Juan Carlos Cantera

Azkarrago, beranduegi ez bada. No es que tenga prisa, es que vamos tarde. #BiodiversidadUrbana 🌾🌳🦔#HiriBioaniztasuna

[Our Documentary Series "Genocide in Gaza" out now! @ICCAHOPT_BRICS]

🧵With Part IV finally released, we are again proud to share our documentary, "Genocide in Gaza", now available to watch online in this platform.

This project has been a painful labor of love and dedication, aimed at honoring the memories of those murdered and ensuring their stories are not forgotten.

In times when denying the existence of a people and then directly exterminating them is not enough, the very perpetrators have launched a multi-million-dollar online campaign - featuring bots, trolls and paid influencers - that also aims to deny the atrocities committed by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza (as if we were not facing the most documented genocide in history) by seeking to promote a post-truth in which a productive/artistic capacity and resources would supposedly operate in Palestine that would in fact be superior to that of Hollywood itself, by producing so many hours of apocalyptically hyperrealistic video per day.

Please, feel free to repost, quote or comment on our videos in cases where you come across some of the negationist accounts. And, of course, to make visible the painful drama of the people of Gaza, who have been massacred for almost ten months without their suffering being shown by the mass media.

🚨 Content Warning: This documentary contains graphic scenes and sensitive content related to violence, loss]. Viewer discretion is advised.

🇵🇸 All credit for the images to the brave journalists, photographers, YouTubers and Civil Defense crew from Gaza.

⬇️ Find the different parts of "Genocide in Gaza" in the tweets below. ⬇️

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@voz_populi Seguid comiendo 🫜 sionista, para eso habéis quedado.

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@rosadiezglez Eres peor que mi cuñada, y eso es mucho nivel.

[QINTELPRO @QINTELPRO_]

What happened inside the villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte is the reason the Ben Barka case remains the most significant unsolved political murder in French history.

Within hours of the abduction, General Mohamed Oufkir - Morocco's Minister of Interior and Hassan II's chief executioner - flew secretly to Paris on a private jet, accompanied by Ahmed Dlimi, the head of Morocco's secret police.

Oufkir personally participated in the interrogation and torture of Ben Barka. Multiple sources - including subsequent French judicial investigations - indicate that the torture lasted several days. Ben Barka was beaten, subjected to extreme physical abuse, and interrogated about the Tricontinental Conference, his contacts with revolutionary movements, and the internal workings of the Moroccan opposition.

Ben Barka died during the torture. Oufkir is believed to have delivered the fatal blow - breaking his neck.

The body was never recovered. The most widely supported account - based on intelligence disclosures and witness testimony assembled over decades of French investigation - is that Ben Barka's remains were dissolved in a vat of acid at the villa, or flown secretly to Morocco and buried beneath a state prison.

A government minister flew from Rabat to Paris to personally torture and murder an opposition leader inside a gangster's villa, using corrupt French police as the delivery mechanism. Then the body was chemically destroyed.

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@elbarroquista Está muy claro. Trabajan a sueldo de fondos buitre que quieren quedarse con los inmuebles de la ciudad a precio chatarra.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson delivers the most authoritative statement of the shift from maritime to continental power you will find from a senior American military figure. He lays out the irreversible collapse of the Atlanticist maritime order. Continental powers—Russia, China, Iran—are consolidating real physical strength across Eurasia while the American Empire and its financial oligarchy recede. Trump accelerates the decay but does not control it. The United States is dismantling its own institutions and watching its world-spanning power evaporate under inept leadership, hated abroad and suicidal at home. The shift eastward, long forecast, is now underway.

“I agree with your summary, though, that we are looking at another time where—and I think this is key for people who want to understand the global dynamics—Trump may be deepening them, making them more profound in certain areas, but he ultimately is not in control of these global dynamics, nor is anyone else in the West. We can fight and push and so forth, like we’re doing, Europe in particular, the US in particular, but you can’t control these dynamics because I think they’re inexorable. And you defined it. It’s too simplistic for me to say it’s the maritime powers versus the continental powers, with, for the first time in about 2,000 years, the continental powers showing every bit of their strength and their penchant for victory, and the maritime powers basically retreating.

