US Perspective on the Iran - Israel / US War

[Shags101]

That oil is not coming to the US. Rather, it is going to Asian markets.

In the US, depletion of the SPR is due to demand overseas as well as try to keep US gasoline and diesel prices low.

Sometime today, I will finally get around to updating my fuel logs and will report what the cost of fuel was for my trip back to Ohio.

I’m from Akron not bragging just stating a fact nobody brags about being from ohio Colombus is nice Dayton isn’t to bad

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I’m from Akron not bragging just stating a fact nobody brags about being from ohio Colombus is nice Dayton isn’t to bad

I spent a lot of time in Akron and Canton as a kid and again with DHL. We opened a new warehouse in Stowe and then moved into a bigger one about a mile or two away.

Columbus is ok. The only reason I go to Dayton is to visit the National Museum of the US Air Force.

I was born and raised in Erie.

 

[ghazi52]

Iran, US make competing claims over control of Strait of Hormuz​

• 'Today you see that the Strait of Hormuz is under the management and control of the Islamic Republic,' Taeb says

August 13, 2026
Reuters

DUBAI: The Strait of Hormuz is “under Iran’s control and management”, the recently appointed head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary unit said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States had “total control” of the strategic waterway.

Hossein Taeb said the U.S. had sought to disrupt what he described as the Islamic Republic’s popularity in the region by launching another war in the Strait of Hormuz, but had once more been defeated despite claiming Iran had neither an air force nor a navy.

“Today you see that the Strait of Hormuz is under the management and control of the Islamic Republic,” Taeb said, according to the semi-official Fars news. He added that Iran was continuing on its course in complete security.

After the start of the war, which began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, Tehran effectively shut the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas was previously shipped.

The U.S. subsequently imposed a naval blockade on Iranian shipping and ports, while saying it would protect freedom of navigation for vessels travelling to and from non-Iranian ports.

 

[Pakistani Dragon]

Hey you brought up the rise of costs while your parroting how the strait is open ...

I have not.

... and Iran has been ineffective ...

Pathetic to be honest.

... don’t post articles that make the other side of the debate look right ...

The other side in my opinion is about using alternative avenues.

• Overland pipelines
• Underground pipelines
• Under-the-sea pipelines
• Suez Canal route
• Red Sea ports
• Mediterranean ports
• Gulf of Oman ports
• Russian oil exports
• American oil exports
• African oil exports
• Storage facilities outside of Middle East
• New terminals in Asia and Africa

The list is long, and this is the new reality. The modern world moves very fast.

The world got used to living with tuberculosis and it has also adapted to living with Covid-19.

... safe bets are FOX News,Newsmax and Washington examiner are safe bets

Last night we had fun and enjoyed a fairly good amount of conversation eeeehhh lasted 24 hours night

I'm not sure what you're talking about.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Tehran's Houthi Proxies Attack Saudi Aramco Again, Crude Spikes, As Iran's Military Command To Be 'More Aggressive'​

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also chimed on in on Thursday with a similar theme of Washington miscalculation. He asserted that the United States has "has long miscalculated due to intelligence failures," especially when launching its war on Iran.

American military actions in the Strait of Hormuz were "an even bigger miscalculation," Araghchi stated on X. "Worse than fake news is fake intelligence," the foreign minister said, perhaps in mockery of Trump.

Tehran's Houthi Proxies Attack Saudi Aramco Again, Crude Spikes, As Iran's Military Command To Be 'More Aggressive'<!-- --> | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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[Davey Crockett]

Trump orders Bessent to cripple Iran’s economy​

Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in almost every move he has made to bring the war with Iran to a close.

A sustained bombing campaign didn't work. Neither did threats to wipe out Tehran's entire civilisation or its energy infrastructure.

The US president is stuck, leading Republicans into the midterms weighed down by a Middle Eastern conflict of his own making, despite campaigning to end foreign wars.

Reluctant to resume all-out war, and apparently without the resources to do so, he has turned to one man to drag the Americans out of the quagmire: Scott Bessent.


Mr Trump has settled on a fresh strategy of economic pressure in the hopes of loosening Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz and forcing its leaders to agree to a nuclear agreement, a source close to the president told The Telegraph.

Overseen by Mr Bessent, the treasury secretary, the wait-and-see approach will give harsh sanctions and the US naval blockade of Iranian ports time to inflict economic harm and cripple the regime, insiders say.

Donald Trump is now looking to his treasury secretary Scott Bessent (second from right) to bring Iran to heel - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

A source close to Mr Trump said: "It's been turned over to Bessent. Let him off the chain; he will destroy their currency."

Aides are reported to have pushed the strategy by showing the president statistics on the crippling effects the current sanctions levelled on Iran are having.

US sanctions have choked Iran's economy, driving the Iranian rial into free fall and accelerating triple-digit inflation. Red meat prices have tripled and fuel is rationed at the pumps.

They believe that tightening those current restrictions while issuing fresh curbs would "squeeze" the regime, forcing it to eventually make a deal to prevent total collapse.

