Obviously, these pentagon types are the reason, quoting Senator Kennedy, why "They put instructions on shampoo bottles." Hegseth has not fired enough of the chain of clowns.
If the Iranians or anybody hits an LNG carrier, that sucker will go off like an atomic bomb.
Its load is the equivalent of what we dropped on Hiroshima.
Screw aircraft carriers as sitting ducks. If you want damage in port or in a channel...
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Thank you Matt, no one has ever done a comparison of Taiwan and WWII Okinawa before (referring to the maps at the legendary WRSA.) We are out here talking in complete ignorance without your reference.
China gets a sizeable supply from Iran. Anybody think they'd sit still for an attack on one of their key suppliers of an essential?
I made that Taiwan/Okinawa map a few years ago to show the difficulty involved in making an opposed invasion of Taiwan.
Japan and Korea get a much higher % of their oil from the PG. If the oil stops, our allies will be hurt even worse than China, an important consideration. It will lead directly to war. Cutting off oil to these 3 nations would be catastrophic.
How is Iran's meddling in the affairs of other countries, sending arms and money different than how the United States government meddles in the affairs of other countries, sending arms and money?
What is it exactly the war hawks want to go to war with Iran about? Is it because war with Russia seems to be less likely now?
That is true, J Jordan, and their proxies aren't doing it to free anyone for their civil rights. Hamas, Hiz'b'allah (Hezbollah), HST, ISIS, Jamat-al-Nusrah, Ikwhan, Houthis, they can get fukt along with their IRGC and IDF backers.
Me, as a major fan of the Shah- because most people have that whole picture completely ass-backwards, he was the best thing to happen to the Middle East since forever- I absolutely loathe what HW Bush did to the ME by sending in his mad Ayatollah and resurrecting jihad in Afghanistan.
Islam was nearly dead, the ME and the Stans were rapidly Westernizing, and goddam Khomeini was a British Indian agent anyways, kept on ice in a luxury French villa, not Persian at all.
The Shah's great mistake, trusting the Americans, was in proposing a Muslim trading bloc of the six most populous non-Arab nations, since non-Arabs outnumbered the Arabs 3 to 1. He was reasserting Persia's historical hegemony over the region after centuries of its long Abrahamic nightmare*.
The fkg Semites couldn't have that, oh no, so they stirred up the mullahs, tricked the socialist Tudeh students into taking the embassy hostage (and executed them afterwards, Achmenidijad led that embassy operation), and installed the noxious Pervert as Ayatollah...where he immediately got to work over the next two years strangling 100,000 little girls in filthy warehouses dedicated to the purpose. I fucking HATE the IRGC and that boy-buggering Khamanei for what they have done to the free-est, most prosperous, most advanced nation in the Mideast.
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*(Ishmaelites, aka Arabs, remember, are also Seeds of Abraham. Their fight with the Jews is simply an inheritance fight like Joseph and his brothers. What became Islam began as a Maccabbean sect in 159 BC in Israel.
It is the peoples of Aryan descent- like the Persians, like the Hellenics who dominated the Middle East before them, and the Aryan Yamnaya long before that, before Semite halfbreeds even existed- that they are sworn to destroy and replace with themselves.
Why? This is genetically baked in the bone; you see, the Seeds blame us for the destruction of the world in 2204 BC, the meteoric obliteration of the Fertile Crescent that left a layer of green glassite under Iraq and turned the Ehdeen (Babylonian, "Garden") into a desert. This memory is the basis of the Eden story, of Semitic male Adam (adam, "true human") over Aryan Eve.
They said in their slums that it was we in our might who brought the wrath of the Gods, and they began stealing our glorious women that their increasingly lighter-colored children might rise themselves to take our place.)