And let me footnote that for just a second and say the very singular, quintessential example of this—the maritime powers retreating—is going to be when Iran sinks an aircraft carrier, or whoever does. Someone’s going to. Aircraft carriers, the capital ship of the maritime conglomeration, if you will, mostly in America of course, but others have them—that’s going down. And when it goes down, it is to a certain extent going to take the maritime regime with it. The one reason that they aren’t even approaching Iran is because they’re deadly afraid of crossing that line where Iran will be the country that does it. They’re not Afghanistan. They’re not Syria. They’re not any of these countries you sail up to and send a few cruise missiles in and then say, “Ah, see what I did?” No, they’re going to knock out one of these capital ships that is the quintessential symbol of the maritime group, if you will, led by the United States, of course.

And to have added another land power—essentially a land power. Got some navy, but Trump has destroyed the whole navy. But it’s essentially a land power, and it’s a vast land power, the size of Western Europe, 92–93 million people, and in a good, solid geographic position with lots of natural resources that, if they were exploited properly, would make it even more powerful. Oil and gas aren’t the only things they have. And you’ve added them to Russia and China. So now your continental powers are not only vast, they stretch across the world. Russia alone, the largest country in the world. Add China to it. Add Iran to it. Now the continental powers are awesome in their potential and in their actual strength. And the American Empire and the maritime powers are receding. And in fact, the other powers in that group don’t really add very much to the maritime element of their power. The only really strong maritime power, and that strength is bleeding away every day, is the United States.

So all to say that in this global struggle that is inexorable, it was just foreordained, if you will, by God and providence that this power was going to shift back to the East from whence it came 2–3,000 years ago, and China would be the primary magnet. All of that is being contested, of course, but the contest now is bizarre. And it’s bizarre because of this gentleman—I use that term guardedly—sitting at the top of the American empire, and the obeisance that the rest of the establishment, our founding fathers put together, is paying to him. The latest example of which is the Republicans caved and approved his lawyer as the attorney general, even though he’s already de facto the attorney general. So it wasn’t much of a move. But we are just taking apart the very fabric—domestic fabric—of our being, our essence as a state in the world. At the same time we’re waging this contest with an utterly inept leader to wage it. And I’m not going to say that there are too many people below him in the legislative or the courts or any of the other parts of the government that are competent enough to take over either. And I’m not even sure there’s anyone competent enough to beat him in an election and to reverse the fortunes, if you will, from that perspective.

So we’re in a pickle, Glenn. We are in a pickle. And because we did gain so much strength and we punished so many people in the world, and we destroyed so many civilizations in the world—I mean that—we’re now hated as much as we are looked at as being crazy. And I don’t know how you compensate for that while you try to fix enough so that at least you can go out with a fairly decent—maybe something like England went out after the ’56 Suez crisis. Not a really good example, but nonetheless it’s the end of empire. England had started—Britain had started—going down long before that. But I don’t know. I don’t know how you put this in geopolitical terms, in geostrategic terms, in inexorable power-shift terms, and deal with it with what we have in Washington right now. I don’t know how you can take it apart. He should have been impeached. He should have been relieved of his duties. He should have been frog-marched out of Washington. Indeed, he probably should be in jail, but he’s not. Which, on a lower scale, demonstrates the inadequacy of our structure right now and the feebleness of our structure, as well as its having atrophied over the 250 years it’s been in place.

I’m reading David McCullough’s John Adams right now for a second time, and I’m finding really interesting comments in there from Adams, Jefferson, Madison, the whole group of them, Hamilton, Washington even. I’m finding interesting comments that I highlight and then draw a line out and write a little marginalia about how that applies to today. And it’s eerie how many of them saw this coming inchoately, but they nonetheless saw it coming. Adams probably because he thought any democracy would kill itself eventually. But others saw it more in the terms I’m using now, expressed in their language. Especially when the French Revolution broke out, and everybody was kind of—Jefferson was over here: “I love what the French are doing.” And Adams over here saying what Burke was saying: “Watch out. This is a tragedy of the first order.” And out of that turmoil comes a sort of look into what’s happening today that tells you we ain’t getting out of this. This is the end.

Now, what does that mean? It doesn’t necessarily mean that America is not a country in the world and has 340 million people and is trying to coexist, trying to get along. But it does mean our power is through—our world-spanning power is through. The question is: how do we deal with that in the short term that could be highly destructive not only of ourselves but others too, and get through it to a flat plane, if you will, that’s reasonably accommodating of our reduced power and continued as a country. I don’t know how we do that, Glenn. And that’s really strange to be saying that at the age I am and coming to the end of my days and watching my country essentially commit suicide.”

