Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The mission of keeping the Strait of Hormuz safe from Iranian attacks on civilian ships is a burdensome and dangerous mission. The US needs to focus on protecting its carriers until the Iranian threat is further diminished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIynxSI7ZQg
Iran wants to make clear that if you mess with them, they will greatly damage the global economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdABz6qsewA
Despite Iran’s military and leadership being battered badly, Iran is likely willing to outlast the US. Many Iranians, even one’s who do not like the regime, may see the US and Israel as trying to destroy Iran, and may support fighting and not giving in to Trump’s demands. Iran has aggressive goals of its own–to convince the gulf states that the US isn’t there to protect them, but to act aggressively toward Iran, and to reject US protection in the future.
Iran’s regime is fighting for its life. The US is fighting for potential security benefits. The US is likely to give up first even if its military is winning the war. Iran will likely get nukes now, because of this attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Um9KyI5mc
Traitor terrorists are striking the US homeland, likely inspired by attacks on Iran. These deaths are likely deaths in the war on Iran.
“First, a deadly shooting being investigated as terrorism devastated a Virginia university in a military town. Hours later, a targeted vehicle-ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue left congregants shaken to their core.
The shooting at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was committed by a veteran who was a convicted ISIS supporter. The attacker was able to kill one person and injure two others before a classroom of ROTC students subdued and killed him, the FBI said.
Then, a vehicle rammed into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township in an attack the FBI said targeted the Jewish community, carried out by a US citizen who was born in Lebanon, the Department of Homeland Security said. The synagogue had been on high alert for potential violence in the weeks before the building became engulfed in flames after the suspect drove through it with a rifle and a large number of explosives, officials said.
Though the motive in the attack is still unknown, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said there is a clear “nexus” between the Iran war and the attack, adding it’s no coincidence the suspect targeted a synagogue named Temple Israel.
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Less than two weeks earlier in Austin, Texas, a shooter wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the Iranian flag killed three people and injured over a dozen others in the city’s bustling entertainment district. Though the motive is still under investigation, authorities are investigating whether the shooter was inspired in part by US and Israeli strikes on Iran that weekend, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the case said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/violent-attacks-michigan-synagogue-virginia-085604064.html
There’s not a clear place or building to take over for Iranian revolutionaries.
Iran has a lot of manpower to suppress protests or revolutionaries.
If factions within the government or militaries want to rebel or implement a coup, they have a chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oMkL0QW4U
“The first six days of war in Iran cost U.S. taxpayers at least $11.3 billion in munitions alone, according to Pentagon estimates reviewed by lawmakers, and experts say the ongoing cost could increase exponentially. That total does not include the cost of operating and maintaining the military force engaged in the war or battle damage sustained from Iran’s attacks.
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While initial cost estimates of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were around $50 to $60 billion, they ended up costing a combined $8 trillion, according to analysis by Costs of War.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/much-iran-war-costing-taxpayers-212311982.html
“After spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a fleet of new vehicles with Donald Trump-inspired paint jobs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reportedly don’t want to drive them.
Last summer, a slick promotional video captured a Ford Raptor pickup truck and GMC Yukon SUV rolling around Washington, D.C., with music from DaBaby playing over close-up images of navy blue paint jobs with red-and-white racing stripes and a gold seal.
The words “defend the homeland” appear on the side, and “President Donald J. Trump” is printed in gold on a rear window.
Homeland Security’s preview of its new fleet — with paint jobs designed to look like the president’s private jet — cost more than $700,000. The government ultimately spent more than $2 million buying up hundreds of new cars with custom wraps, according to contracts reviewed by The Independent.
But officers don’t want them
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“ICE has never had marked vehicles,” one person familiar with the purchases told the outlet. “In talking to people, they’re like, ‘We don’t want to use these, we can’t.’”
Another said it’s “ridiculous” to drive marked cars because “you don’t want to advertise what you’re doing.”
“We’re just hiding them in a parking garage somewhere because we don’t want to drive them,” the person reportedly told the outlet. “Who wants to drive the marked vehicles?”
Roughly 25 newly delivered ICE vehicles are sitting at an immigration detention facility in California, unused, according to the Examiner.
ICE has denied any suggestion that its new vehicles aren’t being used.
“Any allegation that these ICE vehicles are not being used is FALSE. ICE is a law enforcement agency, and like all other law enforcement agencies, has a fleet of vehicles that includes those with ICE branding,” a spokesperson wrote”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-denies-flashy-cars-hiding-223005933.html
The administration did not expect Iran to respond like this, even though this was the most reasonable guess as to what Iran would do…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB935Y_e_sk
Trump might be ruining our secret strategy to beat Asia…stealing the best Asians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE9GPIhQJJQ
Iran’s military is split up into regional commands that each have the resources to fight independently if they lose contact with leaders or the rest of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBf3-opjhbk