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Comments: Shahryar, https://x.com/franktianxie/status/2094487186888348002 Here is one source ☝️ Cude just touched $90 as I had suspected- up almost 4.5% for the day
Comments: War is back on - Iran has successfully pulled the orange puke back into kinetic action - I suspect oil > $90 ![[JjiZYUv]](https://i.imgur.com/JjiZYUv.jpeg)
Comments: Shahryar: https://x.com/hamidrezaaz/status/2094702141982069142 For latest Iran analysis give this guy a follow on X. He’s by far one of the most even keel analysts out there n very thorough. But the number of missiles are from US' own announcements.
Comments: Shahryar jAn, I always wondered why patriot missile counts are even numbers. Now I know: "they fire two at a time" What a waste of money! Unbelievable!
Comments: Shahryar jAn, I am almost certain that Reza got those numbers from X. But I did see a video that corroborates most of the numbers (but not all) that Reza posted. They also reached the conclusion that US fired 4 Pac-3s per incoming missile. They said US used 96-120 PAC-3s. Reza's 160 is an upward estimate yet! I'll see if I can find the video.
Comments: Mamnoon Shahryar jAn. Reza is a huge pain in the ....  I was away visiting my mom and helping my brother with her care. Hoping to bring here here soon.
Comments: "When purchased internationally, individual PAC-3 MSE missiles often reach $6 million to $10 million each" 🤣 Imagine all the morons (arab, japanese, Koreans, etc.) who paid to buy these for protection. 😂
Comments: Faramara JAn,
Comments: Reza, they are not telling the truth. Forgetting about how this war and Trump's being pushes the entire world toward China and Russia, this war is weakening the economic prosperity of America by draining it from all its weapons. I guarantee you that once this is all over, they will go back to the same routine, contract the same corrupt military industry to recreate the same impotent weapons. This means for a decade or more, all USA' economic might would have to be wasted on useless weapons contracts. Then to avoid complete bankruptcy, they will go begging for money which means like a whore they will sell D.C. to foreign entities, making the US government's hostage crisis even deeper.
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Comments: So Iran hit Jordan airbases (2 of em) in two successive waves. On the first wave they sent 32 missiles along with one way drones. Out of 32 missiles only 8 were carrying real explosives, the rest had firecrackers in them. In a single attack US had to deploy 10% of its current stock to intercept only few - all the hypersonic ones with real payloads hit their targets. This is from a source inside CENTCOM, Reports claim the US Army launched between 96 and 160 PAC 3 MSE interceptors from Patriot batteries in Jordan tonight against an estimated 32 to 40 Iranian ballistic missiles. That means roughly 3 to 4 interceptors were used for every incoming missile.
Comments: Not really 🤣🤣🤣
Comments: I finally had some time to write. Did you guys miss me? :)
Comments: Now, to the G20. Trump invited Russia to the G20 without telling anyone. ![[rofl]](https://cdn.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/rofl.gif "Rofl - :lol:") When the europeans found out, they refused to take a collective photo at the end, waited for russian representative to leave and they took a photo on the side themselves. ![[smile]](https://cdn.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif "Smile - :)") When asked why did you invite the russians, Trump said: We are friends with everyone. Everyone likes me. ![[biggrin]](https://cdn.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif "Big Grin - :D") Now what was Putin doing at the same time, he was signing a partnership treaty with China and Iran. That is how much he thought of the G20. In my opinion a great news is that Russia, China, Iran, and India are meeting in Kazakhstan to essentially define the new world order. This will define a multi-polar world that is not taken hostage by a singular pheromone. In my opinion a multi-polar world is a lot more likely to bring peace and prosperity than a uni-polar order run by an immoral hegemony. How USA administration reacts to this in immensely important to the prosperity of this country. If they take an adversarial stance aiming to revive the unipolar word, we are looking at WWIII. But if they adapt, USA can remain still a super power in a world with several superpowers. Door #2, please.
Comments: Iran is all out baiting US/Israel to restart. The latter are in a tough spot. If they restart, they stand to lose a ton. Just in the last exchange US used 120 PAC 3 Patriot missiles. These each cost $4-5.3M. So, half a billion went up in useless defense missiles. Add to this the damage that Iran caused, the cost of the minor escalation (as trump called it) is well over a trillion. Aa a reminder, a complete, newly produced Patriot PAC-3 missile system battery costs over $1 billion, which typically includes roughly $400 million for the ground system components (such as radar and command stations) and about $600 million to $690 million for the initial load of missiles. How many of these has IRGC destroyed? Now, the other option US/Israel have is doing nothing. This will essentially hand over not just the strait of Hormuz but the entire west Asia to Iran. Tough choice. If I were Trump, the sane thing to do would be to lick my wounds and opt for door number 2. The consequences of Door #1 is unthinkable. Simply put, this was the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of USA, but may be even the world. He should not have started the war.
Comments: 2 crude oil tankers struck within minutes in Hormuz overnight, risk agency says Two crude oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday evening, Greece-based maritime risk organization Marisks said on Tuesday. A South Korean-owned vessel was hit just minutes after a Saudi-flagged tanker, both on their way out of the Persian Gulf via southern shipping lanes touted as open and safe by the Trump administration. The U.K. Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Operations Center (UKMTO) said late Monday that it had received a report of an incident 17 nautical miles east of Khasab, Oman, along the U.S. Navy's so-called southern corridor out of the gulf. A tanker reported being struck by three unknown projectiles at 8 p.m. local time, UKMTO said.
Comments: She just deleted the post apparently ![[P7jNYxF]](https://i.imgur.com/P7jNYxF.jpeg)
Comments: Looks like Iran just hit another ship. It was a very large Saudi ship under US military protection. There were F35As and helicopters in the air for protection. But Trump has been quiet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqNJIxVuig
Comments: “ خبر دارین اون اسکول ملیجک و اکابر کجا هست” People like that would never accept their mistakes, nor would they apologize for what they have done to others and their country. I’m sure they blame others and digging deeper into their dilution!
Comments: A remarkable story in Monday's Washington Post dramatizes how deeply the Iran war has degraded the U.S. military's ability to fend off attacks by adversaries elsewhere in the world. The story is based on the leak of a little-known classified document, which itself signifies that we've reached a new stage in the growing turmoil among the senior officer corps over the chaotic reign of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The leaked document reveals that the three four-star commanders in charge of U.S. military operations in Europe, the Pacific, and South America, as well as the Navy's top admiral, all informed Hegseth that because so many of their planes, ships, and other weapons systems have been diverted to the war in Iran, they could no longer perform their tasks if a war broke out in their part of the world. These senior officers were responding to the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book. As Post reporters Alex Horton and Tara Copp describe the book: The SDOB, typically produced twice monthly, outlines the worldwide availability of U.S. warships, aircraft, personnel, and weapons systems. It reflects the president's priorities for the force, which are carried out by the defense secretary. In response to that August edition, the top officers issued a comment of "non-concur." This means they no longer had the number of ships, planes, personnel, or other weapons systems that, according to the SDOB's calculations, would be needed to carry out the president's priorities in the event of a war. These priorities spell out what steps the commanders should be able to take if, say, China assaulted or blockaded Taiwan, or North Korea invaded South Korea, or Russia mounted an incursion in the Baltics, or an attack of a certain scale was mounted against Israel. |
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