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War On Iran: Six Months Later – The Astonishing Size Of The U.S. Defeat
January 28 2026: The U.S. sent a carrier force to threaten Iran. It made a number of extensive demands.
Trump Threatens Iran With ‘Massive Armada’ and Presses a Set of Demands (archived) – NY Times
Mr. Trump’s threat of a second direct attack on Iran by U.S. forces in eight months came as the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, along with other naval ships, bombers and fighter jets, took up positions in the region in striking distance of the country.
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Mr. Trump gave no specifics about the deal he was demanding, saying only that a “massive Armada” was heading toward Iran and that the country should make a deal. But U.S. and European officials say that in talks, they have put three demands in front of the Iranians:
– a permanent end to all enrichment of uranium and disposal of its current stockpiles,
– limits on the range and number of their ballistic missiles, and
– an end to all support for proxy groups in the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis operating in Yemen.
August 15 2026: Due to Iranian counter measures the carrier mission largely failed It is leaving the Middle East.
Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War (archived) – NY Times
The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack drones fell on a Navy base in Bahrain.
The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base. And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.
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The loss of the hub in Bahrain has contributed to a host of reported problems on carriers supporting operations against Iran, as Democratic senators raise concerns about the Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and their nearly nine-month deployment.
The carrier will be replaced by a different one. But the U.S. has only ten of these and to keep one ship on station requires two additional ones for refit and training. Six of the ten carriers will thus be bound near the Strait which leaves just one ready to take care of the rest of the world.
They are doing high-fives in Beijing.
The demands towards Iran are gone. The first concern for Trump is now political survival.
Vance says low oil prices now ‘goal number one’ in Iran war as US threatens new economic pressure – NBC News via MSN
Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ “goal number one” in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, as Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran.
The comments appeared to be the latest shift in the public rationale for the conflict, with Vance ranking Iran’s nuclear ambitions second.
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The international oil benchmark of Brent Crude sits just above $87 dollars a barrel, 45% higher than it was in January. The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. is now higher than $4; before the conflict it was lower than $3.
I continue to marvel at the size of the U.S. defeat.
The long term consequence is that others will learn from Iran.
THE IRAQ WAR – PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
‘Sanctions are fine, but what we really want to think about is going after Saddam.
Imagine what the region would look like without Saddam and with a regime that’s aligned with U.S. interests.
It would change everything in the region and beyond it.
It would demonstrate what U.S. policy is all about.”
(Donald Rumsfeld, February 1, 2001, at a principal committee meeting)
“I would certainly think it is still worthwhile.”
(Paul Wolfowitz, February 27, 2001, when asked whether he favors committing U.S. forces to support Iraqi opposition groups in overthrowing Saddam Hussein)
“Well, I just don’t understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden…There are others that do…at least as much. Iraqi terrorism for example…You give bin Laden too much credit. He could not do all these things like the 1993 attack on New York, not without a state sponsor.
Just because FBI and CIA have failed to find the linkages does not mean they don’t exist.”
(Paul Wolfowitz, April 2001).
“I am unaware of any Iraqi-sponsored terrorism directed at the United States … since 1993 …”
(Richard Clarke, counterterrorism coordinator, April 2001)
“We have no evidence of any active Iraqi terrorist threat against the U.S.”
(John McLaughlin, CIA deputy director, April 2001).
“Publicizing the interdiction to our advantage….Getting the right story out.”
(State Department concerns, June 29, 2001, after the U.S. interdicts aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq to manufacture rockets).
“If Saddam’s regime were ousted, we would have a much-improved position in the region and elsewhere…A major success with Iraq would enhance U.S. credibility and influence throughout the region.”
(Donald Rumsfeld, defense secretary, July 27, 2001).
“The people across the river [CIA headquarters] are trying to start a war. They are really beating the (An International Atomic Energy Agency scientist, summer drum, they want to attack.”
“Don’t worry about it …. I’m in no hurry to go look for trouble.”
(George W. Bush, around August 1, 2001, on being warned by Colin Powell to be skeptical of Paul Wolfowitz’s claims that supporting Iraqi opposition groups in overthrowing Saddam Hussein would be easy).
“We are just looking to see whether there could possibly be a connection with Saddam Hussein.”
(Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser, September 11, 2001, to the British ambassador to the U.S.)
“Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. @ same time – not only UBL … Jim Haynes to talk w/ PW for additional support …. connection with UBL …. Go massive – sweep it all up. Things related and not.”
