thethirdgracchi

I mean that's how they're shooting them down in the UAE. Helicopters with their guns are tracking and then shooting down drones. So you're right.

Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island. Our Weapons are the most powerful and sophisticated that the World has ever known but, for reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.

They're gonna take Kharg Island, no question. This attack is to soften up the defenses so that expaditionary force can seize it. Won't stop anything, and the strait will remain closed. If anything, seizing Kharg Island gives Iran reason to mine the strait and make things even more difficult, because without the oil infrastructure there Iran can't really export much oil.

Per https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116224324444349237

Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the oil cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official tells CNN.

: Sorry but the petrodollar WILL be stopped

At least they're targeting the data centers of AWS and Oracle and Google in the Gulf.

95% chance this is one of those "I'm buying a company to buy the employees" type deal. They wanna recruit the Molkbook folks.

Linked here is a video from the "Chief AI Officer" at the Pentagon demonstrating Palantir's "Project Maven" AI targeting system. I cannot even begin to describe how sickening listening to this video is. The combination of the smug Steve Job's like presentation with the tech bro-esque language of "complete a kill chain," "move into the targeting workflow," "a detection," "decision makers," all packaged into a program that looks like fucking Adobe Lightroom or something so you're like eight levels removed from the fact that you're using AI to kill schoolchildren. It's demonic. There's no other word for it than demonic. This is the kind of war the United States is fighting in Iran, these are the people now running the Pentagon. Demons.

https://xcancel.com/AFpost/status/2032494784963637554?mx=2

Pretty much. So long as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and the American bases in the Gulf states are empty and getting pounded with drones, Iran is in the driver's seat. They are holding the global economy hostage, and showing the Gulf that their liege-lord cannot protect them, and in fact is a liability.

Damn, it's almost like somebody (cough cough the US Treasury) is manipulating the futures market without being able to influence a real supply shock for actually real underlying commodity, that's crazy.

Too bad the Americans hold a significant chunk of the gold reserves of most of the EU. Wonder how that happened... I think you're right, and that Iran agrees; Khamenei in his address even said that one of the conditions for ending the war is reparations to pay for the damages the Epstein Coalation has wrought throughout the country.

US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth "The only thing prohibiting transit in the strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open to transit should Iran not do that"

??? "Yeah we opened the strait, it's fine, if Iran doesn't do the one thing that's stopping the strait from being open it would be open, so we're winning. Thank you for your attention in this matter."

I have to imagine that this is the position Iran will take in such negotiations. Seems like a no-brainer.

100%, they can certainly come down from that position if they feel they can exact actual concessions from the Europeans. If this goes on long enough, I don't think Iran would be crazy to get most of the European sanctions dropped in exchange for safe passage, as well as not allowing the Americans to use their bases.