. I stumbled on a six-pack of the same 1.75 pound bottles for $45. There was one left, and I snapped it up immediately. I couldn’t imagine why the cost had skyrocketed so much. I still don’t know, because the price has since dropped to below what I paid for that six-pack (not much below, but below).
…Number 2, build up some delayed courage and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to learn to start fighting for yourself, the USA won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! – President DJT.
Given the current state of the UK Navy. They can’t. Rather than ships (of which they have few) maybe they could send over some of their 100 admirals to negotiate with the remnants of the Iranian goverment for passage “rights” through the Strait of Hormuz.
Perhaps instead of sending all of the admirals they just send the one from the HMS Pinafore….The Ruler of the Kings Navy!
Sounds like the UK has better mine sweeping capability than the US though.
The UK hauled their last minesweeper back from the ME (on a semi-submersible) earlier this year.
Their last minesweeper of a forty year old class. They have in service a minesweeping drones that can be used from a variety of ships.
What we may have overlooked or not realized, after seeing the Iranian people marching by the millions a few months ago, is that as soon as we started blowing up their government and the IRGC, we removed the need for urgent action on their part.
Why would Iranians risk their lives to overthrow their government when we might end that government in a couple more days or weeks, without the protesters getting shot? If it’s like a domestic situation involving some neighborhood chaos, when the cops finally show up, there’s a natural inclination to let the police handle the situation instead of continuing to risk life and limb in some street fight.
So perhaps the Iranians aren’t going to rise up in any numbers while US combat operations are continuing. They might be waiting to see what’s left of the IRGC and the regime, and when we’re done, and then they’ll decide what their next steps are. But it’s also quite possible that the Mossad and key Iranian anti-regime people are executing a plan, and part of that plan is to not do anything during this bombing phase so that they don’t attrit their forces over weeks with lots of small, indecisive attacks that will fill Iranian jails with protesters, thus putting those jails off limits for later strikes against the regime’s control apparatus.
If the latter is true, going public with a story that JD Vance is ranting at Netanyahu about the Iranian people not rising up might be a very deliberate misdirection.
There have been a lot of statements telling the Iranian people to wait and there will be a clear signal when to act.
A revolution would force the IRGC out in the open and then phone a drone will become an even more powerful tool than it is now.
We have been very careful not to damage the things a future government would need to have to rebuild their country.
So the plan was to let the Israelis kill an 86-year-old that was already half a foot in the grave, while we took the opportunity to kill over 100 schoolgirls with our Precision Strike Missle in the first 24 hours. Let’s also not forget our great sinking of an underarmed boat with mostly members of a navy band on it returning home from a goodwill mission.
All caused the bombing this past summer didn’t stop the nuclear program that has been “hours from a nuclear bomb” for the past 30 years. Jeez, Obama’s evil, horrible, no-good deal kept the Iranians from a bomb by multiple orders of magnitude longer than the “Midnight Hammer” complete and utter obliteration did.
Though I suppose another reason could be the president encouraged protests by promising to protect them and threatened the leaders. Which he couldn’t follow through on in a timely manner due to having sent a naval carrier strike group with an Aegis Balistic Missle Defense umbrella to the Caribbean so they could destroy a few fishing boats and aid a foreign military coup and collect some oil shipment money to store in his personal Qatari bank account. While the brave dissidents who might have help overthrow the Iranian regime got slaughted by the thousands.
After getting drunk on such success with the Caribbean jaunt, knocking off a strongman and collecting the bribe from coup-d’état members. Decided they could repeat it with a regime that survived for 60 years and has been built around infrastructure to persist after changes of leadership and not a cult of personality.
Iran has set up a toll system along one of the most economically important choke points in the world. Have cost us an AWACS and at least 2 airborne tankers, destroyed a multi-billion dollar fixed ballistic radar position, and sent our troops in the theater out of the military bases to stay in hotels to be safe (talk about human shields). They have shipped more oil in the past few weeks than they had in the previous similar timeframe, while also enjoying a doubling of the price of oil. Have demonstrated still having the capability to destroy oil tankers in foreign ports, launching ballistic missiles at a range previously not known to be capable of.
Rand, shouldn’t you be sticking to your wheelhouse and railing about how the administration is about to set in motion a series of events that will kill 4 astronauts in about 11 days by your own formulation? Maybe due to the administration needing a distraction for starting a war without properly planning contingencies and potential secondary effects.
Just how stupid do you have to be to fantasize that either we or Israel deliberately targeted schoolgirls?
Oh, right.
I guess (as usual) we can ignore the rest of your keyboard diarrhea.