The old system is finished. Only a deliberate turn to Eurasian development and physical economy can secure a livable future for the American republic.

[Martín del Palacio @martindelp]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1925. Your doctor says you look run down and writes down the name of a tonic, and you drink it the way you drink anything a doctor names, a bottle a day, feeling marvellous. It is radium in distilled water. Four hundred thousand bottles are sold on medical endorsement, and the steel magnate who got through fifteen hundred of them is buried in 1932 in a lead-lined coffin.

The year is 1948. Your baby is screaming with teething, so you do what the health visitor says and work a fingertip of powder into his gums, morning and night, for months. Then his hands and feet go raw and pink, daylight becomes unbearable, and the child who was babbling in the spring stops speaking. The powder is mercury, a fifth of the babies it does this to die, and it stays on the shelf until 1954.

The year is 1958. Your wife is seven months gone and they send her down the corridor for the routine X-ray, and she lies on the cold plate with her coat over the chair and thinks nothing of it. An Oxford epidemiologist has just shown that one abdominal X-ray in pregnancy roughly doubles the child's chance of dying of cancer before adolescence. The profession declines to believe her, her funding dries up, and the radiographers carry on for twenty years.

The year is 1983. Your son has haemophilia, and the new treatment means no more nights in hospital, just a vial from the fridge and a needle at the kitchen table before school. The vial is pooled from thousands of paid American donors, some of them prisoners. Around twelve hundred and fifty British haemophiliacs are given HIV this way, and the inquiry that finally says so out loud reports in 2024.

The year is 1989. You are on a ward after your heart attack watching the monitor throw an extra beat, and they start you on a tablet to stop it doing that, because obviously a heart that skips is a heart about to stop. Somebody finally tests the tablet against a placebo. Seven point seven per cent dead within ten months on the drug, three per cent on the dummy, and the trial is halted early.

The year is 1995. Your sister takes the high-dose chemotherapy with the bone marrow transplant because her oncologist calls it her best chance, and you sit in that corridor for four weeks while it takes her hair, her gut lining and two stone. Forty thousand American women go through it. In 1999 the trials find no survival advantage over ordinary treatment, and in 2000 the data that convinced everybody turns out to have been invented.

The year is 2016. Your daughter is epileptic and pregnant and stays on the medicine that has kept her seizure-free since she was nineteen, because nobody at any appointment has ever told her otherwise. That is the year the warning finally reaches the box. The risk had been in the literature since the seventies, and roughly twenty thousand British children were born into it while the paperwork caught up.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new drugs, new numbers and a fresh consensus, and he can tell you exactly what the evidence shows.

So could every doctor on this list.

None of it was quackery. All of it was the standard of care, taught in the schools, printed in the guidelines, paid for by the state.

That is what a wrong answer looks like from the inside, and you are standing in one now.

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@EnricJuliana Opinión impopular: Ceuta y Melilla son vestigios fósiles de un pasado imperial que ya no existe y un grano en el cxxo indefendible en el presente. Hay que soltar ese lastre. Ya. Aunque los patrioteros de boquilla ladren, la coherencia territorial nos hará más fuertes.

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@pati_marins64 @NuryVittachi Como en la fábula del escorpión y la rana, responden a su naturaleza, para desgracia nuestra.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

TL;DR: If you’re afraid to exercise your rights, you’ve already lost them.

Six years ago, I started looking into QAnon because it was using game techniques and psychological tactics that I was familiar with because I had helped design them decades before. And what I saw was not normal. It was not a natural outgrowth of the internet. It was a death cult.

And so I tracked it for six months until I saw that it was organizing to attack the Capitol. So I warned about it. I yelled about it online. Other people did as well. No one listened. Sure enough, on January 6th, the worst political crime in American history happened.

The seat of our democracy was attacked. And I identified who did it, who conspired to do it, including Mike Flynn as the leader of QAnon and the cheerleader of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who was cheering for his digital soldiers to be ready to die on January 6th.

And Kash Patel in the Pentagon, ensuring through a memo, through Chris Miller, through Mike Flynn’s brother Charles, that the National Guard could not help, could not prevent that crowd of violent QAnon, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers from trying to murder Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—and cops.

