Originally Posted by Meme In Command (Post 4014085)

You're kidding right?
Since when is not wanting to get into another middle east conflict "cheering for the Iran team"?

Since when is holding the guy that said "no more pointless wars" accountable to his words "cheering for the Iran team?

Originally Posted by dmeg13021 (Post 4014145)

If we don't take out Xerxes now, we estimate they're only months to possibly a decade away from making Greek fire, and then what? I know Darius said he wasn't going to pursue it, and after Salamis, we'd pretty much obliterated all of their manufacturing capability, but I hear they've been chanting death to Sparta, so we better round up everybody we can to go help out Athens.

Originally Posted by METO Guido (Post 4014160)

The minute a non-farcical, quasi-verifiable no enrichment/salt accord is signed, this ends. But as noted here more than once, by summer latest, we’ll announce unilateral, premature victory & pause. Saddam had no program. These children sacrificing monsters do. Think and say whatever you want to about it, political bs aside, this is what stalking spiritual fanatics wielding superpower swords looks like. Should’ve dealt with this 20 years ago.

Originally Posted by Boeing Aviator (Post 4014152)

https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/lifest...o-fuel-prices/


SAS to cancel a 1000 flights due to soaring gas prices

Originally Posted by CBreezy (Post 4014166)

That regime is brutal and full of monsters but before we start pointing fingers at them for killing children, perhaps we should look in the mirror

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 4014024)

We are pretty much already at peak escalation, a full-on invasion simply isn't in the cards from a practical military perspective. IR has nothing left after the SoH, other than random one-off TBM shots and low-intensity terror ops, all of which they've been doing for years anyway. Their AF and Navy are destroyed, and they have no IADS left. We can also plink away at their mech and armor inventory, leaving the ground forces as just light infantry. Not that their ground forces matter aside from domestic oppression and maybe deterring Iraq long-term.

The question now is how long to either open the strait, setup some scheme to enable shipping, or negotiate an armistice. Or likely some combination. Yes there's uncertainty as to duration and extent of economic impact. But the US administration *should* have a political incentive to minimize that (IL probably doesn't, like the GCC they want to get in their licks while the getting is good).

Of note, the GCC states are now pushing the US to fully dismantle IR's force projection capabilities before we call it off. Like most, they were not in favor of this evolution, but not that we're here they want to take full advantage of it.

Originally Posted by N39E002 (Post 4014189)

It amazes me that a President's voluntary actions are likely to put the economy into a deep recession (if not worse), destabilize the world, and severely strain relationships with our Allies and nobody has the Chutzpah to do anything about it. If Americans aren't coming home in body bags are they simply numb to their future?