US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Neh, The US/Israel coalition is suffering a case of FAFO, The strait was open before this clusterfuck of a campaign… this mess is your doing… sort it out.

The US has proven once again it cannot be trusted as a reliable partner

There was a Minister for Information during the last days of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. Comical Ali was the nickname given to him, such was the absurdity of his public proclamations during the last days of the regime. Claiming victory was near as American missiles and jets flew over his head.

Every time I see Pete Hegseth talking at a press conference, I'm reminded of Ali and his nonsense.

https://www.thejournal.ie/trump-us-iran-6999112-Mar2026/?utm_source=thejournal&utm_content=top-stories

Trump really doesn't like how nobody is helping him in his illegal war. I think European leaders can understand his frustration given his help with Ukraine in the past

That’s extra funny in a thread where if you don’t conform to the group think and point out that both US/Israel and Iran/Russia are in the wrong and attacks on neutral non belligerents is doubly wrong one gets labeled immediately as a Trumpist (as happened earlier in thread)

Nuance is something that is hard to come by in all these pages

You deem anyone who doesn't agree with you to be "the left" and said in a derogatory manner.

Where's your nuance?

But I didn’t say it in a derogatory fashion

you chose to jump to that conclusion and be offended {seem to be normal on the far left} instead, all while deflecting from the questions that were posed, here they are again:

• whom from the “west” should intervene
• Where and whom will pay for this intervention
• Why is the “east” not intervening since they are the ones doing most of the importing from the region
• Why would the “west” intervene in Middle East again when the last time it didn’t go well
• why would they intervene in Middle East but not Sudan or Ukraine

there is an inherent contradiction in opposing military spending and alliances from one side of the mouth while calling for “interventions” from the other

On the indebted bit I was reading earlier the Financial Times having a piece about how governments have been liquidating T-Bills to raise emergency cash to weather this crisis. Once spent there's actually no reason to reload T-bills. How ironic that the traditional safe haven is being offloaded.

Having said that the 10 and 30 year bond yields have stopped their climb probably on Trump talk about abandoning the strait. It could well be that he'll reroute his forces towards Cuba, or even Greenland next.

Perhaps because Russia killed several times more people (especially own serfs) than Israel and been at it since early in 2010s, and not just in Ukraine, they contributed towards hundreds of thousands of deaths including Palestinians in Syria for a decade while our far left representatives visited on trips to shake hands

Or because Russia repeatedly threatened day after day war and nuclear attacks on European countries and did cut gas exports to freeze Europe and has carried out multiple low scale attacks

But most likely because there is no unity against Israel in “West” like there was against Russia due to far left and far right useful idiots undermining any unity in Europe and US and continue to do so as can be seen in anti EU nonsense on previous page

But yeh maybe do go out, great weather to cut grass

why would Iran openly declare they will kill civilians?

@PokeHerKing ”Iran would be foolish to go for a ceasefire that does nothing in their favour.

A return to the status quo would be a poor result for the death/destruction theyve had inflicted”

So how do you feel about the average Iranian person? Don’t they get a vote in this?

The USAF is now shifting some EA-37B compass call electronic warfare aircraft to the Middle East to replace the capabilities knocked out by Iran's damaging of 2 EC130-H on the 27th March.

Speculation on my part here, but I see this as confirmation that a ground operation reliant on insertion via Air Assault, likely via V22 is planned.
The ranges involved work against straightforward helicopter assault IMO.

That the damaged aircraft were the scheduled EW & SEAD element for that raid and the USAF is shifting assets to at least keep whatever plan they have in place, viable.

There is more havoc to be wrought before Trump realises that while he can bomb any target in Iran, that he can't win a victory in the mould MAGA requires here IMO.

I await Thursday's market close with trepidation.

I was listening to an oil expert on Drivetime and he reckons there could be a huge fuel crisis for European airlines by the end of April - not because of the cost but because of the lack of supply.

So yesterday Trump said that, unless the Straits of Hormuz was opened immediately, he would obliterate the energy infrastructure in Iran and maybe do the same to their desalinization plants. Today, in an 180 degree u turn, he says it is up to others to open the Straits. One can't guess what tomorrow will bring.

If he does leave it to others to open the Straits, it is hard to see how this can be done militarily. Can they negotiate with Iran to let tankers through? How would Trump react to this? Presumably, the US will have to have an increased military presence in the region for the medium term to protect their bases, embassies and other facilities?

From a political viewpoint, Trump will call this operation a total victory like no one has seen before. He may seek to pull out of NATO as he says they haven't done their job. Setting up the EU as an opponent may be beneficial politically as MAGA will wrap the flag about themselves and feel a sense of patriotism with Trump continuing to stoke up the fires with vitriolic statements.

Democrats desperately need to win the midterms and put a stop to Trump

@bored65

The easy answer is LPG.

@PokeHerKing

You are forgetting that the Middle Eastern countries do have the missiles to fight back, so any escalation on their territory comes with the risk of that fight back.