WELL THE STINKY STUFF JUST HIT THE AIR CIRCULATION DEVICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

[Deke Thornton]

I am specifically concerned about our troops at al Asad, Iraq, Union III, Baghdad, and Nineweh Province, Iraq, and at US Embassy, Baghdad. All are within easy mortar, 107 & 240mm rocket, and complex attack range of Iranian proxies (Privately Mobilized Forces or PMFs, armed and well-trained since 2014) and within easy range of small ballistic missiles.

Especially since Iranian C&C is badly disrupted. It doesn't take too much deductive reasoning to realize that even a proxy attack on US forces would likely trigger US involvement towards Iran itself which would be a problem the Iranians do not need at this point, but deductive reasoning isn't high on the list of prerequisites to become a fanatic militant in a regional Iranian proxy.

 

[ladder13]

Looks like Ali Kookameme borrowed from the Russian playbook by bombing an Israeli hospital.

 

[Greyman50]

Guessing his days are numbered…..

 

[ladder13]

Guessing his days are numbered….

He’s a bit old for those 72.

 

[Greyman50]

A few of these would take care of him….

 

[ladder13]

A few of these would take care of him….

The end is near.

 

[Xfuzz]

Watching and reading the various news sources I find it interesting that
the Israelis started a gig they can't finish. Information indicates that one,
or more, of USA's bunker bombs will end the threat.
I think BB knew this and expected The USA to jump in with both feet.

 

[biku324]

Before getting all happy about bombing Iran, recall that it shares a border and Islam (albeit more Sunn'i than Shi'a) with Pakistan. You remember Pakistan, correct? Where Osama bin Laden lived for a decade 2 miles from their military academy? Pakistan has 150 to 200 deliverable nukes. One stupid DC statement about a 'crusade' or in any way suggesting the US was bombing Iran because it is a Muslim country or even that Iran 'deserves it' because of Islamic leadership and all bets are off.

"Me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousins; me, my brother, and my cousins against the outsider." - Bedouin saying widely distributed in Islam since the 1960s.

The troubles and hatreds of the region (Middle East, South Asia, northern Africa) are not ever going to be resolved by us. Ever.

Iraq, 2018/2019 as a duty station
Somalia, 2023/2024 as a duty station
Incidental/TDY in a number of regional countries 2018-2024.

 

[ladder13]

When you see her surrounded on all sides by enemies, look up, deliverance is near.

Great time to be living in.

 

[biku324]

Reeking irrelevancies in 2025. More Facebook drivel.............

Sure. I guess 34 sailors killed and 171 wounded by three separate attacks from 1357 hours to 1530 hours by rockets, 30mm cannonfire, napalm, torpedoes, and 50 caliber machine guns should just be 'bygones,' especially since the IDF admitted they were wrong and made $3 million in reparations. In 1980 (a mere 13 years later).

We didn't start this and shouldn't finish it for those who did. I am SURE the Mossad knew about the nuclear facilities 300 feet underground (certainly the IAEA did); just as surely the IDF knew before the war they had no ordnance to reach the facilities. And they knew before their war who does have such ordnance.

 

[biku324]

A few of these would take care of him….

Forgotten about this from January 17?

BEIRUT — Months after the initial announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed today the long-awaited Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty.

The agreement, inked in a ceremony at the Kremlin, “covers all spheres, including defense, counter-terrorism, energy, finance, transport, industry, agriculture, culture, science and engineering,” according to Russian news agency TASS. https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/russia-signs-comprehensive-strategic-partnership-with-iran/

 

[65-2x2]

Looks like Ali Kookameme borrowed from the Russian playbook by bombing an Israeli hospital.

Or from Israel's Gaza playbook.

 

[ladder13]

mevurch al yedi elohim

 

[biku324]

Or from Israel's Gaza playbook.

Remember in "02 and '03 when the Japanese government was outraged by terrorists beheading Japanese journalists? Maybe just karma taking a bite...