Great stuff, as usual, Sir. (Check for a few proofreading slip-ups.) ANOTHER issue with the US Naval efforts is that each frigate or destroyer's stores of missiles CANNOT be reloaded, at sea, but requires that these vessels return to base, meaning that they're having to tack-on transit time, to and from that base. Those (relatively) small Iranian missile trucks could be under netting and/or IR-defeating camouflage tarps, like the way the British LRDG gun jeeps would hide-out, and we'd go bananas attempting to play "Whack a Mole" with them, especially in such a substantial amount of landmass. I suspect that this is WHY the Mullahs have figured that they could be so obnoxious, with IMPUNITY. I certainly hope that you talk-up these problems with Posobiec, Jones, and/or anyone else who might have Trump's ear, because we must proceed WISELY.
Aside from cultural inertia which will work against them adopting a Swiss template of armed neutrality, there's also the problem with the lack of legitimacy of Taiwan's woke ruling DPP party (Democrat Progressive Party)whose only accomplishment appears to be hosting one of the largest annual Pride parades in Asia outside of Israel.
Beyond that, theirs is a lame duck administration with much of the local power lying in the hands of the Kuomintang ( once the sworn enemy of the PRC) and the Taiwan People's Party. Both parties' stance on cross strait relations generally favor everything from eventual reunification with the Mainland to the long recognized "One China, Two Systems" arrangement.
The stats on the volume of ME oil/gas imported by East Asia - and we can toss in Singapore and the other ASEAN members to that equation - has driven those economic powerhouses to coordinate a joint response to the tariffs.
As for Iran, even assuming we were able to destroy their ability to exist as a cohesive polity ....... it will not only lead to further regional chaos but it will set off a chain reaction of many more war refugees fleeing for Europe and other parts of the West.
In defeat or victory, whatever the hell the latter would look like, aside from elevating Israel to the role of sole regional hegemon, it would leave our military severely depleted at a time when Trump is contemplating kinetic action against the Cartels while we still got a shit ton of illegals entrenched north of the Rio.
Speaking of ASEAN and the MidEast, China has just rolled out its digital RMB (renminbi) trade settlement system for inter-national trade.
In other words, for the oil/gas trade.
10 ASEAN nations (including the Philippines and Thailand!) and SIX MidEastern nations are members.
The SWIFT trade settlement system takes 3-5 days and goes through up to 6 bank clearinghouses.
The blockchain digi-RMB system takes 7 SECONDS...at a 97% reduction in handling fees.
I didn't see any threat to the Treasuries/eurodollar settlement system, because what the US provides is SAFETY and LIQUIDITY to the bank/nonbank trading houses.
We provide the lubricant, the engine oil, that keeps the world engine running.
Banks and nonbanks (trading houses, hedge funds, equity funds) don't pay any attention to the "real world" economic metrics we do. Price, profit, markets, red tape, inventory, resources, supply-and-demand, inflation, deflation, any of that. None of that matters
Settlement is what they do. It is their only concern.
Their demand for safety and liquidity is the real demand side the US supplies to them. This is why we can go from $1 trillion in demand for eurodollars (dollars outside the US) in 1980 to $36 trillion in demand today with no change in effects. The amount of the engine oil used simply depends on the size of the engine.
So what we manufacture with Treasuries and eurodollars, is lubricant. There is no theat that the world engine won't need lubricant...
Except now there is. Somebody just came up with a new and improved synthetic engine oil, and they won't need ours.
Is there any Naval equivalent to a Wild Weasel? Like a WW1/WW2 commerce raider loaded with ARM's or is that stuff obsolete? I could envision a remote controlled ordnance barge bristling with phalanx guns, loaded with missiles, cruising up and down begging them to try. I know I've read too much Tom Clancy. LOL!
Targeting is much different today than when we could fire missiles at anything emitting radar to suppress air defenses. The coastal Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles on mobile platforms don't rely on radar. They will get their targeting information from outside, then launch the missile at a geographical point on the Persian Gulf. The missile will then seek its target on its own. We may have success shooting them down, or not, but the Strait of Hormuz will be a shooting gallery, and tankers will stop moving petroleum.
