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Ryan Grimm, for his part, said that Naval Special Warfare units were given deployment orders today. My current bet is that Kharg is the distraction and they actually want to make a play for Iran's uranium stockpile. Arguably even stupider than trying to take Kharg Island.

We're going to see dead seal operators like frankly no one has seen outside of the vietnam war folks!

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 45 points 4 weeks ago

a play for iran's uranium stockpile.

ken klippenstein's stuff is usually good, but genuinely in what sense would this remotely be possible, in a logistical sense? isn't "iran's uranium stockpile" effectively literal tons of material to move that is also currently buried under bombed nuclear development facilities? last time i checked there's no such thing as SEAL team Concrete so... does anyone know what i'm missing here?

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

didn't trump say he was going to try something like this? obviously there are a lot of problems with that idea just on the face of it but yk. some people theorized it was their exit strategy. take a mysterious box from the coast, load it into a helicopter, declare victory in the middle east

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

he has, but this has been considered dubious for the reasons i outlined.

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

of course it's not gonna work. but trump might try anyway so he can declare victory and boost his numbers at home. or because his techbro contingent wants to abandon west asia completely. or maybe he won't and the us will be economically fucked for a while.

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