The Hundred Head Contest: Reassessing the Nanjing Massacre

By Suzuki Chieko

Translation by James Orr

Japan Focus introduction: In late 1937, a Tokyo newspaper reported on a “hundred head contest” in which two Japanese imperial army officers competed to see who could lop off one hundred Chinese heads first during the campaign to take the Chinese capital city of Nanjing. The contest is symbolic of the perversion and loss of military discipline during the Japanese capture and occupation of the city that has come to be known variously as the Nanjing Massacre, the Rape of Nanjing, or simply the Nanjing Incident.

 

[Jäger1]

Watching and reading the various news sources I find it interesting that
the Israelis started a gig they can't finish.

Can't finish?

Or can't finish without using one of their nukes to do the job?

Or taking heavy casualties to fight their way into that complex?

The only thing I find interesting is how Americans have watched president after president, (and two in particular), allow the Mad Mullahs subjugating Iran to continue killing Americans or funding and training their terrorist proxies to do that.

Now some Americans seem to be upset that Israel has acted to take out the nuclear weapon ambitions of the country who chants "Death To The Great Satan", and who killed or wounded thousands of Americans during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I would want the administration to ask if Israel needs any support in taking nukes out of the Mad Mullah's terrorist toolbox, while we sit safe on the sidelines watching their military take the risks of doing that.

 

[Jäger1]

We didn't start this and shouldn't finish it for those who did.

When's was our signal to start and finish it after the Mad Mullahs subjugating Iran used their Quds Force and advanced IED technology to kill and maim thousands of Americans in Afghanistan.

All while chanting "Death To The Great Satan"?

"Let bygones by bygones", that's how we should respond?

Does America have a special invulnerability shield that assures us there's no way Iran with a nuclear weapon won't use it on America or give it to terrorists to use on America?

Maybe we should only act after Iran's Mad Mullahs have nuclear weapons and uses them to prove what most suspect: that those hajjis will use nuclear weapons against both Israel and America if they get them?

After all, what's hundreds of dead Americans between two partners in that famous 'nuclear treaty'

 

[Deke Thornton]

Forgotten about this from January 17?

BEIRUT — Months after the initial announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed today the long-awaited Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty.

The agreement, inked in a ceremony at the Kremlin, “covers all spheres, including defense, counter-terrorism, energy, finance, transport, industry, agriculture, culture, science and engineering,” according to Russian news agency TASS. https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/russia-signs-comprehensive-strategic-partnership-with-iran/

Dunno if you've seen the news lately, but Russia has its hands full fighting year 3 of a disastrous war they should have won in week 3. If Iran thinks they can get help from Russia, I think they're going to be disappointed- this is a country so desperate that they're buying arms from North Korea.

 

[biku324]

Dunno if you've seen the news lately, but Russia has its hands full fighting year 3 of a disastrous war they should have won in week 3. If Iran thinks they can get help from Russia, I think they're going to be disappointed- this is a country so desperate that they're buying arms from North Korea.

Yes, indeed. My point is that Iran is neither alone nor a pariah without nuclear armed allies.

Russia wants Iran free to keep producing Shahed drones for them, not using drones for defense or offense.

 

[Deke Thornton]

Yes, indeed. My point is that Iran is neither alone nor a pariah without nuclear armed allies.

Russia want Iran free to keep producing Shahed drones for them, not using drones for defense or offense.

Agreed, but Russia will absolutely never go nuclear over Iran and everyone knows it. This is a country in legitimate danger of a ground invasion by Finland, Putin knows he can only push his luck so far before everything collapses around him.

And I apologize for the tone of my earlier post- I'd meant it to be lighthearted, but in reading it again it sounds condescending. No offense intended.

 

[dockmurgw]

Remember in "02 and '03 when the Japanese government was outraged by terrorists beheading Japanese journalists? Maybe just karma taking a bite...

The Hundred Head Contest: Reassessing the Nanjing Massacre

By Suzuki Chieko

Translation by James Orr

Japan Focus introduction: In late 1937, a Tokyo newspaper reported on a “hundred head contest” in which two Japanese imperial army officers competed to see who could lop off one hundred Chinese heads first during the campaign to take the Chinese capital city of Nanjing. The contest is symbolic of the perversion and loss of military discipline during the Japanese capture and occupation of the city that has come to be known variously as the Nanjing Massacre, the Rape of Nanjing, or simply the Nanjing Incident.

On the irrelevance scale of 1 - 10, I would score this a solid 11.