The Zionist technocabal backing Trump wants to maneuver him to their ends, no doubt, but I say Trump is leveraging their power back as well. He's using them, in other words. With their backing, he can break balls until somebody asserts dominance, and that dominance will be White America. He's riding the tiger, not 'selling out.'
The Zionist war hawks and globalist reductionists have their messianic schemes, so all he has to do is paint the right picture, dangle the right bait, and he is leading them to exactly where he wants to go- replenishing and empowering White men to a position of strength and resupply, so they can go on to take back what was taken from them by skulduggery and subversion.
This is the most dangerous high-wire act in the world, but I see it as planting trees in whose shade one will never sit.
(And firstoff, Mr. Not-our-problem, the "European economies" are our brothers and sisters, so unkindly piss off.
There's only 740 million of us left, and half of our future breeders have been sterilized by the vaxx. The Great Replacement is the real war we must win. Matt Bracken is right, crashing the boat to kill some passengers doesn't save the crew.)
I want everyone to keep in mind Iran's ally, China. I speak and read Chinese, and I think that half a million Chinese PLA troops are in the US right now. Most of the mainland Chinese I know in New York are not anti-CCP. The soldiers are probably spec ops pathfinder types. And will attack the infrastructure. Chinese military age men are stacked six to a bedroom in apartments in the four "Chinatowns" in NYC. You hear many things when people don't think you understand what they're saying.
No shit Sherlock….. personally if I was the mullahs I’d just release 1000s of floating ww11 tech mines , that they..you know..have. . Called ‘area denial’ for your info. Keep the pricier stuff for the next act….but , hey ho Youre the one writing stuff so what do I know,
Obviously, these pentagon types are the reason, quoting Senator Kennedy, why "They put instructions on shampoo bottles." Hegseth has not fired enough of the chain of clowns.
Obviously true...Iran can push the price of oil to $200/bl literally within days, by closing the Strait and wrecking some Saudi oil facilities....
When the economy fails, the grifters take us to war.
If the Iranians or anybody hits an LNG carrier, that sucker will go off like an atomic bomb.
Its load is the equivalent of what we dropped on Hiroshima.
Screw aircraft carriers as sitting ducks. If you want damage in port or in a channel...
________________
Thank you Matt, no one has ever done a comparison of Taiwan and WWII Okinawa before (referring to the maps at the legendary WRSA.) We are out here talking in complete ignorance without your reference.
China gets a sizeable supply from Iran. Anybody think they'd sit still for an attack on one of their key suppliers of an essential?
I made that Taiwan/Okinawa map a few years ago to show the difficulty involved in making an opposed invasion of Taiwan.
Japan and Korea get a much higher % of their oil from the PG. If the oil stops, our allies will be hurt even worse than China, an important consideration. It will lead directly to war. Cutting off oil to these 3 nations would be catastrophic.
Thx Matt 🎯🎯🎯👍😎👌
How is Iran's meddling in the affairs of other countries, sending arms and money different than how the United States government meddles in the affairs of other countries, sending arms and money?
What is it exactly the war hawks want to go to war with Iran about? Is it because war with Russia seems to be less likely now?
That is true, J Jordan, and their proxies aren't doing it to free anyone for their civil rights. Hamas, Hiz'b'allah (Hezbollah), HST, ISIS, Jamat-al-Nusrah, Ikwhan, Houthis, they can get fukt along with their IRGC and IDF backers.
Me, as a major fan of the Shah- because most people have that whole picture completely ass-backwards, he was the best thing to happen to the Middle East since forever- I absolutely loathe what HW Bush did to the ME by sending in his mad Ayatollah and resurrecting jihad in Afghanistan.
Islam was nearly dead, the ME and the Stans were rapidly Westernizing, and goddam Khomeini was a British Indian agent anyways, kept on ice in a luxury French villa, not Persian at all.
The Shah's great mistake, trusting the Americans, was in proposing a Muslim trading bloc of the six most populous non-Arab nations, since non-Arabs outnumbered the Arabs 3 to 1. He was reasserting Persia's historical hegemony over the region after centuries of its long Abrahamic nightmare*.
