Happy Greek Independence Day!

 

HAPPY GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY!

 Gyros for everyone!

Try not to smash too many plates...or do what I do and drop a plastic one one the floor and use a broom like a hockey stick to shoot it though the door! 

The Iran War contiues

 

The Iran War continues kind of like we thought it would.  US and Israeli bombing and Iran trying to hit back.  Their decapitated leadership does not seem to have an organized response other than trying to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

They have done that, but we are not sure how long they can keep it shut off.  US forces are still hitting Iran and although gas prices are going up, it is also obvious that Iran cannot send out any oil either.  Looks like the collapse is coming anyway you look at it.  The question is "when?"

Still hoping for a popular uprising.  US forces are hitting Iran's military and security pretty had.  The new Ayatollah has yet to be seen and it is believed he is disfigured or even in a coma.  I am thinking the IRGC is really running things.

This is something both the US and Iran have been planning for since 1980. It seems to be a US sledgehammer against Iranian hornet nest. 

Iran has very little military capability left, but one missile or drone strike on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz can cause chaos.

Of course, the oil companies would probably love that...

In the meantime, more airstrikes.

It took 40 days to knock Iraq down from the air in 1991, so we might be looking at more of the same.

US Marines are on the way fro the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force.  No one is sure what they will be used for but I hope it is not a "boots on the ground" situation.  Are they after the Iranian side of the Striat of Hormuz or Kharg Island (90% of Iran's oil gets pumped through there.) 

Wars take a course of their own.  Looks like it is happening again.  No surprise.

Iran is not every going to be the same. 

 

 

US goes for the knockout!

 

Remember how I said the US and Iran were heading for a collision a month ago?

 Looks like the US unloaded a haymaker on Tehran.

The US and Israel began pounding Iran from the air, not to destroy the nuclear sites, but to destroy the Islamic Republic.

 Trump has called on the Iranian people to rise up. The airstrikes are continuing but many many people are in the streets ripping down statues and cheering the death of the Ayatollah.  

Yes, the US and Israelis successfully launched a decapitation strike. 

The Iranians have launched missiles and hit a lot of Gulf states along with Israel and even Cyprus! They are screaming about vengeance though the surviving leadership has made contact with Trump about immunity.  If I was an Iranian soldier, I would abandon my post.

The attack will go on for at least a couple of more days.  Will the Islamic Republic survive or will something else take its place?  I can't see them going back to a Shah-led monarchy.  I am hoping for something resembling a democracy.  It's the Middle East, so......well, gotta give it a roll of the dice!

Unlike Afghanistan or Iraq,  Iran is a country that has existed for 5000 years.  Usually as Persia, but it is the same place. That sort of continuous history, and lack of foreign occupation since the 1300s, give Iran a chance whereas other Middle Eastern countries never had.  It was not "created."  It is real, natural, and organic.

We gotta wait for the war, operation, clash, whatever it is, to finish and see what happens.  A weakened Islamic Republic will still be dangerous and given the appeals for immunity, I don't think it is going to be around for much longer.

Its the Middle East.  The war is the easy part.  What happens next is always the interesting part o the story.

Nothing but love for the Iranian people!