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Rude for Iran to be firing missiles after 37 Truth Social posts about how they’ve been defeated. It’s like they didn’t even read them.
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They did not give their attention to this matter
slowla13 comment:
Iran said we’re not reading all that
https://www.threads.com/@kolchak/post/DX7JiboD3Uj/rude-for-iran-to-be-firing-missiles-after-truth-social-posts-about-how-theyve
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yes. We know you psychos love Iran and hate America.
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Quote:Libtards are sad for Trumptards who are incompetent at work. Trump and "Sec. of War" Pete Hegseth don't know how to win against a much weaker country, unmistakably demonstrating incompetence. The Chinese are also aware of the Americans' grotesque incompetence, even if Trumptards are oblivious to the obvious:
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China Sees a ‘Giant With a Limp’ as U.S. Drains Weapons on Iran War
America’s ability to deter China in a war over Taiwan is weakened, Chinese analysts say, giving Beijing leverage in an upcoming summit with President Trump.
By David Pierson and Berry Wang
Reporting from Hong Kong
May 8, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/world/asia/trump-xi-china-us-iran-m
unitions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.4ed9.dQL_2w_ohK_G&smid=url-share
A grinding war in Iran has so severely drained American firepower that Chinese analysts are openly questioning Washington’s ability to defend Taiwan. That shifting calculus threatens to undercut President Trump’s leverage in his high-stakes summit next week with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping.
Since the war began in late February, the United States has burned through around half of its long-range stealth cruise missiles and fired off roughly 10 times the number of Tomahawk cruise missiles it currently buys each year, according to internal Defense Department estimates and congressional officials.
To some Chinese military and geopolitical analysts, the war has done more than deplete U.S. munitions stockpiles, it has also shattered America’s aura of dominance. They argue that it has exposed a major flaw in U.S. war strategy: its inability to make weapons quickly enough to replenish its arsenal in a sustained, intense conflict.
This depletion “has significantly diminished the U.S. military’s ability to project its combat power, laying bare the shortcomings of its global military hegemony,” said Yue Gang, a retired colonel of the People’s Liberation Army, in an interview.
Such arguments help fuel a narrative among hawkish Chinese commentators, and potentially in the government, that American forces could no longer effectively defend Taiwan should the United States and China ever go to war over the self-governed island. The logic of Chinese nationalists is that since the United States has been unable to achieve a quick victory against Iran, a regional military power, then it would most likely have even less success against China, which the analysts see as a peer competitor.
From this perspective, the U.S. impasse with Iran weakens Mr. Trump’s position going into talks with Mr. Xi next week.
“Trump originally intended to visit China with the air of a swift victor, leveraging his position to increase pressure on China,” Mr. Yue said. “Now, however, with the conflict deadlocked and the military campaign stalled, he finds himself in a difficult position.”
Mr. Trump, he added, “will be unable to project the same arrogance.”
Mr. Trump is expected to seek deals with Mr. Xi to help reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China. That could include pledges by Beijing to buy more American soybeans and Boeing planes. Mr. Trump will also press Mr. Xi about China’s continued purchases of Iranian oil, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.
China, for its part, wants to stabilize ties with the Trump administration and extend the trade truce in order to focus on revitalizing its economy and developing its own technologies.
Beijing wants the Trump administration to reduce its support for Taiwan. Mr. Xi warned Mr. Trump in February that China would “never allow Taiwan to be separated from China,” as he urged him to handle U.S. arms sales to the island with “prudence.” (The Trump administration has since delayed announci
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The Iran war marks the end of American primacy as we know it
For states that had opted to depend on US protection, this should be a wake-up call
The war in Ukraine shattered a core assumption about great-power dominance: that size and military strength are enough to impose one’s will. Ukraine showed otherwise. With the right strategy, geography, and resolve, a weaker state can survive and blunt - and in key respects even defeat - a much stronger adversary.
The United States now faces an uncomfortable parallel. The war with Iran is exposing similar limits to American power.
For decades, U.S. grand strategy has rested on primacy — the belief that America’s unmatched military capabilities enabled it to uphold global stability and shape outcomes across regions.
After the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Americans have reached a stark conclusion: the cost of primacy is no longer sustainable — and no longer serves U.S. interests. A strategy that depends on military dominance everywhere, all the time, inevitably means being at war somewhere, all the time. America’s endless wars are not an accident; they are the product of this approach. And if there is one rare point of agreement in a deeply divided country, it is this: Americans are tired of war.