The fkg Semites couldn't have that, oh no, so they stirred up the mullahs, tricked the socialist Tudeh students into taking the embassy hostage (and executed them afterwards, Achmenidijad led that embassy operation), and installed the noxious Pervert as Ayatollah...where he immediately got to work over the next two years strangling 100,000 little girls in filthy warehouses dedicated to the purpose. I fucking HATE the IRGC and that boy-buggering Khamanei for what they have done to the free-est, most prosperous, most advanced nation in the Mideast.
____________________
*(Ishmaelites, aka Arabs, remember, are also Seeds of Abraham. Their fight with the Jews is simply an inheritance fight like Joseph and his brothers. What became Islam began as a Maccabbean sect in 159 BC in Israel.
It is the peoples of Aryan descent- like the Persians, like the Hellenics who dominated the Middle East before them, and the Aryan Yamnaya long before that, before Semite halfbreeds even existed- that they are sworn to destroy and replace with themselves.
Why? This is genetically baked in the bone; you see, the Seeds blame us for the destruction of the world in 2204 BC, the meteoric obliteration of the Fertile Crescent that left a layer of green glassite under Iraq and turned the Ehdeen (Babylonian, "Garden") into a desert. This memory is the basis of the Eden story, of Semitic male Adam (adam, "true human") over Aryan Eve.
They said in their slums that it was we in our might who brought the wrath of the Gods, and they began stealing our glorious women that their increasingly lighter-colored children might rise themselves to take our place.)
Great stuff, as usual, Sir. (Check for a few proofreading slip-ups.) ANOTHER issue with the US Naval efforts is that each frigate or destroyer's stores of missiles CANNOT be reloaded, at sea, but requires that these vessels return to base, meaning that they're having to tack-on transit time, to and from that base. Those (relatively) small Iranian missile trucks could be under netting and/or IR-defeating camouflage tarps, like the way the British LRDG gun jeeps would hide-out, and we'd go bananas attempting to play "Whack a Mole" with them, especially in such a substantial amount of landmass. I suspect that this is WHY the Mullahs have figured that they could be so obnoxious, with IMPUNITY. I certainly hope that you talk-up these problems with Posobiec, Jones, and/or anyone else who might have Trump's ear, because we must proceed WISELY.
Aside from cultural inertia which will work against them adopting a Swiss template of armed neutrality, there's also the problem with the lack of legitimacy of Taiwan's woke ruling DPP party (Democrat Progressive Party)whose only accomplishment appears to be hosting one of the largest annual Pride parades in Asia outside of Israel.
Beyond that, theirs is a lame duck administration with much of the local power lying in the hands of the Kuomintang ( once the sworn enemy of the PRC) and the Taiwan People's Party. Both parties' stance on cross strait relations generally favor everything from eventual reunification with the Mainland to the long recognized "One China, Two Systems" arrangement.
The stats on the volume of ME oil/gas imported by East Asia - and we can toss in Singapore and the other ASEAN members to that equation - has driven those economic powerhouses to coordinate a joint response to the tariffs.
As for Iran, even assuming we were able to destroy their ability to exist as a cohesive polity ....... it will not only lead to further regional chaos but it will set off a chain reaction of many more war refugees fleeing for Europe and other parts of the West.
In defeat or victory, whatever the hell the latter would look like, aside from elevating Israel to the role of sole regional hegemon, it would leave our military severely depleted at a time when Trump is contemplating kinetic action against the Cartels while we still got a shit ton of illegals entrenched north of the Rio.
Speaking of ASEAN and the MidEast, China has just rolled out its digital RMB (renminbi) trade settlement system for inter-national trade.
In other words, for the oil/gas trade.
10 ASEAN nations (including the Philippines and Thailand!) and SIX MidEastern nations are members.
The SWIFT trade settlement system takes 3-5 days and goes through up to 6 bank clearinghouses.
