US Perspective on the Iran - Israel / US War

[j_hungary]

Who is in charge in Iran is not important. Its policies in the region going forward are what matter the most.

The problem is, as Joe Kent (the ousted NCC director) put it, they killed the leadership structure only to be replaced by Iran with a more hardline group, I think he said on a show with Shawn Ryan that it's now basically IRGC in charge of Iran.

And I don't like Joe Kent to begin with, and he's right.

 

[EugeneP]

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One year on from "Liberation Day," Trump’s tariffs have altered supply chains — just not in the way he envisioned.

A Bloomberg analysis of shipment-level customs data shows a shift in manufacturing toward Vietnam, with the country last year surpassing China as the leading supplier to the US of laptops and game consoles for the first time. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4bVVFaW

Not sure why it is bad. Diversifying is always good. From One big pile, I see 3 smaller piles in a year. May be in 10 years there will be 5 or 10 piles. More the better.

 

[EugeneP]

The President of Iran has not changed at all since the start of the war. There is "no new President of Iran!!". Shows how clueless Trump is, and how gullible Americans are to believe anything coming out of Trumps mouth.

I think he meant the Supreme leader, from Khamenei to Junior, who seems to be a virtual leader. Is the President of Iran a rubber stamp position? Can he make decisions if the Supreme leader is injured or sick?

 

[Fatman17]

More than a month into the war in Iran, President Trump gave a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday to make the case for why he believes the conflict is necessary.

In a 19-minute speech from the White House, Trump said Iran’s missiles and drone systems have been “dramatically curtailed and their weapons factories and rocket launches are being blown to pieces.” He described the military action as a major success and called on Americans, who are uneasy about its costs, to keep things in perspective. He estimated that the war should wind down within three weeks.

https://trib.al/aRth8T6

 

[Fatman17]

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[Fatman17]

Democrat Chances of Sweeping House, Senate and Presidency Hit All-Time High​

 

[RescueRanger]

Interesting noise on the old HFGCS. Skyking airborne again... Another missile test?

 

[RescueRanger]

Interesting dynamics at play:

It seems all weapons and armament are flown into TelAviv / CENTCOM AOR bypassing European Airspace.

As you can see with this C17 from CONUSA to Telaviv.[1]

Coronets from Fairford East to CENTCOM likely meet up with crew from Ramstine /Poland onward to theater.[2]

UK still seems to allow resupply at Fairford and Maindenhall where US bombers and USMC are stationed as part of US Special Forces in Europe. [4]

Interestingly there have been USAf C17s flying from TelAviv to Bulgaria. ( Likely a secondary resupply line). [3]


Tankers continue to stage over TelAviv and Jordanian airspace before moving deeper into Iraq/ME.

 

[j_hungary]

Interesting noise on the old HFGCS. Skyking airborne again... Another missile test?

With Trump? It could be looking glass............we don't know.....no one knows, I think he don't know either.......That way it can maintain absolute strategic ambiguity LOL

 

[RescueRanger]

With Trump? It could be looking glass............we don't know.....no one knows, I think he don't know either.......

Haha so true.

 

[j_hungary]

Haha so true.

lol, I think probably only you and me here understand this joke......

If you (Talking to other folks here) don't understand the joke. Here's another one.

Trump looks at a red button and says, "What's that?"

And only one way to find out.......

LOL

 

[ShapurII]

The President of Iran has not changed at all since the start of the war. There is "no new President of Iran!!". Shows how clueless Trump is, and how gullible Americans are to believe anything coming out of Trumps mouth.

His sentence is even more delusional. He's saying Iran's new regime president, meaning that this is the president is of a new regime in Iran. It's just hilarious.
I doubt that even the MAGA crowd is stupid enough to buy this.

The best I can tell, and am willing to be proven wrong, is with the elimination of much of the leadership, the IRGC is actually in charge. Any "President" as well as the junior Ayatollah, are simply public figureheads at best.

You are absolutely right.
Maybe Trump is right in a sense. There's a new regime in Iran. It's the regime of the IRGC, i.e. a military system of governance with even more anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments.

 

[ShapurII]

Pixelated photos. Worthless.

They pixelate the photos because the Iranian security apparatus has started arresting people who share videos of explosions. They don't want their location to be found based on the nearby buildings in the photo.

 

[mythbuster]

April 6 deadline is not a joke don't take it lightly.

 

[Ali_Baba]

April 6 deadline is not a joke don't take it lightly.

April 6, means that new operations will start after close of trading today, as Markets will be closed tomorrow ( 3 day long weekend ).