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Leaked spy report warns Trump's Iran war faces disaster. A leaked classified report by the National Intelligence Council has shed an unfavorable light on Donald Trump's decision to strike Iran, warning that military involvement could be disastrous. 

"Could be"? Seriously? It already is--it is a military-political catastrophe for the US and its master Israel, and anyone with a half military brain knew it was coming. A bunch of corrupt amateurs driven by a combination of factors ranging from religious heresy to desire to cover up their crimes tried to play "war", not having a clue about it. American generals--a collection of losers, who never won anything but are prolific at parading their insanity, butthurt and incompetence in media are now pushing for deploying 82nd Airborne into what will turn out to be hell from Iranian stand-off weaponry against which the US Army has no defense. US "operational planning". Complete madness and utter, glaring military-intel incompetence on part of the US. Stupefying--the only word for it. 

Daniel Davis and Scott ...

 ... excellent discussion. 

On, And On, And On, And ...

 ... Story, never-ending stoooory (c) It is now turning into Waiting for Godot. He (it) IS NOT coming. 

WASHINGTON, March 6 — RIA Novosti. Washington expects progress in resolving the conflict in Ukraine in the coming weeks, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Whitkoff said on Friday. "We continue to make significant progress as we work toward a peace agreement that ends the war once and for all. Discussions are ongoing and it is expected that additional progress will be made in the coming weeks," he wrote in social networks X.The day before, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the negotiation process, stated that there was some progress on humanitarian issues. So, at the end of last month, Moscow and Kiev exchanged the bodies of dead servicemen, and yesterday and today they handed over 500 prisoners of war to each other.

It is akin to Trump demanding an unconditional surrender from Iran. Boy, these people are delusional. So, when even this dumbfuck gets it:

Hello, Mr. Hegseth, how's your Armageddon going, did you read your Book of Revelation recently from Scofield Bible?   

That sums it up pretty well. Look at this today's "ouch".

They are just warming up, those markets and for some reason no oil carrier took up US offer to "escort them" in Persian Gulf. Judging by the US air defense systems "performance", nobody takes them seriously. Plus, of course, those pesky Iranian unmanned boats. Per Russia providing recon and targeting to Iran. Hey, Russia is not a party to a conflict, wink, wink. Two can play the game, if you know what I mean. 

Morons, Get The Hell Out Of Profession ...

 ... losers. 

In Major Win For Putin, US Grants Russia License To Sell Oil To India While Strait Of Hormuz Is Blocked

US cannot "grant" anything to Russia because Russia doesn't care and will do as she deems necessary and the US will pound sand. India, on the other hand, in a humiliating move for India, WAS "granted" a license to BUY Russian oil. Cope harder, fanboys. 

Actually, NBC Must Be Commended ...

... for giving the tribune to Abbas Araghchi, albeit we know it has been done not out of journalist "integrity", but to provide additional insight into Tramp's madness against the background of upcoming midterms and sink even more GOP's prospects. 

Having said that, the expression on the face of the NBC host told a lot of things when Araghchi told him that Iran is "waiting for" US ground troops. He is not bluffing. And the main pillar of the US military mythology was always air power, but in pursuit of these WWII doctrinal ideas, everybody forgets what the use of ground forces entails--yes, assembly areas. Remember, I even made a whole video on that? 

This is a rough scheme of what assembly area of a battalion looks like. But that's Russian battalion which has Troops' Air Defense (Войсковая ПВО) component fully employed for protection of this assembly area, if Russians have to assemble forces. Here is what it looks like:

And this:

And this:

And this: 

And, of course, MOGs--Mobile Fire Groups equipped with everything one needs to repel UAVs attacks, plus Russian Armed Forces have a whole new service--Troops of Unmanned Aerial Systems. Needless to say, US Armed Forces has nothing which is even in the vicinity of such capabilities and Iran proved it again beyond any doubt--the US Army cannot fight with any enemy (forget about fighting Russia) which has UAV and missile forces which will attack assembly areas, and considering the "effectiveness" of the US air defense, they will wreck havoc in assembly areas and will inflict enormous casualties. 

That is why I repeat ad nauseam that FM 3-0 DOES NOT reflect any reality of operation for the force which cannot defend itself from the air. They learned nothing from SMO, because, of course, they have been high on own supply and drank 404 Kool Aid, until they started to suspect that something is fishy when Wiesbaden "Group" killed more than 200,000 personnel of VSU and failed to even reach the first line of defense of Russian Army in now famous 2023 "counter-offensive" clusterfuck on part of Pentagon, which not unlike Al Bundy from Married With Children whose main life's accomplishment were four touchdowns in Polk's High School football game, continues to hang on to the memories of defeating a semiliterate and backward Saddam's Army. And this is even before we begin to talk about resources. 

Here is visual representation from yesterday's employment by Russian Army of RUK (Recon Strike Complex) with Mr. Iskander with cluster munitions paying a visit to one of the camps (parts of assembly area) of VSU.  

Rough estimate--200+ KIAs and WIAs, two companies are gone in a blink of an eye. Remarkably, these losses WILL NOT BE counted in Russian Defense Ministry's daily updates. To remind you--so far, the tally of AD complexes, Russian forces destroyed 651 of them, including the best NATO could provide. What are "the other ways" in which Russia and China help Iran, I leave it to your imagination. Per "AI operational planning" by Pentagon, not only it is a laughing stock among serious military, but AI has now a new meaning--Artificial Imbecile, operated by very natural ones. 

Give Him A Nobel Peace Prize, FFS.

 Some comments on some "issues". 

US Military Never Understood ...

 ... the nature of war. Some people INSIDE the US military system did understand it but as a system the US military is not designed to fight a real war. 

And then, there is this "teeny-weeny" factor of not a single US military man or woman ever fighting in defense of the United States. They simply have no cultural, psychological and spiritual "organ" which knows what that is. And yes, USAF with its confabulated history of "successes" against mighty Taliban Air Force or Iraqi so called "air defense" is not the pool of military professionals from which you can draw a person who can grasp the realities of modern warfare. Here I agree with Larry Wilkerson wholeheartedly.