Wait until the United States has to buy RMB from China to provide reparations to Iran. Century of Humiliation just getting started.
What kind of "deal" could they possibly offer Iran where Iran would accept even one of these demands? These are the ravings of a lunatic.
We don't know. Best guess is that it was targetted by Iraqi resistance anti-air, collided with another tanker in mid air trying to avoid the attack, and then crashed. Another tanker had its rudder partially destroyed and had to make a "hard landing" in Israel at exactly the same time, and American support aircraft have been avoiding Iraqi airspace ever since.
It's always funny to me when they publish video of a plane just hanging out on the runway. Like, not even blowing up a plane in a hardened hanger or something, just a fifty year old jet chilling on a runway.
FYI I think this is fake, can't find it on his Truth Social.
Source? The latter I see a lot on, the former I can find nothing.
This is not news? There's nothing in that statement that says they're joining the war, just that they're in the "prepratory planning"phase to ensure "freedom of navigation" in Hormuz. They are not going to send ships to get blown up during the war, and nothing in the statement is inconsistent with France's position that they'll "protect" the strait after the ceasation of hostilities. The euros have no existential "problem" with the war and were always going to defend Iran for defending itself, but nothing in that vague euro-speak statement to my mind implies any kind of military intervention in the war.
This is not exactly News but whatever, I feel like this bizarre sense of both glee and horror that the entire Global North is realizing the shit we've been talking about here for fucking ever about the US military being a paper tiger and unable to sustain any kind of long term war with an even remotely close near peer power, has no industrial capacity to build things en masse and a massive resource reliance on China, has a class of leaders that is functionally incapable of realpolitik, planning, or understanding of material reality, that missile defense is only so effective and eventually you run out and missiles land hits, and that air power can cause mass death and suffering but cannot win wars against an enemy committed to taking hits. It's Cassandra's Curse exploding all at once or something, truly insane times we live in. Having mainstream publications like the Economist writing shit that's basically like "bruv America's got no missiles left and can't make any more" is a fever dream. Like read this:
Mr Vance and others in Mr Trump’s orbit came to office arguing that America had wasted blood and treasure in the post-2001 wars in the Middle East, that the armed forces were woefully over-extended and that America ought to husband its resources in preparation for any future conflict with China. Instead the war in Iran is cannibalising forces in Asia—a marine expeditionary unit has been diverted from Japan and parts of a THAAD system from South Korea—while eroding the readiness of units that might be needed there in the years to come. “There is no sugar-coating this situation,” argues Tom Karako, also of CSIS. “The scale of recent munition expenditures and the degradation of US missile-defence capability may well undercut deterrence in the Pacific for the remainder of this decade.” (per https://archive.is/9QbGK#selection-1555.0-1567.107)
In celebration of this odd mood I wish all of here and the people of Iran a happy Nowruz; here's this Nowruz song I saw in concert once that randomly gets stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZu4tbV13Q
Ah I see, so it's probably more similar to that long range radar the Iranians destroyed in the early days of the war, that big dome?
Once we get to the post-structuralist Derridean PhDs in charge, it's gonna be great.
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