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Ronald Wieland's avatar

Malcom Nance noted that the mountainous mainland offers an advantageous perch to fire weapons down towards Kharg island.

GW B's avatar
Mar 15Edited

It might look a little like this view if this guy with the horse were on an Iranian cliff with an island like Castle Island down below his knees in the background. Wisely, the admirals on the ships below on March 17, 1776 knew this meant it was time for them to leave.

https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/george-washington-at-dorchester-heights/

john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Rule #1 of poker: Say little when you lose and less when you win.

Trump gloats like a moron at the slightest victory and incessantly whines at every loss.

You're right about his lust for Kharg Island's oil riches, but I think Iran would blow the entire island to kingdom come before they would let Trump steal it. He is in so far over his head.

Maryann Stone's avatar

Congratulations on your win. Good news.

CC Ballou's avatar

Trump is a concrete thinker. He has no intellectual flexibility. He never has. He has been stupid all his life.

William Farrar's avatar

Malcolm Nance has done a good job in his videos, Black Man Spy, of discussing the obstacles in fighting Iran and especially Kharq Island.

The USS Tripoli has a 2,500 marine detachment and is about two weeks out, so if Trump wants to act now it will have to be with the 82nd airborne, and if he does the IRGC will be shooting them like clay pigeons, as the Germans did to the 82nd at San Mere Eglise on D Day, when they were wrongfully dropped on the town (nemorialized in the Longest Day, with a trooper hanging from a church steeple, feigning death (it actually happened)

Then there is the chance, that, because the troops do not have steerable chutes, that many will be blown into the water and drown.

And the whole operation will piss off China because it gets most of its oil from the pumping station at Kharq Island.

And that, me thinks, is the real reason that Trump did not bomb the pumping station, he doesn't want to piss off Xi, with whom he and his daughter are good friends.

Jenn Griffin's avatar

RightI The house is Russia and Bibi is dealing. America last!

Ukraine holds the cards 💛💙

GW B's avatar

Bibi seems unable to interact with the people of his country. No messages, no appearances. Maybe we’ll never have to see him or hear from him again. If Kushner’s with him, maybe we would never see him again either. That would be okay, because seeing either of them in the media can be uncomfortable.

Jenn Griffin's avatar

I would like to see them in the media for different reasons lol. 🪦😂

GW B's avatar

Where is Bibi, anyways? Awfully quiet

Jenn Griffin's avatar

He’s in a bunker plotting & scheming with Jared.

GW B's avatar

If only we could be so lucky that they would be together.

Jenn Griffin's avatar

They go way back. I’m not sure what you mean. Two horrible people in power plotting destruction doesn’t seem lucky for us.

James Burnham's avatar

Should be a full page ad in The New York Times!

Mark Archambault's avatar

Great article Jim. According to Malcolm Nance, it's going to take another 10 or so days for the 2,500 strong Marine Expeditionary Unit to reach the Arabian Sea. This week may be the calm before the real big storm, er beginning of a ground War.