There is a "real world military" topic in which some purely military issues may get slightly into politics, and this is tolerated so long as no other rules (i.e., no insults) are broken. Those who have participated in this topic know that our non-US participants often have very different views than you are used to. It won't hurt you to hear another side of the issue and you may learn something. It should also be noted that some of those who post frequently in that topic simply have no idea what they're talking about; be polite in alerting them to this fact.
| By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, April 02, 2026 - 10:48 pm: Edit |
When your enemies threaten you with nuclear weapons — believe them and do something about it before it is too late.
| By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Thursday, April 02, 2026 - 11:25 pm: Edit |
If Iran can almost hit Diego Garcia, they can strike almost anywhere in Europe.
It doesn't even have to be a working nuclear weapon, A conventional explosive packed with radioactive materail will also be bad for wherever it hit.
| By Dana Madsen (Madman) on Thursday, April 02, 2026 - 11:42 pm: Edit |
Jessica/Steve - on price of gold diverging from Oil. I don't disagree with Jessica's points, but additionally I've also seen a number of financial site articles saying that 2nd or 3rd world country govs/central banks have been major gold buyers over the last 3 years. Ever since the West froze Russian financial assets in Western banks, smaller countries have diversified their hard assets into gold stored in their country. Anyways, the suggestion is that some of these countries are selling some of their gold positions (which are up in value) raising cash to subsidize oil purchases for their citizens.
Ted, who is going to "win" is still up in the air. Iran wins by not losing, by having their regime remain in power, by maintaining some vestige of control over Hormuz even if they negotiate an opening. Deaths of hundreds of their leadership ranks or thousands or tens of thousands of IRGC troops, navy ships, military assets is really irrelevant to that. If your a religious fanatic and your fellow fanatics remain in control, then they may not want to die, but the regime lives on.
The US/Israel have done a lot of damage to Iran, but if anything right now, I personally think the regime is in a stronger position within their country then they were 2 months ago. 2 months ago people were rising up, and the government was at risk of being overthrown, maybe it wasn't going to happen, but they were in trouble, a majority of the people of Iran blamed the regime for their many problems. Now, the people who were in the middle, on the fence, they hate the US/Israel, they support the regime. I'm pretty sure the majority of Iranians now blame the US/Israel for everything going wrong. It doesn't matter that it came from the regime putting them in that position, it's US planes bombing them.
So the question is who is going to give up and quit first. While the US is moving in troops that could launch short term incursions or raids, there seems to be no indication they are mobilizing any sort of force that could launch a major ground invasion. Pres. Trump keeps going everywhere on his statements: the US has won and we can leave, the rest of the world can open the straits up, the US will bomb Iran into the stone age if they don't stop, etc, I could list all the statements from last night or tweets from the last 4 weeks, many of them contradicting the previous truth.
Is the US going to quit and leave Iran in defacto control of the strait. Then the Iranians will likely allow it to be opened but after the rest of the world negotiates with them giving the regime prestige and money, and by the way, they'll still have their uranium. Or is the US going to see it through until the regime runs out of any credible threat remaining to the gulf and collapses. What will the oil price be at that time? How long will the oil price stay elevated. Or is the US going to destroy the Iranian economy and Iran will respond by doing all the damage they can to the neighboring gulf states oil infrastructure, refineries and ports, potentially causing severe damage to the world economy for years to come.
I'll repeat again from past statements. I'm not cheering for Iran, I would cheer the failure of their regime and whoever brings it down. I'll repeat, I just don't know if this was the best way to end the regime, I am not convinced that this was the only option and a nuclear armed Iran was imminent or going to happen before they collapsed on their own. A lot of things have been going wrong for Iran for the last 3 years. This was an attempt to knock them out and I fear we're going to find it will have reinvigorated them.
| By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, April 03, 2026 - 01:49 am: Edit |
Svc, I don't know what the Iranians are saying nor would I know if they lied.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, April 03, 2026 - 04:41 am: Edit |
Carl, Fortunately I do know and was here to tell you. Maybe you need to read more and post less? When you post that anti-US drivel, you just prove that you don’t know what you are talking about, and that you are just posting false things in an effort to convince people who already know a lot more than you do. The only thing you convince me of is that you are posting false information for dishonest reasons.o
You are simply wrong when you say Iran could not produce nuclear weapons. Actually, THEY STILL CAN TODAY. Stopping the war before we remove that uranium would leave Europe within range of Iranian nuclear missiles.
You are simply wrong when you say that the US stopping the attacks would reopen the Straits.
That has been proven in this topic since you posted your false claims. People wonder if you are just ignorant or deliberately dishonest. Keep talking and people may figure out which.
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