So I guess you admit their was no planning then if on the first day they hit two targets they didn’t intend to?
If not then how did two school buildings blow up Rand did our phenomaly accurate missles miss the target? How did two strike the aformentioned girls school?
We got a Frat boy running around as the Secretary of WAR , who toughts “maximal lethaltiy not tepid legality, Violent effect not polotically correct”. Who has purged the JAG offices, who knows what he has done to military iteligence and targeting offices that would work their hardest to prevent this kind of FUCK UP. YOU want to explain it ? or you going to just throw ad hominims at anyone who brings it up you ostrich.
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It must be such a wonderful feeling for you, to be both a moron AND and an asshole.I’m sorry for you (OK, not really) that we don’t bother to waste time or mental energy in feeding trolls at this site.
Why do you let Mr. Dimwit continue to post here? For laughs? I’m all for viewpoint diversity but the viewpoints need to have some relationship to reality.
How do you know that those buildings “blew up”, besides IRGC propaganda? Or that any of the details the IRGC have given out are accurate? Probably from the same sources that have reported oh so accurately on the so-called “genocide” in Gaza.
Obama’s “deal” gave them billions of dollars, let them continue enriching uranium, continue working on delivery systems, AND allowed them to have nuclear weapons after the deal expired in 2025.
Why didn’t Iran already have nukes? You need to look into stuxnet and all the other things we did to prevent that from happening.
Look at the Iranian response to our attack. Now imagine what would have happened if Trump didn’t take a month to move ships and missile defense in place and attacked them when Iran was slaughtering tens of thousands of protesters.
Rather than our troops being primary targets, this time the people on the front line were radar operators and airplanes.
We aren’t going to do this like we did in previous wars and things will happen as conditions permit. As it stands now, the only ships getting out are the ones we let out. The oil will flow. The current government of Iran wont control it.
Back in January 2023, IAEA inspectors took surface wipe samples of particles in the Fordow facility that proved to be 83.7% U-235. Little Boy used 80% (average). I know that Iran has been working on an implosion type device, but there’s no reason why they couldn’t have a gun assembly device as a backup. They have no reliable delivery system other than smuggling a bomb piecemeal into a target country, such as The Great Satan – it would have been relatively easy during the Biden years. There would be no need to do an all up test – we didn’t, because the nuclear part was assured of working. The only downside is that it takes more uranium than an implosion device would. I wonder if we didn’t get some intel that prompted us to attack…
I think it was that after Midnight Hammer, they immediately started rebuilding their program in a new location and were trying to dig out the places we hit.
Another example of planning ahead– Spain’s has just rebutted those smug leftists who said that we didn’t need to acquire Greenland, ’cause we already had bases there.
Even if some of all this seems random and unplanned, having a long term goal helps focus things.
(As for the Greenlanders, you’re too few and where you live is too important. At some point you’re gonna have to pick who you let dominate you, and right now the alternatives are the US, China and Russia. Europe? Hah! Should’ve pushed for a union with Iceland when you had the chance.
Choose wisely, and if you wait too long, the choice may be made for you and you may not like it.)
(As for the Greenlanders, you’re too few and where you live is too important. At some point you’re gonna have to pick who you let dominate you, and right now the alternatives are the US, China and Russia. Europe? Hah! Should’ve pushed for a union with Iceland when you had the chance.
The EU is the best option in the house. Greenland is already part of the EU via Denmark and things aren’t bad. Russia is a hollow empire – they’ll have to choose between Europe and China themselves!
China and the US both want Greenland for the military position and resources. China would be worse, of course. But why would Greenland switch to the US? US leadership has been very stochastic for some time not to mention the usual dishonesty. The EU is the devil they know.
My take is that this is a false dilemma. The EU has a strong hand while at least one of the other three does not. In a couple of decades, we’ll see who is still around. I think there will be a greater than 50% chance that Russia splits between European and Chinese-oriented factions. Even if the European faction is moderately hostile to the EU, that’s still a boost for the EU.
This will be critical times for all three other factions: US, EU, and China. All three have to avoid the Japanese sickness: three decades and counting of economic stagnation and avoid destruction by war. Who does the best job will probably end up on top.
Assuming arguendo that what you say is correct:
Greenland has a choice. Be Tibet, or be… Guam? Puerto Rico?
An American commonwealth would provide them with maximal freedom and protection.
Or they could be Greenland? Somehow you keep neglecting that choice.
Notice that the push for the independence of Greenland stopped.
Greenland was about to be spun out into the world on their own, like Chagos, and that will no longer be happening.
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What’s next . . . lutefisk?