IRGC Quds Force Leader killed in airstrike @ Baghad Int

True but...

They have zero experience in anything like that.

Iraqis will not respond like internal China.

How is China going to handle ieds?

Would it not be cheaper for the us to fund an insurgent movement compared to an occupying force?

I have no idea.

The Middle East has always been one ongoing war of one kind or another.

Russia didn’t stop it and neither did the us.


what your missing is the Chinese wont just play "hearts and minds" with this country and have limited rules of engagement, etc. They will dump 100k chinese troops in Iraq, and start wholesale eradication. So they lose 6-8k of their soldiers? they wont care, because they will have killed everyone in that country that is a male old enough to walk. Everyone else is in a prison camp, and then no more IEDs. They may call it West Chinastan. They wont care. but they will get the oil.
 
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And you don’t think that would be rallying call for all Muslim to pour into that country.

That kind of action would cause an epic war.

Not to mention a world wide response.
 
The chicoms will just make one sided deals to build things (with chicom labor and materials) in exchange for oil and whatever else they want. They'll eventually own most of the country and all of the politicians.
 
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When we pulled out of Egypt in the 50s and 60s under Nasser the Soviets moved in. By the mid 1960s the Egyptians were so sick of the Russians and hated them so much they were begging to come back to us.

I pretty much feel that wherever the Russians or the Chinese go that isn't already a repressive dictatorship they will be hated, and certainly in most places that are too.
 
It seems like Killing that general is the gift that keeps on giving.
50 "mourners" killed in Iran while attending his funeral 200+ injured.

So get together to chant Death to America and end up getting squished to death....

 
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It seems like Killing that general is the gift that keeps on giving.
50 "mourners" killed in Iran while attending his funeral 200+ injured.

So get together to chant Death to America and end up getting squished to death....


Fratricide is a wonderful thing....
 
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After hearing the headlines on the radio I expect to see 52 smoking hot places in Iran in the near future. I hope DJT shows the camel jockeys what MOAB can do to the palace of the supreme leader and all the rest of the heads of gov't and military over there.
Trump likes big and I expect no less.
 
what your missing is the Chinese wont just play "hearts and minds" with this country and have limited rules of engagement, etc. They will dump 100k chinese troops in Iraq, and start wholesale eradication. So they lose 6-8k of their soldiers? they wont care, because they will have killed everyone in that country that is a male old enough to walk. Everyone else is in a prison camp, and then no more IEDs. They may call it West Chinastan. They wont care. but they will get the oil.

Exactly!
 
Channeling @ArmyJerry (I make the sign of the cross)


Destroy them.

Return to Military Intelligence days.

Take an oath, don a uniform and focus on the external.

Keep spying a mil function controlled by the civil through the CinC,

Have State and local law focus on the internal matters with coordination from mil intel.

It will shatter egos but clear the Republic of a deadly poison.

We have but one mil in (now) 6 branches, we don't need bureaucrat armies operating as unaccountables.
You’re on to something with restoring military intelligence capabilities but counterintelligence needs to be federal, and if you don’t know why it can’t be explained to you.
When we pulled out of Egypt in the 50s and 60s under Nasser the Soviets moved in. By the mid 1960s the Egyptians were so sick of the Russians and hated them so much they were begging to come back to us.
The British and French turned Egypt towards the Soviets in 1956 and it was a massive blunder.
After hearing the headlines on the radio I expect to see 52 smoking hot places in Iran in the near future. I hope DJT shows the camel jockeys what MOAB can do to the palace of the supreme leader and all the rest of the heads of gov't and military over there.
Trump likes big and I expect no less.
That would be a mistake. The wise move is some actions here and there against Iranian proxies and seize oil smugglers vessels.
 
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