Yet despite a war-weary public, mounting fiscal strain, and politicians who promise to end endless wars, inertia — and powerful economic interests tied to war — have kept primacy intact.
The question now is whether the debacle in Iran will finally break that pattern. Early signs suggest its repercussions may exceed even those of George W. Bush’s war of choice in Iraq.
Consider this: the United States won the Iraq war in under three weeks. Its military dominance was never in doubt. But it lost the peace — failing to stabilize the country once the insurgency took hold.
In Iran, however, the United States didn’t even win the military phase — despite facing a far weaker conventional force. Iran leveraged geography and asymmetric tactics to blunt American power and inflict a strategic setback. Even more striking, early claims that U.S. airstrikes had significantly degraded Iran’s drone and missile capabilities now appear overstated. The lesson is clear: control of the skies does not guarantee control of outcomes. Without the will to deploy ground forces—and without the ability to translate airpower into decisive results — American primacy begins to look increasingly hollow.
Second, as Stephen Walt has noted, even though the Iraq war ultimately failed, it did achieve its immediate objective: the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. In Iran, the opposite appears to be happening. Rather than weakening the regime, the war has likely strengthened it — consolidating internal cohesion and reinforcing hardline control.
Walt further notes that while the Iraq war destabilized the region, its global repercussions were relatively contained. It did not trigger an oil crisis, widespread food shortages, or major supply chain disruptions. The Iran war, by contrast, has already sent energy markets into turmoil — driving oil and gas prices to record highs and triggering energy emergencies in multiple countries. It may also have fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical landscape of the Persian Gulf for years to come.
Read more at https://responsiblestatecraft.org/war-with-iran/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Checkmate in Iran
Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.
By Robert Kagan | May 10, 2026, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losin
g/687094/
It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War II were eventually reversed. The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America’s overall position in the world, because they were far from the main theaters of global competition. The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable and unthreatening to its neighbors and kept the United States dominant in the region.
Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.
President Trump likes to talk about who has “the cards,” but whether he has any good ones left to play is not clear. The United States and Israel pounded Iran with devastating effectiveness for 37 days, killing much of the country’s leadership and destroying the bulk of its military, yet couldn’t collapse the regime or exact even the smallest concession from it. Now the Trump administration hopes that blockading Iran’s ports will accomplish what massive force could not. It’s possible, of course, but a regime that could not be brought to its knees by five weeks of unrelenting military attack is unlikely to buckle in response to economic pressure alone. Nor does it fear the anger of its populace. As the Iran scholar Suzanne Maloney noted recently, “A regime that slaughtered its own citizens to silence protests in January is fully prepared to impose economic hardships on them now.”
Some supporters of the war are therefore calling for the resumption of military strikes, but they cannot explain how another round of bombing will accomplish what 37 days of bombing did not. More military action will inevitably lead Iran to retaliate against neighboring Gulf States; the war’s advocates have no response to that, either. Trump halted attacks on Iran not because he was bored but because Iran was striking the region’s vital oil and gas facilities. The turning point came on March 18, when Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field and Iran retaliated by attacking Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest natural-gas-export plant, causing damage to production capacity that will take years to repair. Trump responded by declaring a moratorium on further strikes against Iran’s energy facilities and then declaring a cease-fire, despite Iran’s not having made a single concession.
The risk calculus that forced Trump to back down a month ago still holds. Even if Trump were to carry out his threat to destroy Iran’s “civilization” through more bombing, Iran would still be able to launch many missiles and drones before its regime went down—assuming it did go down. Just a few successful strikes could cripple the region’s oil and gas infrastructure for years if not decades, throwing the world, and the United States, into a prolonged economic crisis. Even if Trump w
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The Sec of "War" Pete Hegseth cannot remember that it was he who gave away "Classified Secrets" in a public hearing. Pete's faulty memory is one major reason why Trump's Iran War has faltered.
Hegseth calls for Sen. Mark Kelly to be investigated by Pentagon for second time
May 10, 2026 8:18 PM
https://krdo.com/news/2026/05/10/hegseth-calls-for-sen-mark-kelly-to-b
e-investigated-by-pentagon-for-second-time/
Kelly responded to Hegseth’s post with a video of the pair at a recent Senate hearing. “We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take ‘years’ to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you,” Kelly posted, adding that the “war is coming at a serious cost.”
