Israel's Defense Minister is raising the alarm that they are running out of troops

UAE has joined war with US

Israel lost 21 tanks to Hezbollah yesterday

So, umm yeah we are winning.

I'm not going to bother arguing the philosophy of hate. I will say I will fight fascism until the day I die

"But, hey what do I know"
You know you hate Trump, the GOP, and anyone who even attempts to listen or repeat something from the Trump or the GOP. You also know you hate 1 poster here more than anything else.
Besides that?
You don't know squat.

#45 | Posted by eberly

I appreciate your astute and fact based counter argument. Very helpful

I have a question

How come YOU don't hate Trump?

To be PERFECTLY clear. IRAN is controlling the price of oil throughout the world. They can increase or decrease the price of oil by allowing or preventing tankers from passing.

That is a simple fact

Until Iran is forced from that Iran holds the world's economy by the short hairs.

Piggy seems to not have anticipated this.

Can anyone honestly think Iran will willingly give that control up? Under pretty much ANY circumstances?

And remember, the "fix" to this situation-Kharg Island, seizing the straits ONLY lowers the amount of oil going the market until such time as the war is FULLY won and all production is returned to normal-i.e. YEARS best case.

We. Are. ------

Thanks magat scum

And I fully recognize that RUSI will have its own political agenda

However, given EVERYONE is saying it takes months to make missiles and we, Israel and the Gulf States are firing lots of missiles and we are diverting missile systems from S. Korea and Ukraine and attacks on Israel seem to be having more effect it does kinda make sense that stockpiles are drying up.

But, hey what do I know

why does our government release information such as inventory of critical munitions to the Royal United Services Institute?
Wouldn't that be highly classified and something we wouldn't want anyone to know?

#39 | Posted by eberly

Publicly available information ranging from contracts to produce munitions, timelines for the building of munitions, sales figures to various nations, capacity and capabilities of the munition systems, use of munitions during the June 2025 conflict, capacity for replenishment, diversion of munitions from other areas (i.e. Ukraine, Far East), use rate of munitions during current conflict, rate of missiles and drones fire by Iran at various targets, make-up of the various missiles being fired by Iran, public statements by various governments, first hand experience by former military personell, off the record communication with people in the administration, industry and foreign governments, etc. etc. etc.

And some perspective points

The NYTimes is reporting Iran has largely succeeded in destroying 13 US bases in the region.

The pride of our navy the USS Gerald Ford has been taken out of the war for months, if not over a year.

The USS Lincoln was chased out of the area by Iranian cruise missiles

AND AGAIN WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF INTERCEPTOR MISSILES

People seem unable to process what is happening and what is coming. Fuel/energy? Food? Plastics? We are on the edge of the literal abyss. There is zero evidence of deescalation, zero. The war is expanding and ground invasion is imminent. Iran will definitely respond to this aggressively and depending on how serious the assault could trigger existential destruction of various Gulf States. The world will not recover from that. 30% of the world's oil removed from the global economy for a LONG time? That is possible. Not just a temporary months long halt, but if the gulf state's oil industry is devastated it could take decades to repair. If the desalination plants are hit then, well deaths in the millions-there is no way to supply water to the MILLIONS that will lose it. And the US and Israel CONTINUE to target Iran's nuclear plants. Like WTAF! These freaking fools are playing with global annihilation. What the ---- do you think will happen if we hit an Iranian reactor? Chernobyl level event? We are repeatedly hitting their nuclear plants for ----s sake.

And now Piggy is going to send in ground troops, to what effect?

He has been lying constantly about negotiations. So this ground assault will achieve what. Say BEST case scenario we capture Kharg Island or seize the islands in the strait? SO WHAT? We've effectively removed Iran's oil from the global market-up goes oil prices. Iran won't retaliate? Is that their thinking? If we destroy or prevent Iran from selling oil they will, what? Quit? ARE THEY INSANE???

Iran will retaliate against gulf oil production

Oh and Israel and the gulf states and the US military will start running out of interceptor imminently and be completely out of the in a couple of weeks.

We are on the edge of the abyss and piggy is pushing hard.

Why again is this happening?

So, fine eb get the last word I know you have to I won't bother responding to your pathetic ----

christ I hate when I land on the retort not signed in and am subjected to posts from people I have plonked

Your argument makes zero sense. First I was only posting the op-ed to allow me to post my ongoing thoughts about the Iran war. Second, yes I agree with the thoughts of this conservative op-ed that there are many Israeli propagandists in the media pushing this war. Third, it is irrelevant whether I agree with other positions this writer or the publication has. I am not commenting on them. Fourth, Nancy Grace, MTG and Boebert have all come out against this war, I support that opinion despite their abhorrent views about other things and Fifth, I say this op-ed posted at antiwar.com so I wasn't "seeking out opinions I agree with". I went to Antiwar.com, saw an article posted that I thought interesting and put that as this thread.

As for the argument that posting something that you agree with somehow make you less credible is plainly a stupid argument. That is the essence of any opinion based posting.

And I understand far more than you ever will you ------- ----