@CynicalPublius Each, and every, time I took that oath I was signing a check for: "Up to and Including my Life."
What they're doing is performative "Drivelfluff."
There's a down-side to being an Independent (non affiliated) voter. Getting spam calls and texts from both Democrat AND Republican campaigns. Both are all negative drivelfluff. I want to know what you stand for and your plans. Not how bad the other guy is.
From Grok:
The post is mostly false.
Explosions did happen in southern Iran โ places like Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Konarak, and Chabahar โ over the last day or two. But the US carried out those strikes, not Kuwait and Bahrain. Iran then retaliated by hitting US-linked targets in Kuwait and Bahrain.
The part about a "joint strike operation by Gulf Arab nations" with Kuwait launching ballistic missiles is unconfirmed rumor at best, pushed in some Israeli media but not backed by evidence. US officials have denied involvement in any new strikes beyond their own operations. The dramatic "total chaos" framing is overstated โ this fits into the ongoing US-Iran flare-up, not a surprise Arab coalition attack.
@tanpukunokami Tell the Muslim workers to go to their imam and get special dispensation for staggered/combined (shortened) prayers. I ran into this on a contract in Jeddah SA.
@FloppingAces Follow the money. The race baiters are prominent to garner funding. The initial funding for the family ($600k+) has been cut. They need money too. How else are they going to maintain the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed?
@grey4626 If he doesn't play this out, Iran will go into full terrorist mode and launch drones/missiles at anything that moves in the Strait. To brute force and win will absolutely require US boots-on-the-ground. I've been in those boots. Again, I agree with you, but there's a cost.
@jacksonhinkle Ahem. You might want to look up "Operation Countenance" in 1941. Iran was occupied and partitioned by British & Soviet forces in less than a month. Helps to know your subject.
@Johnny_Joey I wonder if the Pope knows that Italy gets ~20% oth their Oil & LNG thru the Strait of Hormuz? Or maybe that gas is running ~$7.90 a gallon.
@johnpavlovitz FYI, Iran "closed" the Strait for political leverage trying to get their customers to put leverage on Trump. If Iran wasn't working towards nuclear weapons, this would have never happened.