Kelly’s comments on weapons stockpiles come more than two months into the US’ war with Iran. CNN previously reported that the US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.
As of April 21, the US military expended at least 45% of its stockpile of Precision Strike Missiles; at least half of its inventory of THAAD missiles, which are designed to intercept ballistic missiles; and nearly 50% of its stockpile of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles, according to an analysis conducted last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Those numbers closely align with classified Pentagon data about US stockpiles, according to the sources familiar with the assessment.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:What are the names of Iranians who will sign the surrender documents Trump wants? Who will give Trump all the marvelous trophies that he wants from Iran? Trump does not know who they are. But Trump does know that the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. And Trump has taken no uranium away from Iran. And Trump knows the citizens of Iran are still governed by the same old government as before Trump went to war. And that Iran can destroy the oil-producing Middle East countries that Trump claims he is protecting.
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according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.
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Name them.
If they're lying, everyone deserves to know who is lying.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is Right About Something for Once
By Fred Kaplan | May 11, 2026 3:50 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/iran-trump-news-offer-war-
ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz.html
A rare thing happened on Sunday night: One of President Donald Trump’s posts on social media was absolutely true. He said that Iran’s response to the U.S. ceasefire proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE”—and he’s right, it is totally unacceptable.
But what is Trump going to do about it? What can he do about it? The answer, alas, is not much—at least not much that is likely to have an effect on the Iranian leaders’ behavior. Trump is caught in a trap, and it’s a trap of his own making.
Iranian spokesmen laid out their counterproposal in a statement Monday morning. They demand an end to the war (including Israel’s war in Lebanon), an end to the U.S. blockade, a pledge of no further U.S. or Israeli attacks, reparations for damages, a lifting of Western economic sanctions, the release of Iran’s frozen assets, Iran’s continued control over the Strait of Hormuz (which is in international waters), and a postponement of any negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program until all of these demands are satisfied.
These are the sorts of demands that the winner of a war would issue. By making them, Iran’s leaders are proclaiming that they won this war—and, in a sense, they are right. Victory in war means making an opponent bend to your will. In asymmetric war, the ostensibly weaker power wins by not losing. The Iranians have bowed to none of Trump’s stated war aims (regime change, dismantling all nuclear assets and ballistic missiles, abandoning terrorist militia groups, or opening the Strait of Hormuz). Meanwhile, Iran’s continued ability to keep the Strait closed to all but its preferred customers (mainly Russia and China) is squeezing the global economy, including that of the United States. The fact that it is able to do so, despite a massive U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign that destroyed or damaged more than 13,000 Iranian targets and killed the entire top echelon of its political leaders, has bolstered Iran’s image of strength—and made the U.S. and Israel seem weak or aimless.
Trump said last week that if Iran rejected his peace proposals, he would resume bombing—but to what end? In an interview on Sunday, Trump said that the 38 days of airstrikes, which began on Feb. 28, had destroyed about 70 percent of the structures on U.S. war planners’ list of Iranian targets, but, he added, there are “other targets that we could conceivably hit.”
The remark wasn’t likely to make Iranian generals tremble. First, it’s not a threat of high confidence to say we “could conceivably” hit some targets. Second, if hitting the first 13,000 targets on the list didn’t make the Iranians surrender, there’s no reason to believe that hitting the next few thousand would clinch the contest.
For all his talk of “winning,” Trump doesn’t know what the term—or its opposite, “losing”—means. In his first televised speech on the war, back on April 1, he boasted that “our armed forces have delivered swift, overwhelming victories on the battlefield”—but, in fact, the armed forces had merely been destroying targets, which, as any military adviser could have told him and as we’ve all since seen, doesn’t mean the same thing. Similarly, in his interview this past Sunday, Trump said the Iranians “are defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re done.” Well, actually, if they really were defeated, it would mean precisely that they’re done.
The war has been a moral, political, and strategic failure for the United States. The strategic failure is threefold. First, Trump never expressed a consistent rationale—never formulated a strategy—for going to war. Second, to the extent he stressed a particular goal, it bore no relationship to the bombing campaign. For instance, he sometimes said that his main goal was to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, yet few of the targets he destroyed had anything to do with Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Third, and in some ways most critically,
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I don't care about Trump. Not one single, little bit.
Stop bringing him up.
You're deflecting.
Try again.
Can you have an argument or even a simple discussion without bringing up Trump anymore? Is that even possible for you?
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