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> What's to stop Iran What's to stop them? The enormous pile of ordnance floating in the gulf of oman that can be easily dropped on Tehran, for one...

• JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
  > The enormous pile of ordnance floating in the gulf of oman that can be easily dropped on Tehran, for one Probably not. The other comment is right: cutting cables means having its own cables cut. (Tehran is also probably weighing whether it wants to continue mobilising almost all of its neighbors against itself. Trashing e.g. Kuwait for shits and giggles isn't strategically productive.)
  • CamperBob2 5mo ago
    Tehran is also probably weighing whether it wants to continue mobilising almost all of its neighbors against itself Interesting point. It might be a good time for some good old-fashioned false-flag action.
    • JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
      > might be a good time for some good old-fashioned false-flag action It's always "a good time for some good old-fashioned false-flag action" if you can pull it off. Given Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are already bombing Iran, and are now unaligned, there wouldn't be much for the U.S. to gain from something like this. (And if Israel were to pull off a false-flag operation against the U.S. now isn't better or worse than tomorrow or yesterday.)