(03-03-2026 06:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:55 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:52 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:46 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  The Kurds have been waiting for this moment for a long time. I hope we give them as much help as we possible can.

supplying arms comes to mind...

That’s a good start.

we're handling the front end to give them this one-time deal ... it has to be their boots that gets 'em to the 'freedom fighters'...

Well, there's another matter that requires us to wait upon Iranian efforts to oust the loons and restore order. If they can't, or refuse, it opens up further use of air power to hit more targets within Tehran and other key locations. Right now, we are still trying to consider the innocents and minimize collateral damage.

It would be wonderful if they answered the bell. Arming the Kurds might be a way of getting arms to the Iranians willing to establish a new regime. The risk in dropping weapons into Iran is that we might be arming those who are hostile. Perhaps the Israelis with boots on the ground in Lebanon know of a better way to accomplish the arming.

Our guys will have a much easier time if Iranians take a hand, and we'll have more political cover and direction for precision strikes.

For all the bellyaching on the news this has gone remarkably well thus far.

The Radicals wanted to usher in the afterlife and they have!

that has to be the next logical step once we stop coming at 'em from the air 24/7...

regardless, it has to be accomplished by dispensing from the surrounding nation's boots for them to have a chance ... can't bring an Adirondack to an AR fight unless the goal is to strike out...

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/20289479...2898189%2F


BREAKING:

ITV News reports that weapons have been smuggled into Western Iran since last year to arm thousands of Kurdish volunteers.

They’re allegedly planning to start a ground operation within days and have asked the U.S. and Israel for air cover.

(03-03-2026 06:35 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  https://x.com/visegrad24/status/20289479...2898189%2F


BREAKING:

ITV News reports that weapons have been smuggled into Western Iran since last year to arm thousands of Kurdish volunteers.

They’re allegedly planning to start a ground operation within days and have asked the U.S. and Israel for air cover.

and there ya have it...

Now we're talkin' real shite.

(03-03-2026 06:37 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:35 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  https://x.com/visegrad24/status/20289479...2898189%2F


BREAKING:

ITV News reports that weapons have been smuggled into Western Iran since last year to arm thousands of Kurdish volunteers.

They’re allegedly planning to start a ground operation within days and have asked the U.S. and Israel for air cover.

and there ya have it...

As long as they and their fellow Iranian citizens are the ones to truly overthrow the IRGC and usher in a new era, hopefully a West-friendly democracy, I have no problem with us giving them air support.

(03-03-2026 06:34 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:55 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:52 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  supplying arms comes to mind...

That’s a good start.

we're handling the front end to give them this one-time deal ... it has to be their boots that gets 'em to the 'freedom fighters'...

Well, there's another matter that requires us to wait upon Iranian efforts to oust the loons and restore order. If they can't, or refuse, it opens up further use of air power to hit more targets within Tehran and other key locations. Right now, we are still trying to consider the innocents and minimize collateral damage.

It would be wonderful if they answered the bell. Arming the Kurds might be a way of getting arms to the Iranians willing to establish a new regime. The risk in dropping weapons into Iran is that we might be arming those who are hostile. Perhaps the Israelis with boots on the ground in Lebanon know of a better way to accomplish the arming.

Our guys will have a much easier time if Iranians take a hand, and we'll have more political cover and direction for precision strikes.

For all the bellyaching on the news this has gone remarkably well thus far.

The Radicals wanted to usher in the afterlife and they have!

that has to be the next logical step once we stop coming at 'em from the air 24/7...

regardless, it has to be accomplished by dispensing from the surrounding nation's boots for them to have a chance ... can't bring an Adirondack to an AR fight unless the goal is to strike out...

LOL! They need Polo mallets with their camels and Kalashnikovs so that it doesn't look like Israel armed them.

If nothing else, more friendlies on the ground could aid with locating and targeting mobile missile launchers and underground missile storage sites.

(03-03-2026 06:43 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:34 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 06:18 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 05:55 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  That’s a good start.

we're handling the front end to give them this one-time deal ... it has to be their boots that gets 'em to the 'freedom fighters'...

Well, there's another matter that requires us to wait upon Iranian efforts to oust the loons and restore order. If they can't, or refuse, it opens up further use of air power to hit more targets within Tehran and other key locations. Right now, we are still trying to consider the innocents and minimize collateral damage.

It would be wonderful if they answered the bell. Arming the Kurds might be a way of getting arms to the Iranians willing to establish a new regime. The risk in dropping weapons into Iran is that we might be arming those who are hostile. Perhaps the Israelis with boots on the ground in Lebanon know of a better way to accomplish the arming.

Our guys will have a much easier time if Iranians take a hand, and we'll have more political cover and direction for precision strikes.

