The US is reportedly preparing to send three more warships and thousands more troops to the Middle East, as Donald Trump called Nato allies “cowards” for not wanting to “help open” the strait of Hormuz, and while fears of the economic damage of the US-Israeli war on Iran continued to grow.

The US is reportedly considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s strategically crucial Kharg Island to pressure Tehran to reopen the strait.

The reports from US media organisations emerged as Iran’s military threatened it would “hunt down” officials and military commanders from the US and Israel wherever it could find them in the world, including at tourist destinations.

  • joekar1990@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    So…is this winning? I thought Iran didn’t have a navy, air force or missiles? Why send so many?

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      You know that famous USSR sniper from WW2 with 309 confirmed kills. Irans entire resistance is like that but with drones.

      I know we clown on Trump for saying that their “navy” and “air force” are gone. But, it’s really just exposing the stupidity of him and the way his generals are reporting this war to him to keep him happy. He’s not really “wrong” about that if you’re talking about it from the perspective of traditional warfare. And so he is being told the positives. Because, much like fascist leaders of the past, any negative or realistic report will be considered a failure on the one reporting it.

      The US is currently the equivalent of the world’s strongest and best military that has a Calvary feared around the world.

      The Calvary does an amazing job riding on horseback and slaughtering what foot soldiers they can find. Killing civilians along the way to create fear in the population.

      “The enemy has no Calvary” they say. “We have completely obliterated them.”

      But the enemy is using snipers. The snipers are picking off important targets one by one and their presence alone is causing world trade to stop in the areas they control.

      The Calvary has no way to deal with the snipers as they peak from underground, kill their target, and disappear, never to peak above ground at the point again.

      One sniper even took out their fastest and most elusive horseman named F-35. Though only injured the horse may never rise again to rejoin the battle.

      The Calvary, though powerful and flawless for its intended purpose, has no means of dealing with the snipers.

      So, now, the leader is angry. The Calvary should have been enough. And he will soon throw his foot soldiers to the slaughter as the only words he seems to hear from his generals is “it’s just a few snipers”.

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      Because it keeps people distracted from Trump being in the Epstein files & Epstein being a Mossad asset.

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        This war IS an extension of what the Epstein files are my friend.

        I really don’t know how to get this through to the “it’s just a distraction people”. But, at this point, I feel like the “distraction” people are doing the work of the Epstein class in propaganda and I should really have a copy paste for this by now. You’re focusing the entire Epstein files on one single guy AND using the Epstein files as the only crime to care about.

        If you care about the Epstein files and justice for the victims then please stop focusing them entirely on an old and obese 79 year old man that will see death before justice. Especially when it’s used in a way to redirect focus from their current crimes being carried out with the US military. Lock the fuck in. This is part of it.

        The Epstein files should make you realize something much more fundamental. That is, there is no justice that the current structures will bring to the criminals within them. That includes Donald Trump. Those structures of class power need to be torn down from their roots.

        The same power structures of the capitalist (Epstein) ruling class that lead to the slaughter of children in the Iran, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands in Gaza, the degrading conditions of your own life, are the structures that will will protect every single person in those files from meeting justice.

        I’m sorry, but at this point, the “it’s just a distraction” crowd is killing me. It feels like you still believe that if, somehow, Trump was impeached and imprisoned that that would be “justice” for the victims. You could go back to not paying attention and feel satisfied that the system works.

        That is delusional. Please quit it with this fucking Epstein “distraction” shit in every thread. And if you want the pedophiles brought to justice you should probably care about their current crimes in warfare. Because it’s the same class of people that are pushing this war. It’s not just some old dementia filled idiot that is our president. He’ll die soon. And the same powers that protect the rich ruling class in the Epstein files will continue to exist.

        YOU are being distracted by the crimes on one individual that is untouchable; so that you don’t focus on the structures of capitalism and it’s ruling class that make him untouchable.

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    Relax everyone, it’s just an additional escalation of force by two nuclear-armed nations against Iran and its allies in the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen). I’m sure that Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait will all refrain from hostilities as well, to say nothing of Russia and China. No need for concern, I’m certain that the United States will behave themselves and not park their asses for two fucking decades again. /s