The blockchain digi-RMB system takes 7 SECONDS...at a 97% reduction in handling fees.
I didn't see any threat to the Treasuries/eurodollar settlement system, because what the US provides is SAFETY and LIQUIDITY to the bank/nonbank trading houses.
We provide the lubricant, the engine oil, that keeps the world engine running.
Banks and nonbanks (trading houses, hedge funds, equity funds) don't pay any attention to the "real world" economic metrics we do. Price, profit, markets, red tape, inventory, resources, supply-and-demand, inflation, deflation, any of that. None of that matters
Settlement is what they do. It is their only concern.
Their demand for safety and liquidity is the real demand side the US supplies to them. This is why we can go from $1 trillion in demand for eurodollars (dollars outside the US) in 1980 to $36 trillion in demand today with no change in effects. The amount of the engine oil used simply depends on the size of the engine.
So what we manufacture with Treasuries and eurodollars, is lubricant. There is no theat that the world engine won't need lubricant...
Except now there is. Somebody just came up with a new and improved synthetic engine oil, and they won't need ours.
Matt;
Is there any Naval equivalent to a Wild Weasel? Like a WW1/WW2 commerce raider loaded with ARM's or is that stuff obsolete? I could envision a remote controlled ordnance barge bristling with phalanx guns, loaded with missiles, cruising up and down begging them to try. I know I've read too much Tom Clancy. LOL!
Targeting is much different today than when we could fire missiles at anything emitting radar to suppress air defenses. The coastal Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles on mobile platforms don't rely on radar. They will get their targeting information from outside, then launch the missile at a geographical point on the Persian Gulf. The missile will then seek its target on its own. We may have success shooting them down, or not, but the Strait of Hormuz will be a shooting gallery, and tankers will stop moving petroleum.
Navy uses Ea-18 Growler for electronic warfare.
Growlers ⚓ are Navy Weasels 📡⚡🎛️ 🚫 ⚠️
The European and Chinese economies will crash. Not our problem.
The entire world's economy will crash. Everybody's problem.
The Zionist technocabal backing Trump wants to maneuver him to their ends, no doubt, but I say Trump is leveraging their power back as well. He's using them, in other words. With their backing, he can break balls until somebody asserts dominance, and that dominance will be White America. He's riding the tiger, not 'selling out.'
The Zionist war hawks and globalist reductionists have their messianic schemes, so all he has to do is paint the right picture, dangle the right bait, and he is leading them to exactly where he wants to go- replenishing and empowering White men to a position of strength and resupply, so they can go on to take back what was taken from them by skulduggery and subversion.
This is the most dangerous high-wire act in the world, but I see it as planting trees in whose shade one will never sit.
(And firstoff, Mr. Not-our-problem, the "European economies" are our brothers and sisters, so unkindly piss off.
There's only 740 million of us left, and half of our future breeders have been sterilized by the vaxx. The Great Replacement is the real war we must win. Matt Bracken is right, crashing the boat to kill some passengers doesn't save the crew.)
Nope, You’re Retarded and you’re overdosed on Hopium. Trump Sold Out and You Fell For It Again!
SUFFAH.
I'm from the future. You are correct.
bloody hell you nailed it
Not sending any money your way, but that’s mostly to do with my situation not yours. Keep kicking ass.
Well that day has come ! This will be a mess.
I want everyone to keep in mind Iran's ally, China. I speak and read Chinese, and I think that half a million Chinese PLA troops are in the US right now. Most of the mainland Chinese I know in New York are not anti-CCP. The soldiers are probably spec ops pathfinder types. And will attack the infrastructure. Chinese military age men are stacked six to a bedroom in apartments in the four "Chinatowns" in NYC. You hear many things when people don't think you understand what they're saying.
No shit Sherlock….. personally if I was the mullahs I’d just release 1000s of floating ww11 tech mines , that they..you know..have. . Called ‘area denial’ for your info. Keep the pricier stuff for the next act….but , hey ho Youre the one writing stuff so what do I know,