We should probably wait and check publicly available chats from our Defense Secretary to make any conclusions. However, before that, private plane spotters and ATC tape and ACARS data listeners and private satellite companies have pieced together some interesting movements of more than 1/3 of the B2 Stealth Bomber fleet, as well as multiple cargo planes and KC-135 tankers all to the Indian Ocean. At least 8 B2s in 3 different flight groups have been moved in the past week from Missouri (all 20 bombers in the fleet are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri) to the British island Diego Garcia to join the cargo and refueling aircraft. All of these movements come on the heels of Def Sec publicly announcing that the USS Carl Vinson's strike group was moving to join the Harry S. Truman's group already deployed near Yemen. Signs U.S. Massing B-2 Spirit Bombers In Diego Garcia
Klippenstein has been on this beat for a bit: The Iran War Plan My understanding is they want to basically make the case the Houthis are acting on the orders of Iran and to justify attacking Iran if the Houthis keep doing their thing. They also want to escalate so they dont look like they are just doing what Biden did.
If the US does bomb Iran the most likely targets will be the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities. An interesting question is whether we will also take out the factories that Iran is using to produce the drones that it's selling to Russia for use in Ukraine. Ukraine says Russia launched 8,060 Iran-developed drones during war That was from last September the total is probably significantly higher by now. How Iran's drones supercharged Russia's 1,000-day fight in Ukraine
Good point since it's becoming increasingly obvious that Trump is pulling a Neville Chamberlain although that comparison is somewhat unfair to Chamberlain since he genuinely thought that Hitler would stop with the Sudetenland. Putin has made it clear that wants all of Ukraine plus the other countries that were either part of or controlled by the former Soviet Union and Czarist Russian Empire.
Trump doesn’t like Iran. I’d be worried if I were them. He’s a little unhinged and wants to teach anyone who opposes him a lesson. He said Ukraine is flirting with WW3 so maybe he’s doing it as a warning. Attacking Iran is worse than the Russia/Ulraine situation
Planet Labs satellite imagery confirming the arrival of the B2s. Three shown in the image with multiple shelters also pictured.
Iran has responded by sending out this propaganda video of its "missile tunnels" that they have expanded following some of the Israeli strikes. Seems as though Iran taking Trump's threat deadline seriously. NOTE: The B-2 carries a special ordinance that is believed to be capable of penetrating the tunnels in Iran.
We don’t have the power to hand them Ukraine. We only have the power to increase Ukraine’s ability to resist, not to eliminate it.
Not sure why we would. . . Oh, wait. MAGA. Yeah, they'd do it for show. Only reason you would as Iran is on the ropes right now. Their proxies in Lebanon are crushed, their ally in Syria is kaput, Israel has never been stronger and is about to ally officially with the Gulf States. Not to mention horrible economy, internal strife and rebel groups on the edges blowing shit up. Just wait them out and watch it die on the vine.
Some Iranians are urging their leaders to attack Diego Garcia. Will Dimwit Donald fold like a cheap suit? Iran urged to strike Diego Garcia base ‘immediately’
Well, if they do that, then that makes our decisions real, real easy, doesn’t it? And what exactly are they going to conduct this attack with? The same missiles and drones that were so devastatingly effective against Israel? And does their defensive plan for our inevitable counterattack include those really cool Russian missiles that contemptuously swatted down all of the Israeli warplanes without taking a single friendly casualty?
The guy who’s been struggling for three years to put away his much smaller, non-nuclear-armed neighbor? That’s the guy who’s threatening us, you say?
Well, the regime anyway. I have absolutely no quarrel with the Iranian people. If the regime makes it necessary for us to put in a bomb in every single one their IRGC headquarters, religious police station, etc, then that would not break my heart one bit.
