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Old 04-03-2026 | 07:43 PM
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It's never too late to do the right thing.
If only the right thing always equaled the best thing. Iran doesn’t get to extort tanker traffic, adapt superpower payloads to rockets, drones, maritime vessels or airliner cargo bays for that matter. They clearly object. Why? Martyr regimes love nothing more than sentencing everyone else into paradise or hell just ahead of them.
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Old 04-04-2026 | 06:37 AM
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At some time the temptation will be great to just bomb Kharg Island and Iran’s other occupied islands in the strait, take out their oil fields, and simply destroy them economically for a decade or two. Making atomic bombs is too expensive for a nation that’s starving and unable to feed its population. Then lather, rinse, and repeat as necessary.
The fact that we haven't seized or destroyed KI yet makes me suspect that there is still some kind of structured plan to this evolution.

Leaving an intact KI as a carrot to dangle for the regime might get them to cooperate. We might have to seize it to be taken seriously. Then the regime's oil sales are cut off indefinitely (they have no means to kick us off KI) with the threat of making it permanent at any time.
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Old 04-04-2026 | 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
The fact that we haven't seized or destroyed KI yet makes me suspect that there is still some kind of structured plan to this evolution.

Leaving an intact KI as a carrot to dangle for the regime might get them to cooperate. We might have to seize it to be taken seriously. Then the regime's oil sales are cut off indefinitely (they have no means to kick us off KI) with the threat of making it permanent at any time.
Mining their new route through Iranian territorial waters would be simple enough too, if we catch them mining the SOH. Or just scattering mines around the “toll booth” island itself might do the trick. Make it plain that they are going to have to negotiate sooner or later.
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Old 04-05-2026 | 05:42 PM
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Default Feckless…still feckless…
Still feckless after all these years…

https://youtu.be/jgxwz35Il6o?si=FgUndwJm_Rn_LgOp



The Iran war has humiliated the British military

Managed decline has become the rule within our armed forces

By Edward Stringer
Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Whether its ships stranded in home ports or drones striking undefended bases, the war on Iran has forced many problems with the UK’s armed forces to the surface, where Presidents Trump and Macron are illuminating them with a spotlight of glee. It didn’t have to be like that, but perhaps it is better that these stark flaws are being made salient now and not in a more existential crisis. The run-down armed forces are not Starmer’s fault but the inevitable product of decades of managed decline. In this period, commanding our armed forces has become less important than disguising their hollow reality. And if there is a salutary response to this conflict, it is the opportunity confront this creeping failure – and reverse it if we can.
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Old 04-05-2026 | 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
Still feckless after all these years…

https://youtu.be/jgxwz35Il6o?si=FgUndwJm_Rn_LgOp
Militarily? Neglected, understaffed, in name only defense spending protects pork patronage & exchequer largesse. Lots of it. Feckless, like a fox.
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Old 04-08-2026 | 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by METO Guido
Militarily? Neglected, understaffed, in name only defense spending protects pork patronage & exchequer largesse. Lots of it. Feckless, like a fox.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Z0Y-...Vlbi1HQg%3D%3D

Meanwhile:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/...iran-rv5cz0qsl

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08TQ12...cJCcQBo7VqN5tD
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Old 04-08-2026 | 06:50 PM
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Paper tiger far too long marching only before obsolete royal parade stands. And it’s no secret. The Germans likewise talk a good game but let’s face it, endemically opposed, unprepared, unreliable to ever engage again on a contested, conventional combat zone.
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Old 04-15-2026 | 05:52 AM
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feckless
adjective

lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.
"a feckless mama's boy"
synonyms: useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless, spiritless, apathetic, aimless, unambitious, unenterprising, no-good, no-account, lousy. Example: Western Europe
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Old 04-15-2026 | 06:17 AM
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feckless
adjective

lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.
"a feckless mama's boy"
synonyms: useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless, spiritless, apathetic, aimless, unambitious, unenterprising, no-good, no-account, lousy. Example: Western Europe
Neither here nor there especially but Z met with Merz in Berlin this week. Surveyed development of drone systems and posed for solidarity shots with CDU party leadership. He’s maybe a foot shorter than the German chancellor. A true giant begging support, hat in hand, before a supersized assembly of feckless phonies.


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Old 04-15-2026 | 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by METO Guido
Neither here nor there especially but Z met with Merz in Berlin this week. Surveyed development of drone systems and posed for solidarity shots with CDU party leadership. He’s maybe a foot shorter than the German chancellor. A true giant begging support, hat in hand, before a supersized assembly of feckless phonies.
Western Europe reminds me of Longshanks in Braveheart.

“Send in the Ukrainians. Arrows cost money.”

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