Pasha
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
Thanks I stand corrected. There is evidence of 1 bombing. I hope the army command will hear this news soon and not empty East Asia of all its standoff ammunition.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
I think the closure of the strait is rather exaggerated. The real threat is Iran quite clearly being able to blow up the fields/refineries/pipelines/ports themselves in a way that would leave the strait rather unimportant. By closing the strait they just got to demonstrate how quickly they can do incredible damage without anything irreversible.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
The US military has caused vastly more destruction to the Iranian leadership and military than the Iranian military has caused to the US leadership and military
Is there some mind virus affecting Americans that cause them to lose every single war since Vietnam in the same way? The point of a military is not to masturbate over KD ratios it’s to achieve strategic and ultimately political objectives. You can kill a lot of people and if you are still losing nobody gives a shit.
US left its bases because they are getting blown the fuck up every single day with no functional AD and radar left after about the first week. In an “existential war” they could indeed try to maintain those bases with gigantic casualties but that’s hardly a consolation is it?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
This link has a couple photos of planes loading JDAMs in UK airbases. No evidence that they are actually flying over Iran with it.
Given that by far the most bombing has been concentrated in coastal areas it’s quite possible that they have some corridors that doesn’t need standoff munitions. This was reported yesterday by the way: https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/us-diverts-jassm-er-missiles-to-iran-risking-deterrence-vs-china/
Whenever there is a big bombing run near Iranian cities we get a decent amount of photos/videos.
This is such a brain dead analysis. What’s the US military “dominating” exactly? What did they achieve after a whole month apart from killing a bunch of useless geriatrics? Every single US base in the region is either abandoned or is operating under routine fire and losing planes on the ground daily. The aircraft carriers are hiding behind the landmass of Oman and Saudi Arabia. Regime change is obviously not coming. Kurds are not rebelling. I have not seen any evidence at all that American bombers can operate over Iran without resorting to standoff ammunition (or well, getting shut down). Fantastically expensive and limited weapon systems for all of this nonsense is mainly being transferred from Asia-Pacific.
Unless Trump can pull off some incredible feat of deal making/chickening out and salesmanship, this is turning into one of the most spectacular military quagmires in modern history. The only consolidation will be that there won’t even be an option of US fighting China anymore so the world might become a safer place for it.
Edit: welp the whole discussion became quickly moot as team domination and lethality once again just gave up, seemingly bored of dominating. I thought I could stop having this idiotic discussions when the exact same thing happened in Bab el Mandeb pretty recently but not so lucky yet. Looking forward to the next round of domination
Pasha
Defend Kebab
15d ago
I have never met an international school kid who isn’t a turbolib. Half your suggestions are about shielding the kid from the racial underclasses, not from wokeness which is the English speaking world’s current elite ideology. You cannot shield from it by coming closer to the educated elite.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
15d ago
Interesting. Peru in my experience is a much poorer country than its economic numbers suggest due to the nature of its mining wealth and extreme plutocratic capture. You do feel the difference clearly just being there vs being in other countries with supposedly similar gdp/ppp per capita.
I do remember that the lockdown started about the same days as in most of Europe and it was really harsh in theory. No travel between cities/provinces or abroad. Every store not selling food closed. Constant police harassment on the street. Double masking mandatory basically everywhere etc. But I was watching Peruvian TV at the time and I also remember convoys of thousands of desperate people walking 100s kms to go back to their home villages as they were destitute in the cities without work. And every other store reopened in a week and started selling some sort of foodstuff to be allowed to operate. Many locals were secretly still doing their professions. The amount of misery around was really palpable and sad. I believe a lot of lower middle class people survived because the government allowed dipping into your mandatory pension contributions, which of course will have consequences later on..
Also at the time I assumed the corona death numbers there had some relation to the general dirtiness/dustiness/dryness and high altitude of almost the entire country. Your lungs take a real beating just being outside for while, I cannot imagine living in a Peruvian city my entire life. My nose starts bleeding regularly everytime I spend some time on the street.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
16d ago
It is funny that you bring up Peru. I have (thorough a strange set of coincidences) spent the first big lockdown wave in Peru for many months and nothing I have experienced later on in Europe (definitely not trivial) even came close to the intensity of the Peruvian lockdown. How do you know about this if I may ask?
No the obvious conclusion is that all those US forward bases are utterly useless in a real war and they are practically out of AD and standoff munition with no way to manufacture more. Hence: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/on-rare-china-visit-taiwans-opposition-leader-calls-for-reconciliation
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