No. of Recommendations: 10
So if they're blowing up stuff in Riyadh and Haifa, that's SA and Israel's problem. Not ours. We accomplished all our objective. Accomplished them weeks ago. Now Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, at any time ever in the future. We also obliterated their missile program, as long as you ignore the thousand or so missiles (and more drones) they have left. And we've insured that they won't be able to support terror proxies in the region ever again. We did it!
I have tried to figure out what Iran’s response will/might be. The only thing I can come up with is blow up everybody else’s oil.
Crossposted & jumped from Liquid Lounge over on that other set of boards:
We are on the threshold of another “obliteration”, this time for war crimes-worthy sort of things like targeting civilian infrastructure and worse.
So I got to thinking, what would Iran’s response be, should tonight’s deadline at 8:00 and Trump not chicken out *(I’m sorry, delay because negotiations are going so well.)
If I were Iran, I would just target all the oil facilities elsewhere: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and the other half dozen countries within drone range which may be lesser oil producers. My reasoning would be simple: I cannot defeat the US military directly, but I can injure America greatly by pushing up the price of oil worldwide and bringing it in for universal condemnation. Sure it would hurt me, but I’m gonna be hurt no matter what.
Doing so with drones is pretty easy; Iran is said to have thousands of them (in addition to its missile stocks) and the effects would be instantaneous. More than that, if I’m able to math, the oil in tankers loaded 6 weeks ago, as the hostilities began, is now at its destination, and after that the pipeline is pretty empty. There might be some residual stuff laying around but mostly the strangulation of the Strait will start to show up bigly.
Make it worse. Send the financial system on which the US and other allies systems are built into turmoil. Play the “Oh yeah? Watch this!” Card.
Buckle up. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
