pretty sure the game has run out.....we can expect Trump to do his usual Sunday "we have had great discussions and are close to a deal" bullshit tomorrow, but the markets aren't buying it anymore Iran has choked Trump, and is in total control of the situation and we and the world, are going to suffer Not gonna lie......waiting on Iran regime to outright call for Trumps unconditional surrender lol

President Trump yesterday: "Their missiles are mostly decimated; they have some, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had." WaPo today: "Iran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began." washingtonpost.com/national-…

I sincerely do not understand the arguments that the US/Israel has "won" or is "winning" the Iran war. Strategically speaking, the most important outcomes of the war so far are that Iran controls the Strait and the Iranian government has become much more hardline. It has also probably gained more support from the Iranian population, i.e. it is more entrenched than it was before the war. Now, has the US killed vastly more Iranians (mostly civilians and conscripts) than Iranians have killed Americans? Sure. That's nothing of which to be proud. And more to the point, it doesn't entail the achievement of any strategic goals. If it did, the US won the wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Tactical achievements are not strategic victory.

What a profoundly dishonest argument. Hillary Clinton didn't go to court dozens of times in an attempt to overturn votes, didn't call a state official and pressure him to find her several thousand votes, and didn't have her supporters storm the Capitol. She also conceded.

You're making things up entire Robin, and you know that. NOBODY was saying "the blockade won't work", people were and ARE saying "the blockade will not produce the necessary results unable to be achieved by kinetic strikes in a viable timeline". Completely strawmanning to not have egg on your face from a flawed proposition.

Hey Doug is the strait open yet

The Trump game is getting old. This is supposed to be an attempt to manipulate stock prices for Monday but I don't think people are foolish enough to fall for it. This is not happening. What responsible Navy commander would place his ship & soldiers in this kind of danger?

Folks, this will not happen. Any intrusion into the territorial waters of Iran by a nation currently waging war against it will most likely be met with lethal force. But the psychopathology of white supremacy distorts the cognitive function of those afflicted by it.

Clearly this is a move from Trump to force Iran’s hand to blame them for restarting the war. Not saying it’s trumps fault they’re stuck (although kinda), but this seems like a great way to guarantee retaliation from Iran. Of course Iran has significant leverage by holding these ships hostage. Morally abhorrent? Yes. Strategically valuable? Yes. So letting Trump waltz in and free all these vessels is not going to happen without Iran retaliating.

My concern with talking points like these ("Iran is desperate and its capabilities are absurd when compared to US military power") is that they presuppose the events of 28 February-8 April did not happen.

Multiple signs new US strikes on Iran imminent in the coming days: —leaks of new military briefings to Trump —US hypersonic missiles deployed to Gulf —3 US carriers poised to strike —US-Iran talks going nowhere The Escalation Trap has Trump in its grip

Robin has been boasting for weeks that the blockade is a brilliant strategy and will weaken Iran, but he made the same mistake the entire US administration has made, failing to understand Iran’s position Iran doesn’t care about revenue right now, they are fighting an existential threat to survival and they will hold out and go the distance to ensure the US and Israel never attacks them again. All they have to do is wait, meanwhile the US has achieved absolutely nothing and oil is out of control. Trump administration ia looking at the biggest US military mistake in history and has no exit from this absolute dumpster fire

Another record high! I hope the Boomers cashing in their 401ks are having fun and living the good life. Thank you President Trump!

Khamenei's latest message is essentially a declaration of Iranian victory, while suggesting that the “humiliating defeat" of the US marks a new era geopolitically, both for the region and globally. While this will be seen as a major exaggeration, it could turn out to be a major inflection point geopolitically, certainly for the region in which Iran's position has become significantly strengthened strategically, while the US security umbrella is increasingly seen as ineffective and unreliable, but also globally as American global primacy cannot be sustained if much weaker powers can not only deny the US victories, but also startegically defeat it by relying on cheaper technology, assymetric tactics, and the use of geography. But none of this will come to pass if Iran loses the peace - meaning, it needs to negotiate a new regional order that is accepted by regional powers and not contested. (Iran's current gains remain effectively contested as we speak). That will not be done militarily, but diplomatically. And that phase has not even properly begun yet.