@blyskavka_ua Good God, what a big forehead. Yet another example proving the rule that all European pro-Putin politicians look completely fucking weird.
Trump, in the last 48 hours:
“We won the war.”
“I don’t want a ceasefire.”
“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down.”
“We don’t use the Strait of Hormuz. At a certain point, it’ll open itself.”
“The United States will ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”
He. Doesn’t. Have. A. Plan.
I talked to two Israeli sources on why Iranian launches continue to increase, despite US-Israeli claims that they have destroyed almost all of the launchers. Here is what they said:
1) The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the "80% destruction" claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys.
2) Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran's shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches
3) Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into "Super-Hardened" facilities
4) Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike.
5) Because these launching units are decentralized, it is very hard for US and Israeli intelligence to get info on them.
Israel and the United States do not have an answer to this problem. That is why they are trying escalation on energy sources instead. But that is backfiring.
@amalyuchik@RealCynicalFox It's 20-28 miles off the coast. They have several MLRS and a bunch of artillery rockets with more than enough range, plus cruise missiles.
@RealCynicalFox Yea and they're also the ones that would be sent to poke their finger in the dam when China decides to stir some shit up because it just lost 10-15% of its oil supply, which is why testosterone-riddled 20-somethings don't make those decisions.
Nothing says success in war like bitching to the media about its coverage, scrambling to explain away the economic downsides of your decision to go to war and begging other countries to fix the mess you created.
Trump is flailing. Even someone without TDS can see it.