The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

Yeah politicians generally play checkers not chess, especially in democracies. That is when they’re not eating the pieces..

Trump plays Snakes and Ladders. Always has.

That said his outline of what’s happening seems correct. It’s what ending our role as a global superpower looks like..

US will still be the Mega superpower, but its core values will increasingly resemble the other nuclear superpowers.

[jon-nyc]

Watch China wait until the war is over and make a deal with Iran to allow passage for all yuan-denominated oil deliveries.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said:

Watch China wait until the war is over and make a deal with Iran to allow passage for all yuan-denominated oil deliveries.

Possible. If so this Iran “excursion” will go down in history as Trump’s Folly.

[Mik]

A piece on Iran's water problems.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-quiet-countdown-to-collapse/vi-AA1U6YRl

[jon-nyc]

Recovered.

[kluurs]

Great news a blessing for the holiday

[bachophile]

everyone here extremely relieved.

[jon-nyc]

They’ll be making a movie out of this.

[jon-nyc]

Found via the CIA’s “unique capabilities”

[AndyD]

Great news indeed, an impressive military action.

Though losing two helicopters and another plane in the process implies/proves that low level flight over Iran is a high risk, presumably from shoulder launched missiles?

[jon-nyc]

Detailed timeline

[bachophile]

Truth social just now

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

[89th]

Happy Easter! It’s a real message, too.

[Mik]

Is that the pot and the kettle?

[jon-nyc]

He forgot to wish them a happy Easter

[jon-nyc]

Prime time, too.

[Renauda]

@Mik said:

Is that the pot and the kettle?

Just spitballing and riffing channeling his inner Joe Pesci mobster character.

[Mik]

I hardly think putting civilians at risk and in the dark is going to help.

[Renauda]

Nor do I but I suspect Trump has convinced himself that by doing so he will win the Iranian people’s hearts and minds so they go into streets and rid him and his ego of the ungrateful and uncooperative Islamic theocracy.