(Donald Rumsfeld, September 11, 2001, 2:40 p.m.)
“You know, we’ve got to do Iraq — there just aren’t enough targets in Afghanistan.”
(Donald Rumsfeld, September 11,
2001, evening)
“Having been attacked by al Qaeda, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.”
(Richard Clarke, NSC
counterterrorism advisor, September 12, 2001).
“It’s showtime.”
(John Maguire of the CIA Iraq Operations Group, to an Iraqi former covert operations collaborator, September 12, 2001).
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/IraqWarPart1-Quotes.pdf
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JINSA Proposes Iraq War on 9/13/2001
https://alethonews.com/2012/01/08/jinsa-proposes-iraq-war-on-9132001/
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Aug 15 2026 18:09 utc | 27
No, the long term consequence is not that others will learn from Iran.
It is that others will learn from Iran AND ALSO, AND MAINLY, from Pakistan and North Korea:
1- have good relations with China and Russia. They want sovereign partners, not vassals as in the West;
2- do not depend on USatan for anything, not even trust them for negotiations, because Western word has no value;
3- what matters is what you want and how strong you are to demand it, NOT international “law”;
4- you can only defend yourself by having these 8 things:
4.1- huge swarms of drones and their production at home;
4.2- huge reserves of long range missiles, ideally also ICBM (intercontinental) and their production at home;
4.3- anti-ship munition, to be able to severely damage or even destroy Western means of imperial projection;
4.4- your own mosaic defense with your own air-defense systems, complemented with syatems from Russia and China;
4.5- your own ISR, and close cooperation with multipolar powers (Russia, China), without any reliance on Western satellites nor GPS/Galileo;
4.6- protect your information space, both by restricting western media/propaganda, and also by countering western intelligence agencies permanently (from CIA and Mossad to NED and USaid, etc);
4.7- to be economically and monetarily sovereign and sanctions-proof, is as important as any other military defense;
4.8- cooperate with Russia and China to developed your nuclear civilian program faster, and either develop your own nuclear weapons, or sign a nuclear agreement with a multipolar power (Russia, China, Pakistan)).
So far, Iran itself has not YET completely learned point 4.2 and has not learned at all point 4.8, but Saudi Arabia learned that point even before learning the others, thus signing that deal with Pakistan and Turkey, as a first step (immediately nuclear) to start getting rid of its Western/USatan dependence.
The next big step is going to be Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey, all applying to be full members of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) instead of just Dialogue Partners, and Turkey having to leave NATO in order to do so, now that SCO is expanding Dedense cooperation.
And that’s exactly why USatan is using its proxies/vassals “israel” and Greece to increasingly threaten Turkey, in case you haven’t noticed yet. As long as Turkey feels this threat, it will remain in NATO to… protect itself from the West.
The othet tectonic shift is already happening, and I’m surprised Moon Of Alabama didn’t even mention it in this article: Iran is now on the offensive, attaching USatan targets without waiting to be attacked first.
I salute the brave heroes of the Iranian IRGC, Iraqi PMF, Lebanese and Syrian Hezbollah, and Yemeni Ansar Allah.
That’s a move that not even Russia nor China have dared to make yet. But they should!
Those ISR airplanes over the Black Sea, those “ukrainian” F16 taking off from Romania and Poland, those tankers supplying Europe with USatan’s oil and LNG, those USatan’s ships crossing the South China Sea, those cargo planes landing in Taiwan, all those USatan bases in NATO vassals with ukrainian recruits being trained, Guantanamo occupation pigs, etc.
I think the no return point, where things will drastically change, is when the de-dollarisation reaches the sweet spot, and China has finally dumped all USatan’s treasury bonds.
The idiot “100% tariffs” (with a possibility to reach 500%) against Russia and China and their partners (mainly in BRICS+) is just going to be USatan’s harakiri, a desperate move that will instead just catalyse the birth of the multipolar world.
Final note: Cuba better start preparing to have the capacity do to Miami the exact same thing that Iran did to UAE/Dubai and Kuwait and Bahrain.
And Cuba and Russia (and North Korea and Iran) better start helping more. They either have their own modern “Cuban” Missile Crisis (the name the western propaganda calls to the: USatan missile crisis in Turkey, SOLVED by USSR doing the same in Cuba), or USatan will not stop escalating.
Posted by: Carlos Marquea | Aug 15 2026 18:49 utc | 36
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