Trump orders Bessent to cripple Iran’s economy

Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in almost every move he has made to bring the war with Iran to a close.

www.yahoo.com

 

[The SC]

U.S. Central Command: We announce efforts to form the first multi-domain, multinational force for offensive dronesU.S. Central Command: The unit is named Task Force Falcon Strike and will use one-way attack drones
Commander of U.S. Central Command: We will integrate our capabilities with Falcon Strike and deploy it jointly with our regional allies.

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[AZ_HighCountry]

Trump orders Bessent to cripple Iran’s economy​

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Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in almost every move he has made to bring the war with Iran to a close.

A sustained bombing campaign didn't work. Neither did threats to wipe out Tehran's entire civilisation or its energy infrastructure.

The US president is stuck, leading Republicans into the midterms weighed down by a Middle Eastern conflict of his own making, despite campaigning to end foreign wars.

Reluctant to resume all-out war, and apparently without the resources to do so, he has turned to one man to drag the Americans out of the quagmire: Scott Bessent.


Mr Trump has settled on a fresh strategy of economic pressure in the hopes of loosening Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz and forcing its leaders to agree to a nuclear agreement, a source close to the president told The Telegraph.

Overseen by Mr Bessent, the treasury secretary, the wait-and-see approach will give harsh sanctions and the US naval blockade of Iranian ports time to inflict economic harm and cripple the regime, insiders say.

Donald Trump is now looking to his treasury secretary Scott Bessent (second from right) to bring Iran to heel - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

A source close to Mr Trump said: "It's been turned over to Bessent. Let him off the chain; he will destroy their currency."

Aides are reported to have pushed the strategy by showing the president statistics on the crippling effects the current sanctions levelled on Iran are having.

US sanctions have choked Iran's economy, driving the Iranian rial into free fall and accelerating triple-digit inflation. Red meat prices have tripled and fuel is rationed at the pumps.

They believe that tightening those current restrictions while issuing fresh curbs would "squeeze" the regime, forcing it to eventually make a deal to prevent total collapse.

Trump orders Bessent to cripple Iran’s economy

Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in almost every move he has made to bring the war with Iran to a close.

www.yahoo.com

What is left to cripple other than their will to fight?

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

U.S. Central Command: We announce efforts to form the first multi-domain, multinational force for offensive dronesU.S. Central Command: The unit is named Task Force Falcon Strike and will use one-way attack drones
Commander of U.S. Central Command: We will integrate our capabilities with Falcon Strike and deploy it jointly with our regional allies.

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Little late for coalition building (other than Israel).

 

[Davey Crockett]

What is left to cripple other than their will to fight?

Exactly.

(.....need to find something I posted long ago.....)

 

[Davey Crockett]

A brief history of Islam in America

Islam’s roots in America go back to the Founding Fathers.

"The Founders of this nation explicitly included Islam in their vision of the future of the republic. Freedom of religion, as they conceived it, encompassed it," explains James H. Hutson, the chief of the Manuscript Division of the US Library of Congress.



Frieze depicting Mohammed in the United States Supreme Court.

There is even a bas-relief statue of the Prophet Mohammed on the north wall of US Supreme Court that, while constructed in 1935, deliberately harks back to much earlier roots. As noted by scholar Timothy Marr in his book The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism, the "larger-than-life representation of the Prophet Muhammad" is situated "between Charlemagne and Justinian as one of eighteen great law givers of history."

A brief history of Islam in America

Islam’s roots in America go back to the Founding Fathers.

www.vox.com

 

[Shags101]

I spent a lot of time in Akron and Canton as a kid and again with DHL. We opened a new warehouse in Stowe and then moved into a bigger one about a mile or two away.

Columbus is ok. The only reason I go to Dayton is to visit the National Museum of the US Air Force.

I was born and raised in Erie.

Last one cedar point…..only actually good memory I have of Ohio canton only thing I remember of that was my aunts hometown and the only thing I remember was the well water and it smelled horrible

 

[Shags101]

I have not.


Pathetic to be honest.


The other side in my opinion is about using alternative avenues.

• Overland pipelines
• Underground pipelines
• Under-the-sea pipelines
• Suez Canal route
• Red Sea ports
• Mediterranean ports
• Gulf of Oman ports
• Russian oil exports
• American oil exports
• African oil exports
• Storage facilities outside of Middle East
• New terminals in Asia and Africa

The list is long, and this is the new reality. The modern world moves very fast.

The world got used to living with tuberculosis and it has also adapted to living with Covid-19.


I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Oh might have been in the midterms to be fair……was fun John Rambo and the Wolverines were there and a chick named Jennifer grey so sexy for her generation have a sense of humor your a bit uptight my friend for no reason

 

[Davey Crockett]

Last one cedar point…..only actually good memory I have of Ohio canton only thing I remember of that was my aunts hometown and the only thing I remember was the well water and it smelled horrible

Cedar Point at least once every summer when I was growing up.

You visited Canton Ohio and did not visit the NFL hall of fame.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Cedar Point at least once every summer when I was growing up.

You visited Canton Ohio and did not visit the NFL hall of fame.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is better.