We loathe some idealized image of kings, but there’s plenty of bootlickers here who don’t understand how billionaires are just a repackaged version.

They thought the initial strikes would be enough. They did not have a plan b. Trump is reduced to negotiating with himself on maga-twitter. The most competent military strategists have been replaced, which allowed Israel to goad the US into finally “pulling the trigger”. Israel is I think, getting what it wants which is cover to annex more land from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.

But you can’t safely occupy Kharg without controlling the mainland. Iran is hitting targets much farther away than Kharg.

Who cares?

Are we about to get a decade of cheap cocaine?

This seems delusional. I mean, it doesn’t seem like Russia can overrun Ukraine any time soon, but it also seems pretty clear that Ukraine isn’t regaining any lost ground.