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Looks like they changed up the headline on you:
"Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East"
We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.
This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.
They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it's horrendous.
Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked "live" updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don't even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.
It's a serious problem with anything marked "Live Coverage!" too. Every update changes the headline.
Which is why I always give OPs a chance to fix it. When I post one myself, I'm re-checking it every time I go in to read new comments.
The only thing really forbidden are headlines that are obviously editorialized.
Doesn't seem fair to put that onus on the user.
Least we can change post titles here.
Sounds fair, its insane news articles read like Twitter feeds these days.
Thanks, fixed
i heard they were sending more today, and apparently US is unlikely able to defend karage island , its a fools errand. also wasting anti-missiles missile defense to destroy cheap drones and iranian missiles, also taking away AA resources from israel.
also taking away AA resources from israel
This part I am pretty OK with TBH. The Iron Dome is part of the reason why Israel does what it does while essentially saying, "what are you going to do about it?".
never get involved in a land war in Asia
I'm sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
As you wish.
In the language of the risk assessments and wargames analyses done in this scenario, we shall refer to these troops as "chum".
Desert people in their desert.
They are severely underestimated.
Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.
And he must finish the announcement with "Now watch this drive".
As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.
That is the protocol.
If we can get Trump to say “Now watch this drive” then maybe things won’t be too bad…
Trump can only wish he were as slick as Bush
That's gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They've been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment...
This is not going to be a full scale invasion. For that they need way more soldiers. 5000 is enough to take some islands, run some raids on the coast or do some special ops bs. If they send more we maybe see something bigger.
Oh they might be intending to capture that strait to minesweep it and open it back up. Which will probably continuously cost lives of those holding it while boats get targeted by drones anyways.
Kharg is the most likely. 90% of Irans oil exports go through that island and the US has just bombed it hard, while the units currently moved are specialized in taking islands. Other then that in the Strait of Hormuz Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunbs are decent targets, as the UAE claims them and taking them would be useful to secure shipping a bit better.
If you wanted to secure the Strait somewhat Hormozgan province would have to be taken. With a population of nearly 2million, that is not going to happen with 5000 men. Maybe raids though.
5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.
Damn, what a way to go.
did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.
all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a "reason to do it" and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.
Americans don't learn.
Spare the Marines and send ICE, think millions in savings not having to pay out those deferred signing bonuses.
The window of opportunity to get out of this situation in the USA is closing fast, and if it's not seized soon, this mess is going to last decades, assuming a lot of deaths and an absurd amount of money that the country no longer has like it did decades ago. The shit is going to fall on everyone.
I'm pretty sure the window is already closed. This is our second war with Iran in under a year. Both of which were started by the US/Israel; while we were actively negotiating with Iran. After the first war, we bragged about how the negotiation was a genius move by us to catch Iran with a surprise attack. The last time we had a major treaty with Iran, we unilaterally tore it up; and none of the other signatories stepped up to try and make Iran whole.
The 12 day war ended when we decided to end it. Iran agreed because no one likes getting bombed, and they assumed we had done all we had the stomach to do. However, this type of stop-and-go conflict massively favors the US. Iran's strength lies in a sustained war of attrition. Deplete our air defense systems faster than we can resupply them. Disrupt the oil market long enough to cause global shortages. Draw us into a war against an insurgency. None of this is effective if they let us decide when the conflict pauses.
Their actions show this. Mining the straight of Hormuz and bombing oil fields are not the type of action you take for a conflict you don't plan on lasting. Appoint the son of the leader we assisinated as your new leader. Those are decisions that will take months to reverse.
Also, I should mention that the current leader of Iran just had his family killed by us. And Iran was just in the middle of an internal political crisis that conveniently goes away in the face of an external one.
I don't see how we get Iran to agree to end the war without us offering some major concessions.
It's Vietnam all over again.
Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;
it's government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;
there is no "South Iran";
and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;
unlike boomers and those older, young men haven't been drafted for 50 years;
oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;
but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.
Persia is also the 2nd oldest civilization that survives until today, after China. I think they know how to fight in their land better than anyone else.
both china and india gets free passage through the strait from iran apparently, they are friendly to iran.
afghanistan, 80s,90s, bush years.
Vietnam v2.0: Iraq
Vietnam v.3.0: Afghanistan
Vietnam v.4.0: Iran
Then sucking will continue until the Americans learn!