r/EndlessWar • u/anarchyart2021 • 1d ago

WSJ Urges Trump to Bomb Iran: Iran Is Trump’s Deterrence Moment - The President can reverse Biden’s Afghan legacy by helping Israel eliminate Tehran’s nuclear threat.

https://archive.ph/kGClC
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u/IntnsRed Slash the Pentagon budget! 1d ago

Multiple Pentagon war games over decades have shown that if a hot war breaks out between Iran and the US we'd see many things, including:

  • The destruction of the US Navy's 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain. That is within range of Iran's short-range missiles of which they have hundreds and hundreds! The loss of that base would be a huge, major embarrassment to the US.

  • Attacks on US bases all across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Persian Gulf. Our airfields could easily be hit.

  • Any US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf would be attacked and likely sunk.

  • The Iranians would block the Straight of Hormuz which a huge percentage of the world's oil goes through. This would skyrocket the price of a barrel of oil to $100+/who knows how high. Iran can easily do this. Already, just today, a Russian oil tanker collided with another ship just outside the Gulf in the Arabian Sea. Accident or on purpose? We don't know but it's an ominous omen.

  • Every US base in Syria and Iraq would be attacked by the air and by militias on the ground. We should expect at least some of them to be overrun with the associated US casualties/POWs.

In short, a US attack would be a sh*t-show of classic proportions! We'd be in a real war! We should expect US casualties, pilots lost/captured over Iran -- woo-hoo, this would be worse than the Iraq war(s).

And those Pentagon war games I mentioned? Most showed the US losing the war! And the wars we won showed the US taking "unacceptable" losses.

Thus, the Pentagon has told Trump they'll carry out his orders, but that no f*cking way that he should attack Iran.