Iran War Watch

Matt Dillon said:
In a few days, there probably will be no more Iranian regime.
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Why is Trump going to TALK about obliterating them and bombing them back to the Stone Age? He wants to get out of his mess. not make it worse. His war of choice is putting him in serious jeopardy after the midterms. He needs to get out, not go deeper.
 
@angeloinchina



Trump Has Lost the Initiative Iran Just Leveled Up to 4th Superpower.What Washington and Tel Aviv sold as a swift knockout blow has become a grinding war of attrition — and America no longer sets the pace.The latest Iranian barrage wasn’t simple tit-for-tat. The U.S. struck a tanker and Qeshm Island; Iran answered by hammering American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Erbil and beyond. Hangars flattened, fuel depots gutted, aircraft and radar wrecked. The damage and casualties were far greater — with American blood on allied soil. Trump’s own words said it all: “They were slightly provoked; they were reciprocating.” That’s not strength. That’s damage control.Far from a setback, this has propelled Iran into a new paradigm. Tehran now stands as the world’s fourth superpower beside the U.S., China, and Russia. Its missiles reached deep, its resilience held firm, and its control of the Strait of Hormuz reshapes global energy.Crucially, Iran is gradually expelling the United States from the region. Each barrage makes those forward bases more untenable. Gulf allies are recalculating the cost, and the entire architecture of American dominance is crumbling.This is multipolarity in action. What America meant as dominance only exposed its limits and accelerated the broader shifts underway. The old unipolar era is cracking.In this round, Iran leveled up. We are entering a new paradigm.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
@angeloinchina



Trump Has Lost the Initiative Iran Just Leveled Up to 4th Superpower.What Washington and Tel Aviv sold as a swift knockout blow has become a grinding war of attrition — and America no longer sets the pace.The latest Iranian barrage wasn’t simple tit-for-tat. The U.S. struck a tanker and Qeshm Island; Iran answered by hammering American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Erbil and beyond. Hangars flattened, fuel depots gutted, aircraft and radar wrecked. The damage and casualties were far greater — with American blood on allied soil. Trump’s own words said it all: “They were slightly provoked; they were reciprocating.” That’s not strength. That’s damage control.Far from a setback, this has propelled Iran into a new paradigm. Tehran now stands as the world’s fourth superpower beside the U.S., China, and Russia. Its missiles reached deep, its resilience held firm, and its control of the Strait of Hormuz reshapes global energy.Crucially, Iran is gradually expelling the United States from the region. Each barrage makes those forward bases more untenable. Gulf allies are recalculating the cost, and the entire architecture of American dominance is crumbling.This is multipolarity in action. What America meant as dominance only exposed its limits and accelerated the broader shifts underway. The old unipolar era is cracking.In this round, Iran leveled up. We are entering a new paradigm.
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One thing Iran has proven beyond all doubt is there is one, and ONLY one military super power on earth. The Chinese and Russian weapons used by the theocratic dictatorship democrats love so deeply, were pathetic at best.

You're a Chinese troll, but you're also an idiot. Iran was crushed militarily and your masters in Beijing hope to make up for it with outright propaganda.
 
Shanaka Anslem Perera
@shanaka86



Iran just called Trump’s bluff.Its supreme leader was assassinated. Its nuclear sites were bombed. And it is winning the war that is left.Washington walked into a trap with three locked doors. Trump cannot settle: a tentative 60-day ceasefire has stalled for a week while he demands changes Iran rejects. He cannot walk away: the strait stays shut and the bill keeps running. And the House just voted 215 to 208 to rein him in, with the Senate one vote behind.But the door he can least afford to open is escalation, and this is the part no one is pricing. America is draining two reserves at once. It has pulled its Strategic Petroleum Reserve down 12% to 365 million barrels to hold the oil price down, and it has fired roughly 1,100 Tomahawks and 1,200 Patriots, weapons it needs years to rebuild. Both gauges fall on the same clock. Neither refills fast: the oil reserve is not projected back to pre-war levels until 2028. And Iran can see all of it.That is why Iran will not move. A country this battered is winning the only contest left, the contest of who can afford to wait.The screen still looks calm. Brent is back above $100. US stocks sat at record highs days ago. But that calm is bought with a draining reserve and a spent arsenal, and neither comes back for years.Trump called the vote meaningless. The market shrugged. Iran read it as a green light.This war is not being won on the battlefield. It is being won by whoever outlasts the other’s reserves. For the first time, that is not Washington.
 
Fifth fleet in Bahrain is being pounded, again.

Oops there goes another US military base
Oops there goes another US military base in the GCC
 
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