(04-03-2026 02:42 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (04-03-2026 01:45 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: (04-03-2026 01:38 PM)TripleA Wrote: (04-03-2026 01:32 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: (04-03-2026 01:16 PM)TripleA Wrote: What a crock of sh!t.
Please point out the falsehoods.
Hey Clarence, this is an opinion message board, not a court of law, and you sure as hell aren't in charge.
Sorry to corner your empty opinion with asking you to say what is false. Cool cool.
Let’s restate — your opinion is that it is a crock of ****, and when asked, can’t be bothered to state what is incorrect about it, then throw a temper tantrum about being asked why it is a crock of ****. Good look, pardner. Lolz.
It takes one of the dumbest SOB's on earth to believe Iran is "winning it"
I'll let you decide if that's you....
The terms winner and loser often may or may not have anything to do with whose cities are being bombed and everything to do with relative strategic advantage.
If we look at the scorecard for this conflict, the results might be surprising.
Im not going to call a country a winner when its air defenses are in pieces and its leadership is hiding in bunkers to avoid assassination. So the best we can say for Iran is that it's a survivor.
And, for the Islamic Republic, mere survival against the combined might of the US and Israel counts as a victory of sorts.
Further, Iran has successfully demonstrated that it can hold the global economy hostage using nothing more than asymmetric tools, cheap drones, missiles, and the
credible threat of underwater mines.
Finally, it will be this week that the toll *really* starts to elevate. LNG and oil shipments are finishing their transport leg -- that is the last tankers out of Hormuz are porting soon. At that point, the 20% deficit in oil and LNG physically takes place.
Wash rinse and repeat for helium --- fully 30% of the worlds supply of helium has now been shut down. And for you all, in addition to 'no more funny voices with party balloons' --- helium is a core and key component in semiconductor foundry operation.
So, to repeat -- anyone with half a brain would realize the vast importance of Hormuz, and would have taken prophylactic steps to minimize any potential reaction from Iran. That didnt happen. And now this.
Oh, but of course, shoot first, and make the entire Western alliance clean up the shitstorm we put into motion.
And yes, Iran by choing the fk out of that supply bottleneck certainly has not lost in a strategic sense. They very well have lost in a military sense -- F4s vs F-35s is bad matchup, and we have bombed them to bejesus. Yet -- they still have throttled the crap out of the worlds most important route. And, they are still there after a month.
Quite the fing win for us and the rest of the world. And a great deal of the world, who are similarly suffering the closure, dont just hold Iran at fault -- they jointly hold the US at fault for instigating the ****. Again -- quite the fing win for the US.
Maybe if we had *actually* put together an *iota* of effort *before* we pulled the trigger we would actually be on the better side of Spain, Italy, and France. Let alone the UK and Australia. But, we didnt. So now we are the lone ranger who triggered this thing, and now at a governmental level whining that no one is helping clean up the garbage dump that we started started.
That is just amazing to me.
