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  • State of the War from the Western POV:

    We’re doing very well […] They have no navy, it’s been knocked out. They have no air force, it’s been knocked out. They have no air detection — that’s been knocked out,” Trump said. He acknowledged that Iran was still “lobbing” missiles at its Gulf neighbours, but said that the US was striking Iranian launch facilities.

    The US military has carried out strikes against more than 1,700 targets in Iran, according to US Central Command. CENTCOM said the strikes targeted Iranian navy ships, submarines, and antiship missile sites along with command and control centres.

    The network of proxy armed groups – long used as a regional force against Israel – has been weakened since the Gaza war and now risks collapse, upending the regional balance. The weakening of Lebanon’s Hezbollah after its 2024 war with Israel and the fall of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad paved the way for Israel to aim directly at Iran.

    Most of the axis’s members – such as Hezbollah, Houthis, or Iraqi armed groups – are “trying to understand how to survive”. They lack “the necessary military capabilities to inflict significant damage” while the most prominent ones are now “intertwined in the Iraqi state”.

    The Houthis have so far stayed away from the US-Israeli attack on Iran. “The Houthis are in a calculated holding pattern, or perhaps a defensive approach.”








  • I don’t know why Iran is still trying to maintain a ‘civilian-use only’ nuclear policy. That time is gone. The world where that promise could’ve save them is gone. Look at what happened to Venezuela. Look at what is happening to Cuba. Look at how they are trying to militarily and economically coerce and strangle the entire world, allies and enemies. Build the weapon. It is the only way you will be safe. You are already sanctioned. Build the weapon and then FORCE your allies and partners to build together an alternative economic system to get around the sanctions and tariffs. That is the only way. Maybe only one or two sanctioned nations will agree at first, but that would be a start. It would be a leap of faith. But others would join. They would have to. It is the only way.