Indicators the military is planning something.

[AKIron]

We are being cautious in Iran as well we should. The people there need to lead in every step of throwing off the yoke of their oppression. We should only ever be seen as helping in this.

[icepac]

More ch47s, blackhawks, and V22s. 

When I moved to Myrtle Beach, I never expected so much military air traffic.   

Might have to keep flightaware up to see.

[Eagler]

We are being cautious in Iran as well we should. The people there need to lead in every step of throwing off the yoke of their oppression. We should only ever be seen as helping in this.

However we are seen in this, everyone but the most ignorant knows what's up...

What we claim others do to us when it's convenient to make such claims..influence others politics/government..

Iran like Ukraine isn't worth one US life..not really sure how many US $$$ should be spent either..it is not like we get a choice..they lie to win and do whatever strikes their pee brain once they get in...

Eagler

[AKIron]

What's up is Iranians have had enough after more than 45 years of Islamic oppression. If we intervene it will be without our boots on the ground.

[Eagler]

What's up is Iranians have had enough after more than 45 years of Islamic oppression. If we intervene it will be without our boots on the ground.

Yep our place is to overthrow governments that don't like us..and put in one that does
.see Ukraine 2014 for a sample..

Or maybe it's to slow the bleeding from the death by a 1000 cuts known as  BRICS..



I won't bet against boots in both Ukraine and Iran...depends on how big the distraction needs to be..

Eagler

[rabbidrabbit]

Yep our place is to overthrow governments that don't like us..and put in one that does
.see Ukraine 2014 for a sample..

Or maybe it's to slow the bleeding from the death by a 1000 cuts known as  BRICS..



I won't bet against boots in both Ukraine and Iran...depends on how big the distraction needs to be..

Eagler

You would benefit from doing deeper research into narratives and their sources.  It's easy to run with narratives from one politically convenient perspective but everything has bias and many let themselves buy into false narratives because they don't use critical thought with all information instead of perspectives they don't have a proclivity towards.

[AKIron]

Iran has long been a threat to stability in that region. Most of us in the US would greatly welcome a change in regime there. We alone won't overthrow the Ayatollah but we likely will help more directly than we have so far. When the time is right.

[rabbidrabbit]

Iran has long been a threat to stability in that region. Most of us in the US would greatly welcome a change in regime there. We alone won't overthrow the Ayatollah but we likely will help more directly than we have so far. When the time is right.

This is the decision point at hand.  By all accounts Trump was about to order the strikes on Jan 14th but changed his mind at the last minute given the regime had quashed the riots by brutally killing thousands and suggested it would discontinue it's nuke program.  From there, the build up of resources has continued and Iran has rejected terms that would involve discontinuing their nuke program.  So, Trump's decision is whether the risk of escalation is worth the potential reward of destabilizing the regime enough that internal struggles bring down the regime.  It's a tough call that could go either way but we are now getting to the point where something is going to happen soon or we taco.

[AKIron]

Israel has great interest in this also and is no doubt involved. When a zealot calls you a great or small Satan that must be destroyed and then develops nukes you pay attention.

[rabbidrabbit]

Israel has great interest in this also and is no doubt involved. When a zealot calls you a great or small Satan that must be destroyed and then develops nukes you pay attention.

No doubt Israel really wants the US to help help them finish what was started last fall.  The question of whether we will is likely to be answered soon.

[Eagler]

The seed of hired Iranian assassination plans has already been sown..

Wouldn't put it past Israel to get it all going one way or another..

Eagler

[AKIron]

When you consider Iran has for decades supported and supplied Hamas and Hezbollah I'm not surprised they want it to end either.

[icepac]

Boom!

[RUSH1]

However we are seen in this, everyone but the most ignorant knows what's up...

What we claim others do to us when it's convenient to make such claims..influence others politics/government..

Iran like Ukraine isn't worth one US life..not really sure how many US $$$ should be spent either..it is not like we get a choice..they lie to win and do whatever strikes their pee brain once they get in...

Eagler

A little shortsighted when it comes to Iran, don't ya think?  Where were the boots on the ground when we took out their nuclear capabilities and soothed tensions in the region never seen, since when?

Like Venezuela, a huge majority (over 80%) of Iranians want regime change, and in a good way (a non authoritarian, non Islamic Republic form of government).  From a national defense standpoint alone, neither opportunity for regime change should be wasted.     

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

I seem to remember reading about some european nation helping some fledgling nation throw off the shackles of some tyrannical european nation 245-250 years or so ago. Wonder if they were wrong about regime change, too.........................