Mark Wauck: What the media isn’t telling us about the Iran war
Interesting Big Picture View Of The War On Iran
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BRILLIANT PIECE on IRAN !!!!!
Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most worthy Jews in the world:
Actually, Mizrahi’s self description: A former Israeli, and an original anti-Zionist Moroccan-Palestinian Jew.
“We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone’s surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that the world is not ready for this.
In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its sphere of military dominance in the region. Iran has destroyed the most valuable and expensive military bases, property, and equipment in the entire world.
The American bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among the largest military facilities in the entire world. These facilities have cost trillions of dollars over several decades to build. We are talking about the fact that the bulk of the military spending that has been made over more than 30 years has gone up in smoke.
This is the reason for the continuing attacks on the bases—to render them unusable for the future.
We see radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars each being destroyed in an instant. We see entire military bases being abandoned and burned, looted, and destroyed. And I’m telling you, as far as I know, the U.S. has never suffered such destruction in its entire history, except perhaps for Pearl Harbor, but that was just one attack.
No enemy in a conventional war has ever done this to American military forces as Iran is doing right now. It’s hard to believe. The military situation is so serious that censorship is blocking almost all new information about this war. If you’ve noticed, we’re getting less and less information every day.
Yes, I’ve noticed that.
Thirty-five years ago, during the first Iraqi war, we were shown endless footage from Iraq. Back then, smart bombs and cameras were a novelty, but every night we were shown night-time footage. Now we hardly see any videos at all.
Understand this! Supposedly, this is the world’s largest military power, with the world’s largest air capabilities, and on the fourth day of the U.S. offensive, supposedly and supposedly breaking through Iranian defenses, we don’t see any signs of American dominance in the Iranian sky. Where are all the video recordings of our planes flying over Tehran or any other part of Iran, for that matter?
American soldiers can’t even dream of setting foot on Iranian soil. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the fourth day you’re already hearing the most insane proposals and ideas from the Trump administration. They’re proposing sending military escorts for oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf. What are you even talking about! You want to send American ships into the zone of destruction of thousands of Iranian missiles? NOW no one can get through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting the idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran!? It seems the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how vast it is? What does it mean to invade Iran!? Do you think a militia of 10,000 people could invade Iran!? Or even 50,000? Or 100,000? Iran will swallow them up.
The U.S. and Israel have already lost this war. The U.S. and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have powerful bombs and can blow up buildings, but they won’t win this war. Iran’s military infrastructure and weaponry is deep underground all over IRAN. Neither the Americans nor, especially, the Israelis have any chance of reaching any of it. They’re in deep shit.
They started something they have no chance of finishing. When this all ends, the U.S. will never return to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.”
Listening to Luke Gromen while writing:
Voting in American elections is like writing letters to Santa Claus for adults. Nobody frickin’ voted for this.
I am sure we took some hits. But Kevin has no idea and gives nothing substantive.
Isn’t it obvious this is Mark Wauck, not me?
You have some great writers, particularly Jose Nino – shame about some of the commenters.
M. North, what comment, what commenters?
You are hasbara and probably a Jew. State your argument in full or shut up. I notice today that Ritter has pulled out all the stops on Israelis, calling them all murderers, etc. Jews are fundamentally all murderers per OT, Deuteronomy, etc. They hate every non-Jew. I hope they all get killed by Iran. If you cannot hate The Jew, who can you hate?
I’ve seen interesting discussions about the durability of the concrete Iran uses to protect its underground installations (leadership bunkers, nuclear research facilities, drone and missile factories, missile launch sites) and they sound very deep, thick and formidable. Perhaps someone with a more technical background on this matter would have more to say on this, but in summary, even our MOABs wouldn’t be able to destroy them. This is why tactical nukes were discussed as a possibility for taking out nuclear sites last year, because only they can penetrate deep enough into the ground and detonate with enough force to cause a collapse.
Iran had decades to prepare for exactly the kind of air campaign the US and Israel are running right now. It didn’t take that much foresight; we just haven’t changed military doctrine since the Persian Gulf War. The asymmetry of cheap missile, expensive interceptor is something those of us in the dissident sphere who have been following this have known for a while. The attacks on US military bases in gulf countries is something that took most of us by surprise, but the strategic benefits are obvious – no US ground invasion is possible and the radar stations hosted in these bases were advance warning monitors for Iranian missiles headed for Israel. These attacks might have permanently soured Iran-GCC relations, but to be frank, 99 cents and all the Sunni Arab militaries in the region don’t add up to a dollar and the governments were all in bed with the Zionists in the first place.
The only Kurds that have invaded Iran are Iranian Kurdish rebels hosted in Iraqi Kurdistan and these incursions have probably already been destroyed. The Iraqi Kurds want nothing to do with this. They have no air defense, their leadership and infrastructure are fragile, and they are surrounded by Shia militias who probably have a grudge against them for siphoning Iraqi oil wealth. This plan is a non-starter but it will take a week or more for our media to catch up.
What do you mean by “siphoning Iraqi oil wealth”?
Iraqi Kurdistan had independently exporting oil to Turkey against the wishes of the Iraqi government until 2023