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[spike.t]

About above post....hit reply but for some reason did the above....

 

[spike.t]

Excellent discussion, thank you for an explanation even a Canadian or European might be able to understand.
I also have had enough of these entitled Canadians and Europeans. They have no understanding just what America has done to protect them and build their economies. They are one pathetic bunch of freeloaders.

Mmm...yet another anal post...so as I am from a small island in Europe I am basically an entitled whatever....and am a pathetic fkn freeloader....OK fkhead here's the deal...come here on a one way ticket.....due to the Chinese fkn the river up ..the crocs are a bit hungry...but am wondering if you might taste too sour even for them....

 

[spike.t]

slack the band on your maga hat there superchief it’s cutting of circulation to your brain

Brain.....

 

[spike.t]

He’s not entirely wrong, just late to the show.

Scott come on we way past that shit...things have warmed up considerably since them....

 

[spike.t]

Excellent....

Russia blames Ukrainian naval drones as tanker sinks in Mediterranean

The Arctic Metagaz went down between Libya and Malta after it was hit by explosions and a fire, Libyan officials say.

www.bbc.com

 

[Wheels]

October 2025. Trump meets with Xi. Trump has tariffs and Nvidia chips. Xi has rare earths.

Next meeting tentatively set for spring.

January. Maduro gone. Caracas is working with America

February. Cuba is talking with America.

February-March. Iran decapitation. Straits of Hormuz closed. America is the insurance policy for opening the the Straits. ( For some reason Dire Straits Sultan of Swing is running through my head right now)

April 2026 meeting between Trump and Xi. Trump has tariffs, Nvidia and oil. Xi has rare earths.

Not saying Venezuela and Iran were all about China but there are definitely side benefits.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Fox reporting Iraqi Kurds have invaded Iran, not sure what this will mean, but a very interesting development.

 

[Tanks]

Well, that is interesting. Not unexpected though.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

They may get a country of their own after all (not implying all of Iran..). Wish Trump would have been and hopefully will be a better ally to them.

8-15 million Kurds live in Iran. Kurdistan in green.

 

[Brent in Az]

Iraqi Kurds launch ground offensive in Iran

 

[deewayne2003]

Looks like the Kurds have launched a ground offensive from Iraq; it will be interesting to see how the Peshmerga(with air support) interact with the Iranian guard.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Fox reporting Iraqi Kurds have invaded Iran, not sure what this will mean, but a very interesting development.

If nothing else, it means trouble for the Iranian regime.

Hopefully Turkey doesn’t do anything stupid. They get jumpy over anything the Kurds do.

 

[Tanks]

I am wondering about what the Iranian Kurds are doing? Last, they were trading barbs with Pevlavi.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

I beat all of you guys to it may I say.....

It's hard to imagine this wasn't part of the original plan, that these Kurds decided sometime in the last 4 days to suddenly invade. Perhap, but I doubt it.

 

[Tanks]

If nothing else, it means trouble for the Iranian regime.

Hopefully Turkey doesn’t do anything stupid. They get jumpy over anything the Kurds do.

As long as they do not announce territorial aspirations over Eastern Turkey there won't be much reaction. Turkey actually has a lot of trade with the Iraqi Kurdish region. Not so much with the Syrian ones that are allegedly linked with the PKK.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

I am wondering about what the Iranian Kurds are doing? Last, they were trading barbs with Pevlavi.

Joining up with their Iraqi Kurd friends?

 

[Sideshow]

This may already have been posted.

Video of US torpedo hitting Iranian warship released by Pentagon

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the US military has sunk "an Iranian warship" in the Indian Ocean with a torpedo.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[John Wasmuth]

Lou Holtz passed away today at 89 yoa. RIP coach.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

This may already have been posted.

Video of US torpedo hitting Iranian warship released by Pentagon

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the US military has sunk "an Iranian warship" in the Indian Ocean with a torpedo.

www.bbc.co.uk

That torpedo has some serious kinetic energy to it. Very impressive!

 

[mdwest]

I am wondering about what the Iranian Kurds are doing? Last, they were trading barbs with Pevlavi.

I’m hopeful that the Iraqi Kurds are bringing extra arms and ammo with them and will tool up the Iranian Kurds..

In the early days of the Iraq war, the company I worked for hired a lot of Kurds… I’d guess around 100 in total… I had 24 assigned to my team.. they weren’t particularly good at fighting… but I’ll give them credit where credit is due… they were both fearless and fierce…

We got into a handful of shootouts with insurgents in early 2004.. and took indirect fire fairly regularly… our Kurds never ran.. and never faltered… we’d have incoming katushya rockets and they’d be standing in the towers manning the PKMs and watching the perimeter acting like it was just another Tuesday night…

Unfortunately I cannot say the same thing about the handful of Iraqi anti-baathists we brought in to do lower level security work..

As a rule, they sucked..