Iran is pumping their oil? Who told you that? All Iranian ports are blocked. Yes, for now (unless we stop it) Iran has tried to move some oil out of the country to China via railway car, but the railway is easily blocked, and at best, can only carry about 5-6% of the volume carried by tanker and adds 40% to the cost of what little oil they do ship.
Iran is losing 500 billion dollars a day.
I only differ with Trump that I would have declared Iran in violation of the negotiations a month ago and bombed their infrastructure and never let up until we brought Iran to its knees. Iran will never concede defeat, they orchestrated human shields around plants as a political weapon, and now Russia is trying to help out, and now Iran says nyet on any chance of giving up nuclear stockpiles.
And now satellite images show they are fast at work trying to rebuilt their weapons factories.
So, every day that Trump delays makes his job both harder and more inevitable, giving me greater pause in Hegseth's assurances he was prepared to deal with Iran more so than Trump taking him at his word.
Like it or not, we have no choice now but to shell Iran into oblivion now, spare anyone we can, while going in with many battalions of soldiers and just take the fight to them and ram in down their throats until we win. We might lose 10,000-20,000 soldiers. Iran might lose 100,000 to 500,000. Iran is fully prepared for this, are we? If not, then WTF are we doing there?
War is not for the faint of heart.
We attacked Iran, we are in open war with Iran now, and you don't start something you are not prepared to take all the way and win no matter what the cost, otherwise, we look like complete jackasses.
None of this would be happening if not back in the early days of discovering oil there (UK I think), we had developed the oil industry there as a whole independently run operation, not state owned or operated as it is now, and made provision to shut it all down if Iran moved in there (like they did) and nationalize their oil industry.
When they kicked our Shaw out and nationalized the oil, we should have both shut down and blown up the oil fields as well as banning all export of oil from the country.
What a blind stupid deal to leave the world's largest oil reserves in the hands of 12th century bearded Mullahs who want to bully the Western World (their biggest customers) with nukes as a means toward global domination.