So I’ve spent seven days a week for six years trying to unravel why it happened, how it happened, and how we can build a system that will not allow it to happen again. 38 months ago, Mike Flynn and Kash Patel decided it was going to be a good idea to sue me, somebody who was tweeting about them, who was blogging about them. Not because I defamed them, but because I was right about them. I could have made it go away.

I could have deleted my posts or going crying away and tried to settle. This is America. It is my right to speak about people, especially when it involves crimes against my government.

So if I can be any inspiration or model to anyone, it’s all been worth it. I don’t like the attention. I am not somebody who enjoys being in the spotlight. But if you come at me, an American citizen exercising my rights, I am going to defend them.

And if there’s one message I have for people, it’s that if you are afraid to exercise your rights, you have already lost them. Fight for them. We can and will get through this. We can and will build something better. But we can’t do it if we’re cowards, if we appease them, if we let them rule us.

Not here, not in America. I want to thank everybody who has helped me along the way. There are far too many to mention. You know who you are. And I am so grateful. Thank you. We’ll get through it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The thing about watching a superpower decline in real time is that it is not dramatic.

People expect drama.

The fall of the Berlin Wall. The helicopter leaving Saigon. A moment.

Decline is not a moment.

It is Walmart shelves that were stocked with Chinese manufacturing for so long that when the tariffs came there was no American factory to replace the supply chain because the factory closed in 1987 and the people who worked there are in their seventies.

It is allies who say the right things in the communiqué and then go home and make other arrangements.

It is a currency that is still dominant but whose dominance is for the first time in eighty years a subject of active international planning to reduce.

It is a military that has not won a major war since 1945 but whose budget keeps growing because the budget is not about winning wars, it is about the domestic economy of the congressional districts where the weapons are built.

It is a political class so consumed by the internal contradictions the empire generates at home, the inequality, the racial reckoning, the infrastructure crisis, the opioid epidemic, the debt, that it cannot maintain the sustained attention that running the world actually requires.

It is slow. It is administrative.

It is the texture of daily life changing at a pace that is visible only in retrospect.

And in the middle of it, making it loud and visible and impossible to ignore, is Trump.

The decline did not produce him.

The decline is him.

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

They Said...

If a settler comes to your land, carrying his rifle more heavily than his humanity,

do not raise your voice.
Do not raise your hands.
Do not defend the home where you first learned your own name.

Let him uproot the olive tree.
Let him break down the door.
Let him carve his name into your walls.

Then, if you must weep, weep softly, lest you be accused of disturbing the world's peace.

And if you die,
die quietly, so the evening news can keep its tidy headlines.

For in this age,
the victim is not expected to survive.
Only to master the art of dying without troubling anyone's conscience.

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@negukobaratza Zoragarria! Zure baimenez lagunei bidaliko diet 😉

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗥𝗚𝗖 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽. 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁.

It is that hitting one is precisely what Washington is waiting for.

Pls retweet and bookmark this to help others find this signal.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽

A carrier struck, or a base hit with mass American casualties, delivers the ONE thing this administration does NOT yet have. A rally around the flag moment large enough to convert a "contested" war into a "righteous one".

That is the doorway to a formal Declaration of War and a ground invasion. Not a setback for the war plan. The trigger for its next phase.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁

By my 47 indicators that I monitor to help me assess the situation continually, the assessment inside the Trump administration is that domestic consent is not there...yet.

The public still reads this war somewhat negatively.

So the requirement is arithmetic. You do not get an invasion off a handful of dead. You get it off several hundred, possibly a thousand or more American casualties.

That is the casualty threshold at which political resistance collapses and the vote becomes a formality.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗵𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗶𝘁

Iran's targeting all war has been reciprocal and calibrated. Base for base. Asset for asset. That is doctrine, not hesitation, and the discipline is its most valuable strategic asset right now from what I am monitoring...

Sink a carrier and Iran hands America the a card it has been shopping for. Tehran understands this. So far it has refused the invitation and it has assessed that hitting Arab neighbours and American allies is not the threshold that will rally Americans to war.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀

One. Miscalculation. A strike lands worse than intended, and the ladder jumps a rung nobody chose.

Two. A deniable actor. A proxy or an unattributed hit produces the same casualties without a clean return address towards Iran.