For all the bellyaching on the news this has gone remarkably well thus far.

The Radicals wanted to usher in the afterlife and they have!

that has to be the next logical step once we stop coming at 'em from the air 24/7...

regardless, it has to be accomplished by dispensing from the surrounding nation's boots for them to have a chance ... can't bring an Adirondack to an AR fight unless the goal is to strike out...

LOL! They need Polo mallets with their camels and Kalashnikovs so that it doesn't look like Israel armed them.

... your metaphor is better!!!

(03-03-2026 06:43 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  If nothing else, more friendlies on the ground could aid with locating and targeting mobile missile launchers and underground missile storage sites.

XACLY! ... I'm certain we and others could also provide the surveillance intel to help seal all those caves they're hiding all that shite!!! ... #RPGakbar

(03-03-2026 06:43 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  If nothing else, more friendlies on the ground could aid with locating and targeting mobile missile launchers and underground missile storage sites.

This as well.

Expansion of Iran's Ghost Fleet Under Biden Administration

Iran’s so-called “ghost fleet” of oil tankers, used to evade international sanctions, expanded significantly during the Biden administration, growing from approximately 70 vessels in 2020 to over 400 by the end of 2023. According to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), the number of foreign-flagged tankers suspected of illicitly transporting Iranian oil surged fourfold, reaching 383 by December 2023, with further growth reported into 2024.

This expansion has been attributed to lenient enforcement of oil sanctions compared to the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign, which had reduced Iran’s oil exports from 2.9 million barrels per day in 2018 to around 400,000 in 2020. Under Biden, Iran’s oil exports rebounded, with revenues increasing from $16 billion in 2020 to $53 billion in 2023, according to U.S. Energy Information Agency data.

A fact I heard and forgot to mention, which might become more than relevant later on.

Iran has a population of about 90M people. By media estimates, maybe 9M (10%) are sympathetic to the Ayatollah. The rest are not.

Even if the good guys take over, that's a lot of bad guys left to deal with.

Can you imagine if we had maybe 35M terrorists living among us? Yikes.

P.S. I think I figured out the deal about the number of ships in the Iranian Navy.

Rubio was talking about seagoing warships, not all that other miscellaneous stuff.

(03-03-2026 07:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  A fact I heard and forgot to mention, which might become more than relevant later on.

Iran has a population of about 90M people. By media estimates, maybe 9M (10%) are sympathetic to the Ayatollah. The rest are not.

Even if the good guys take over, that's a lot of bad guys left to deal with.

Can you imagine if we had maybe 35M terrorists living among us? Yikes.

awho's to say we don't when you count today's paid ops, all the donks in congress, and those that crossed the border ...

time for a baseball game ...

(03-03-2026 07:03 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 07:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  A fact I heard and forgot to mention, which might become more than relevant later on.

Iran has a population of about 90M people. By media estimates, maybe 9M (10%) are sympathetic to the Ayatollah. The rest are not.

Even if the good guys take over, that's a lot of bad guys left to deal with.

Can you imagine if we had maybe 35M terrorists living among us? Yikes.

awho's to say we don't when you count today's paid ops, all the donks in congress, and those that crossed the border ...

time for a baseball game ...

Ha, I was actually counting all those up in my head...

(03-03-2026 07:03 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-03-2026 07:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  A fact I heard and forgot to mention, which might become more than relevant later on.

Iran has a population of about 90M people. By media estimates, maybe 9M (10%) are sympathetic to the Ayatollah. The rest are not.

Even if the good guys take over, that's a lot of bad guys left to deal with.

Can you imagine if we had maybe 35M terrorists living among us? Yikes.

awho's to say we don't when you count today's paid ops, all the donks in congress, and those that crossed the border ...

time for a baseball game ...

My second cousin once removed, Maddox Miller, pitched for the Coogs' baseball team. (He transferred in from a junior college in Arlington, Texas.) He graduated with a Sports Management degree a few years ago.

I found it, but it was on YouTube.

"sympathetic to the (very dead) Ayatollah"

I see this as levels and my guess, at best 10 to 20% of those 9 million are willing to go meet their 72 virgins. Just like in America you have your idiots that are willing to burn and loot, in the streets. The other 90% are sympathetic to democrats but not willing to risk much more that social media warriors.


The fact every time they name a new Ayatollah and that one goes BOOM with in hour....

probably making a very very large part of that 9 million rethink just how sympathetic they really are.

The Kurds announced they will be launching a ground operation against the Iranian Regime in the coming days.

(03-03-2026 11:36 PM)hburg Wrote:  The Kurds announced they will be launching a ground operation against the Iranian Regime in the coming days.

Strange that they would “announce” that in media.