Klaus Eriksen

Ex Submarine Officer in the Royal Danish Navy. Currently Reservoir Engineer consultant living in Italy, Malaysia and Norway plus a few other places...

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

The Battle for Kherson
The Ukrainian Kherson offensive has already started. There was no specific starting day but instead a gradual ramp up of pressure on the Russians
This is a thread about what I think we can expect from the Kherson offensive in 2022 (1) #UkraineRussiaWar

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

It takes a special kind of strategic incompetence to achieve total military dominance and still pathetically lose a war, yet that is exactly what Donald Trump did in Iran.

The US and Israel ruled the skies, hitting almost every target with virtually zero resistance and few aircraft losses.

Even so, the entire operation failed because Trump is a loudmouth fraud who was never actually ready to commit.

Before the war started, I wrote that Iran's best move would be to just to try to somehow survive the first wave, and call Trump's bluff, and that is exactly what they did. They realized early on that Trump's tough-guy routine was entirely hollow.

Airstrikes alone rarely force an aggressive regime to collapse. Trump ignored every historian and military advisor, charging ahead with Israel without a clear objective.

This was not a typical asymmetric victory like Ukraine's resistance against Russia, where the smaller nation wins by inflicting severe costs on the occupier. Iran's military performance was miserable. Their air defenses were a joke, and their retaliatory strikes achieved almost nothing.

They won the war of wits because survival was existential for them, while for Trump, it was a political stunt. They correctly gambled that the US had no stomach for a prolonged ground invasion.

They just had to absorb the hits and choke off global oil supplies in the Strait of Hormuz. Both sides held back some of their biggest moves, since Washington kept ground troops out of the fight and Tehran chose not to make the Houthis completely seal off Bab el Mandeb.

I have absolutely zero sympathy for the horrific Iranian regime. Trump deeply betrayed the people of Iran by waiting until their domestic uprisings were brutally crushed before launching his badly prepared operation.

He talked big and made sweeping demands, yet everyone knew he lacked the resolve to follow through. The upcoming peace deal will inevitably be far worse than the JCPOA he originally tore down.

This war exposed the hard limits of Trump's posturing. When an adversary stood their ground and called his bluff, the entire might of the US armed forces could not cover up his cowardice and stupidity

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@historyinmemes Why are you spreading false crap?

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@HoracioOli14981 @JohnCleese Is it crap just because it is negative for Russia?

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@HoracioOli14981 @JohnCleese

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@I_am_foxbat @yarotrof @joni_askola no ending in sight, the world economy on the brink and the Iranian dictatorship firmly still in place albeit with new more fanatical leaders. I hope you were Ironic as if not then you must be the most blind individual in the Western hemosphere

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@I_am_foxbat @yarotrof @joni_askola what exactly has been fixed in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran? They still have their dictatorships in place. All he did was to squeeze the Venezuelan dictatorship to give him oil but left it in place to oppress the population and Iran has turned into an enormous catastrophe with 1/2

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@iAnonPatriot you are clearly a MAGA moron

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@ElizabethForNV @MargoMartin47 @realDonaldTrump @usykaa

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@Osinttechnical I doubt the pilot would do barrel rolls while trying to intercept a drone. I think this is a display for morale boosting

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@calamar_plancha @TuiteroMartin

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@AnalitykiemZ @IuliiaMendel You have clearly never been to Ukraine and talked with any Ukrainians. They do not want to give away their country for peace so crawl back into your bot hole and be quiet

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@IuliiaMendel Lies lies lies!
You know better than that
I was in Ukraine over the winter and spoke with many people about the war. Not one of them wanted peace on Russia's terms and I wasn't even able to find a single person who would trade away just Crimea on its own for peace
You are a liar

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@UlyanaStrizh you are just another one of Putin's bitches

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@AndreaT2303 It's really funny to see a "Planet Earth" supporter like you licking the boots of the Russian dictator Putin. Which drugs have you been taking lately?

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@force_cyclone Yest here your are licking Putin's boots in total ignorance that the Marxist USSR stopped existing 34 years ago. You are absolutely idiotic and it is pathetic that you don't even understand the basic principles of what Russia is today

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@force_cyclone You are a complete moron. Where have you been for the past 34 years? The so called socialist Soviet Union is long gone and Russia is now corrupt and ultra capitalistic with some of the highest disparity between rich and poor in the developed world! 1/2

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@khanhassanakht4 @Alinavisoootime we will not conform to your religion. Adapt to our lives to our culture or go back to your own country

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@underalive84 @Bitcoin_Teddy just whom is going to pay for your children's food when they have no income? The tech billionaires present us with a utopia at the same time as they are firing people to replace them with AI

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@Bitcoin_Teddy supported so who is going to feed them and give them all the comforts the tech billionaires talk about. The other side of the equation is that purchasing power will dramatically decrease and thus affect the ability to sell their goods

[Klaus Eriksen @Fireblade577]

@Bitcoin_Teddy Yes this is what all the tech billionaires would like us to believe but just who is going to pay for it? The first consequence of AI is that people lose their jobs and I see no inclination among the tech billionaires to start social programmes where those jobless people 1/2