Three. An incident whose origin is later disputed. Before you dismiss that, remember the record. The USS Maine was sold as a Spanish mine and later assessed as an internal explosion. The second Gulf of Tonkin attack, which Congress voted on, most likely never happened. Twice, the war came first and the truth arrived decades later... there are many examples..

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀

Then Washington gets its invasion, and it walks into the one war Iran has spent 40+ years preparing for and openly inviting.

Consider what that country has already absorbed. In the war with Iraq, Iranian dead ran into the hundreds of thousands, with some counts reaching +750,000 dead men. A state that paid that price and did not break is not deterred by the threat of paying it again. It is ready to pay upon arrival.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱

So the quiet on the carriers is not weakness. It is the most disciplined thing happening in this war.

Watch for the day that discipline slips, or is made to appear to slip. That is the day the invasion clock starts.

If this gave you signal worth keeping, please bookmark, retweet and like so the algorithm does the rest. Consider following if you find my work worthy. 🫡

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@Jainko_Barik Y los cruceros que se dirigen a Bilbao con 65mil viajeros están en peligro mortal, las torpederas aberchándales son letales, den la vuelta, por favor!!!🙏🏻

[Juan Carlos Cantera @jonkar64]

@caminantes21 Honor por ese becario que se ha inmolado dándole al botón de “enviar”.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Trump has announced that the United States will strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain "very heavily" and "pretty soon." Under the IAEA's own legal framework, this raises a serious issue. The prohibition is not limited to an actual attack on a nuclear installation; a threat of armed attack against a nuclear facility is itself treated as unlawful.

For four decades, the IAEA General Conference has affirmed by consensus that attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities — and threats to carry them out — violate the UN Charter, international law, and the IAEA Statute. The principle was established after Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor, when the Security Council, through Resolution 487, condemned the strike as a clear violation of the UN Charter and affirmed the applicable prohibition.

The General Conference then went further. In 1985 it declared that any armed attack on, or threat against, nuclear facilities constituted a violation of the Charter, international law, and the Statute. In 1990 it stated that a threat of armed attack against a safeguarded nuclear facility created a situation requiring immediate action by the Security Council, a position reaffirmed in 2009.

This is not a fringe interpretation or an argument resting on political rhetoric. It reflects a position adopted repeatedly by the IAEA across decades. The legal issue arises not only when the first bomb falls, but the moment a credible threat is made.

Two questions therefore demand an answer.

First, why has the Security Council not convened? In 1981, faced with an accomplished attack on a reactor, it acted through Resolution 487. Today, faced with an openly declared threat against a safeguarded facility — precisely the situation the General Conference in 1990 said required immediate Council action — it remains silent. If the Osirak precedent carries any weight, the threat alone is enough to place the matter before it.

Second, why is the Director General, @rafaelmgrossi, not addressing this urgently? The Agency's emergency mechanisms are already monitoring developments in Iran, and he has a clear duty to act. If the IAEA's established principles are to mean anything, the Director General cannot remain silent while a direct, public threat is made against a nuclear installation.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Matt Bracken @Matt_Bracken48]

So you wanna put boots on the ground in Iran? Give them what-for? Finish the Job!

Let's start with baby steps. Kharg Island is 600 KM past the Strait of Hormuz, and it's the size of Iwo Jima. Qeshm Island is bigger than Okinawa. Both are in artillery, drone and missile range of Iran.

During WW2, we pounded Iwo Jima with battleships for weeks before landing 70,000 Marines. 19,000 were WIA and 7,000 were KIA. It took a month to wipe out Japanese resistance.

In 1945 we landed 180,000 Marines and Soldiers on Okinawa. It took three months to subdue Japanese resistance. The U.S. suffered more than 30,000 WIA and 12,000 KIA.

But what the hell, I'm sure a force of around 10,000 U.S. troops can capture Kharg or Qeshm, while being shuttled in by helicopters and tilt-rotors. From staging areas that are in easy drone and missile range from Iran.

Or maybe we'll just bum-rush our amphibious ships loaded with Marines straight into the Strait of Hormuz. For Kharg Island, tack on a 600 kilometer run parallel to the cliffs of the Iranian coast. It should be a piece of cake.

The FOX News military geniuses are all sure this is a great idea, and it seems like Trump is listening to them. God help our deployed Soldiers, Sailors and Marines