US forces ready to restart combat if Iran doesn't agree deal, says Hegseth

George Santayana: 'Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.' Or for Trump & Hegseth, when you don't have an aim.

>Trump admin ready to make the situation worse for the entire world ~~if they don't get their way~~ Iran has zero incentives to give into such threats. So this is just the US screaming into the void.

We do this every week. Big threats on Thursday - Saturday. Then TACO Tuesday - repeat.

The entire admin is threatening and lecturing the flipping POPE. There is no bottom.

Its not so much of a threat as a save face. Iran wins by US escalating quicker and they are prepared to hit a US ship in blockade to make that happen. Iran will force US to send ground troops but US needs it to look like their decision.

The deal is probably already agreed on so they are just projecting strength so that they can pretend that the threats worked

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American forces in the Middle East are ready to restart combat operations if Iran does not agree to a deal. He said U.S. forces remain positioned to act and warned of consequences if Iran refuses. He also said the U.S. is enforcing a blockade targeting ships linked to Iran, with military officials stating vessels could be intercepted and force used if they do not comply.

Your profile pic is diabolical, I thought I cracked my screen

Use archive.ph

lol 🤣 YOU ARE THE PEOPLE! Your government MUST answer to YOU. Not the other way around.

Can you Americans get your shit together and do something about it please? Look to the French for inspiration Cheers

'My government' is exactly what I voted for.

When should we throw the Holy Hand Grenade on Antioch?

This is such a visually stunning insult LOL.

Both?

At this point if American forces were in Ukraine they'd be fighting under the Russian flag against Ukraine.

Start? I wasn't aware they'd stopped.

Iran is hurting plenty, but their capacity to withstand pain is far greater than a distractable leadership with midterms coming up. They also have no other option than to push for a serious security settlement, because the last two times they negotiated quietly, the US just killed everyone mid-chat. Why would they take any deal that doesn't withdraw US forces from the region? They would rightly expect to just be killed again.

How did this make Iran stronger?

Emulating the great leader...

Is that why he just shits himself instead of going?

Let's figure out how this would play out. To start, this has never happened in the history of this country where a nationwide protest using weapons has defeated the US military. If the Confederates couldn't do it with those weapons, neither could random people now when the US military exists. Let's say that people start organizing. Well you have numerous anti-privacy measures that are monitoring for these things and they tend to take action more against left-leaning organizations which this would be considered. You can't really organize then since you won't have enough people using random technology (presuming even that's not compromised) and get weapons and equipment together. But let's say this happens. Would you need to really rally everywhere to take over? Not really, you'd probably just need to take over DC and get the President and his top people. Now you need to have a metric ton of people - millions - who are all armed and get them all to DC without being monitored. Maybe use the guise of a protest. Are you going to get millions of people who all have unregistered guns to go to DC? OK let's say this happens. Now you're in DC and you're heading towards the White House. Let's presume that Trump, Vance, and the others are all there. We need to also presume that there's no escape helicopter or some other ways (ex: underground) exist where they can simply escape. Since if they escape then this defeats the attack, right? OK so they're trapped. DC has 6 military bases, Maryland has 4, New York has 5, New Jersey has 2, Virginia has 12. Emergency powers would be activated before the first bullet was fired and you'll have not only police, National Guard, but military people from 29 military bases who are all nearby converging on the location. Also jets exist. F-35 exists and has a top speed of 1,200 miles per hour. That's a half hour flight from Chicago to DC and about an hour flight from Austin, Texas. Presuming national emergency, lots of military airplanes will be immediately scrambled from half the country and converge on DC. I don't think these protesters will have anti-jet capabilities that they could sneak in. Tanks exist too. No anti-tank weapons will be available and don't forget that every single minute all these people are held at bay will mean more reinforcements and time to escape. Tactically, the more people you have in one group, the more people will get killed by every bullet fired by those defending the city. Every grenade will take out dozens of people and this also assumes we'll have military leaders managing this whole thing which we likely won't. All coups happened because of at least one of these two reasons: * the military was involved in the coup, and/or * the military did nothing to stop the coup Let's look at January 6th. If those protesters were armed and left wing, we'd have hundreds dead. The reasons why the literal big guns weren't brought to bear is because certain key people wanted this to happen. I can bet that the current regime has been continuing their policy in the first term of hollowing out the military by retiring or outright firing the old guard and getting "their" people in. So the odds of enough of the military standing down are low if they're led by those with personal loyalty to Trump and the typical soldier following orders because they're too young to know anything and that's assuming they don't even support Trump. Considering how many of them voted for him, having a coup is something that was looked up and they have plans. If there's any actual plan for anything related to Trump, it's to make sure he doesn't face any consequences and this has been apparent since the first term and it's definitely gotten worse now considering the infiltration of the judiciary. Can this happen as far as numerous Americans using 2A to storm the castle gates, so to speak? Yes. They'll all be killed with the wounded arrested. If the Confederates couldn't do it when we barely had a functioning military when the Confederates had more military experience then nobody can do it now. There's also plenty of precedence where the US killed left-wing protesters a lot more than right-wing ones (ex: Kent State). We're also not the French. The French know how to protest. We're more worried about our next paychecks. We've been squeezed too hard for too long and we don't have the energy to fight.

The French did it against a military with muskets and cannons Americans would face a modern militarized force lol

Love how everyone seems so keen to condemn the United States to the great terror.

If you take out orange dipshit and company you get jd vance as president, then Mike Johnson, Charles Grassley, then Marco rubio, then Scott besset then Pete hegesth. They literally set up a line of stupid to take over!

It's simple, they won't until a vast majority are genuinely suffering finically and experience a drastic change in standard of living. As much as American Listnookors love to go online and spout half-hearted BS about their hate for the current administration, it's purely for looks and to make themselves feel better.

They will do nothing and expect everyone to accept their apologies and move on.

Not all of us like guns or voted for this… you do understand that American elections aren’t unanimous, right? The country has 300+ million people and 77 million adults voted for the orange turd. A lot did not. This is a lot of projecting for folks who make fun of Americans for calling countries in the EU “Europe.”

Straight out of the Russian playbook. 🤔

China ain’t conceding shit

At this point China isn’t the problem it the us last they aren’t bombing others countries or setting a blockade in another continent or threatening to end their civilisation I would like to see what the us can do to China