US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources say

Sounds like when Trump was dropping the ball on Covid 6 years ago.

that was 2-3 weeks ago... just like he'd have plans for replacing the ACA in 2 weeks. Then he'll have a concept of a plan. Then he'll do something else with hopes you forget that 2-3 week timetable.

He learned from the best, remember when Putin said Ukraine was a 3 day mil op?

putin said 2-3 days, trump said 2-3 weeks. Extrapolate... But to be frank US won't survive for that long with this. It's a speed run of USSR collapse.

Unfortunately they'll be coming home for Christmas in flag draped boxes 📦

Another march isn't going to do anything. People have been marching and they don't give a shit. Until it has some kind of tangible affect on them it's not going to make any difference. Part of me wonders if the right isn't behind some of these marches just to make sure frustrated people have some outlet for their anger instead of actually doing something that will make a difference. A way to keep people busy without causing enough of a stir to matter.

Sure it is. He knows it’s polite and decent to use when asking for anything. So he’d never use it himself. “Big guy, strong guy, comes up to me, ‘Sir… Mr President, please save us,’ He says, tears on his face. ‘no one can save us but you Mr. President sir!” He would never use it to ask for anything, it’s for ‘suckers and losers’ to beg him with.

He burned all his bridges and now is facing the consequences.

Everyone gets covered in shit in a shit flinging fight.

Probably why Trump is trying to wash his hands of it and saying it's someone else's problem.

>So they've got their missile and Shahed supply distributed all over the country, not only is it all over the country, most of it is entirely underground with really fking compact/hard ground that bunker busters are useless against. it's gonna be pretty much hell to fight against Iran in their home turf.

It's not good so I'm not defending it but news are reporting what officials and witnesses tell them, often in the format "A says x" and it's on you to decide if you believe the statement. They only tell you A made the statement.

There is no free press in the U.S. no more.

on this site?

Realistically, it could. But not with the way we are randomly throwing shit at the wall. Overwhelming force doesn’t mean much when you don’t use it. (Not saying I want this to happen, I’d much rather we fucked off out of there as soon as possible.)

Seems like that was a good call on their part

And fortifying the canyon walls and caves - which is what 95% of the country? There's a reason Persia was rarely attacked in all those centuries.

Thankyou for your attention to this deluded corrupt white man.

He has been able to use his bullshit bluster in so many ways with great effect. The times it has royally backfired was 1. Covid, 2. Epstein and 3. Iran. He can say it's over as much as he likes, but just like Covid, the reality on the ground will prove him to be a liar.

Decimated might be the only one that is accurate.

Im just so sick of him getting to stand up there and lie to everyone about everything and nothing happens and he continues to suffer no consequences for it, or any of his absolutely insane actions and decisions which have had such wide reaching negative impacts the world over.

And I'm totally cool with the nuance of reporting, because that is all relevant. For THIS war a buried stash of missile launchers is effectively "off the battlefield". But a buried stash of 60% enriched uranium is safe and secure for post-war recovery. There is only one military capability right now that truly matters and that is what can hit vessels in the strait. As long as they have that leverage, they are winning and every day that goes by their negotiating leverage increases. Think about how the war narrative has changed in the last three weeks. Short-term shock to oil prices - annoying but tolerable. Medium-term shock - serious economic issues across the globe. Long term shock - global economic crisis! Iran decides when the oil shock ends - that's power.

Entrances to underground missile "cities" (what Iran calls them) have been bombed and then dug out in matter of hours. There is an estimate 50 underground launch complexes, all deep enough to need bunker busters, each with at least 20 entrances and who knows how many silo launch shafts and how many decoy entrances and silo shafts. Just cycling between these targets means enough time for Iran to dig out the entrances that were bombed earlier. You should look up Iran's missile cities - they've published a lot of videos on them through the years for deterrence purposes. They have whole solid fuel rocket factories underground, auto-reloading silos, and enough space to have hundreds of semi-truck mounted launch systems parked in tunnels tens of miles long. They've thought of getting buried for sure and they know how to dig themselves out, imo.

Yes, but the us has hit the entrances pretty hard. I mean it’s literally stated in the report that CNN that the estimate includes units that are considered to be function but buried underneath mountains with no way of being usable but still intact