US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

First off believe nothing coming from Trump, it's all just refocusing.

This war was driving up domestic consumer prices and about to crash the stock market without delivering any quick wins.

Because Trump will never accept he created this mess, Iran can now tell the GCC members to pay to pass the strait and he won't do a thing about it.

He might flair up with Iran again next week, but if he switches to threatening Cuba today then Iran is already receding from his mind.

It will be interesting to see if Israel tries to ratchet up its war to suck Trump back in, but with no easy wins in sight in the region I can see him snapping at Israel to reign it in.

In his scrabbled egg mind Israel is now too conflated with his mess with Iran that he'd rather forget it all.

His goal is now the midterms and Cuba is the easy win distraction to get him to that point. The only lesson he's likely to have learned from the Iran mess is to drag out a Cuba confrontation, milk it for what it's worth.

The ringmaster and clown circus are heading back to the Shield of America ditch.

Because people are naturally enough suspicious of all these Russian aligned sources you post straight from the TASS firehose?

Getting solar panels atm and legit feels like the perfect accidental timing for them.

Not just THAAD, but every new AESA radar, the F35's upgraded AN/APG85 also appears to be bottlenecked currently.
The latest 100 F35s for the US have been delivered without their specified APG85 radars and are structurally incompatibile with the current spec APG81 radar.

The lack of a US supply of gallium is a serious constraint upon US ability to ramp production of advanced GaN radars and other sensors.
It is an issue that the West as a whole is also facing.
There are small Western suppliers, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Canada.
Also if I remember correctly, France has a small imported stockpile too.

'WITCH will continue throughout the week'. Dear Lord.

At the very start of the war the former head of the UK civil service was interviewed on LBC after one particularly torrid day on the markets. He surprised the interviewer by saying he wasn't really all that worried as he expected the whole thing to be over in a couple of weeks, once US 'gas' prices at the pumps started going up and Trump started to worry it would affect the midterms.

It's an interview that has stuck with me ever since - a statement of the obvious but one that many seemed disinclined to accept for some reason.

By the weekend Trump will be busy posting about his imminent takeover of Cuba (with whom he IS apparently in talks).

Marine landing ships won’t arrive for another few weeks, well maybe only one of the two on way that went thru straits of Malaca few days back

Edit; Iran reject Trumps olive branch

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/0t2zpd7dr

As always, it is possible for two or more things to be true at the same time. I suspect there have been talks going on all along. Some people seem incapable of anything other than a binary narrative, especially when Israel is involved. I've said before that I think the fact that the President, a relatively new appointee and relatively moderate figure, remains alive, is significant.

This regime could not have survived for 47 years without some public support, any more than Soviet communism could have or indeed dictatorships time out of number all over the world. Even the Israelis accept that 20% or more of the population support the regime - in fact the total numbers employed by the govt and the various security agencies probably approach that figure anyway, not to mention the ranks of the religiously devout. That's 15-20 million people, not hard to extract a crowd from. It's notable that those attending the pro-govt demos, both men and women, seem very conservatively dressed even by Muslim standards.

That doesn't mean the majority support them - most probably just want a better life and would support anything that might give them some hope of that.

I remember being excoriated over on p.ie last year after predicting that the June war would be followed, not immediately but after a time, by another significant street uprising, Not at all, I was assured, the 'Iranian people' were too 'proud' to play the US and Israeli game in that way. And then January happened. People generally just want a better life. All this regime has ever seemed interested in is exporting its brand of Shia Islamism and setting up states within states in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen etc. It has some achievement in terms of universal education but the overall balance sheet is pretty poor, and even in quiet times it has been one of the most egregious human rights abusers in the world.

when you say Iranians, do you mean people living in Iran, or people living in the west with Iranian heritage. There is a internet blackout in Iran, you wont see anything. but generally you can expect a rally when your country is attacked.

as for talks, they were in the middle of talks before the Israelis and TACO started to bomb them. the US administration is untrustworthy, they kill people during talks. they go back on trade agreements etc

Brilliant to see somebody put it up to Trump.

That assassination of a nations head of state would anyone, including we in Europe of having anything further to do with Trump's USA.

Why, exactly, would Iran trust a negotiation with the US/Israel?

looks like war is far from over based on latest from trump-

Trump made clear that ending Iran’s nuclear program is crucial for any deal and claimed that Iran had agreed to that.

"We are very willing to make a deal. It’s got to be a good deal and it’s got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They’re not going to have nuclear weapons anymore. They’re agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there is no deal."

He suggested that the US could go in to recover nuclear material from Iran if a deal was made.

The US president also said that you could consider that Iran was already undergoing a regime change because the US-Israeli attacks targeted and killed a large number of top Iranian leaders.

If there was no deal, he said, “we will just keep bombing our little hearts out.”

meanwhile israel are apparently not quite on the same pause page as trump, as they continue to take out regime infrastructure

I think thats been true for decades. Trump has just pulled back the veil and people finally see what the US is. Even their own citizens are starting to see that light and understand they're not the saviour they purported to be.

Iran have been pretty open about the happenings in this war. Just look at the way they denied Diego Garcia immediately and that appears to be true. I also don't believe the claims on the planes the US said were friendly fire or mid air collisions. Israel completely denying the damage from missiles that was coming out on various media. Both regimes are taking heavy damage and the bill to repair will be astronomical if its even rebuilt at all.