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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Response To Kharag Island

Iranian kamikaze drones struck the Port of Fujairah, the UAE's only oil export outside the Strait of Hormuz. Oil loading operations have been suspended. The facility had just resumed operations yesterday

[twitter]https://x.com/IranWatchHQ/status/2032766614056100124[/twitter][/quote]

So the US failed to open the strait and attacked the Iranian port facilities that export oil. Now Iran will strike back and destroy port facilities in the gulf.

Now if the strait is open there is no way to load oil on tankers…so the oil is stopped, oil prices will rise and remain high for years.

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Trump's lost the war. Iran is calling the shots on oil and is flexing their muscle now to that end. The Middle East has never been anything but oil to the US.[/quote]
I don’t know.  Without Kharg island can Iran generate enough revenue to support their military?  This is hurting both Iran and the US.  It’s a question of who crumbles first.[/quote]

Iran cannot survive without Kharg, but the thing is, they are willing to let their population starve, and they are willing to bring down the entire region's oil industry, until a diplomatic solution can be brokered by more powerful nations. The USA, with its soft citizenry unaccustomed to hardship, will raise political hell if prices rise a little.  Midterms are looming and the White House has no margin to work with.

So the US will cave first, and Iran will come out of this battered, with its regime still intact, some critical infrastructure destroyed, its people worse off than before, and a generation of budding terrorists who hate the US. The only silver lining is not for Iran, but for the Democrats, who will win the midterms.

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Really you think it is the Iranian choice? Israel and the US have done this. Iran was the rational actor. The Iranians have avoid war for 45 years. There was absolutely nothing Iran could have done to avoid this. Israel psychotic obsession on turning every country in the Middle East in to a pile of rubble is what caused this.

If Iranian port facilities are destroyed they will take out all of the other port facilities in the gulf. This will drive oil above $200 and keep it there for years. How is Israel going to function with $200 a barrel oil? F Israel![/quote]

Just in time for summer gas prices. Trump and Hesgeth are growing increasingly unhinged because their war is being looked at as a military flop. [/quote]

Its not just a military flop. It is a diplomatic disaster and an economic catastrophe.[/quote]

How is it a military flop? [/quote]

Our actions have led to Iran having a more hardline government while also undercutting the protest movement and making nuclear proliferation more likely.

We've lost 7 tankers, 3 fighters and a billion dollar radar system.  Wasted thousands of missiles and moved defensive systems away from core allies in Korea and Europe.

Geopolitically we've accelerated the move to a multi-polar world, isolated ourselves internationally, bailed Russia out economically, and shown our cards to China.

There has been no benefit to us for anything we've done, only losses of material, money, credibility and optionality.

Despite the success of our precision bombs we've made things worse and would have been in a better position had we done nothing at all.  It's been a giant strategic loss that has left us less safe.

China, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, and Turkey have been the big winners.  Ukraine has suprisingly been both a winner and loser.

Lebanon, UAE, UK, and USA have been the big losers.

Iran has suprisingly been both a winner and loser because they began this from a much worse position then where they are now.
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