but drunk war bro in charge of the Pentagon said it, so must be true

It's absolutely hilarious how they've been doing this for four years in Ukraine, and are now acting shocked that Russia is doing it back to them.

Basically, I think that's how I'm reading it too. Trying to disrupt China's oil imports almost certainly appears to be part of the plan, but naturally it only forces both China and Russia to cooperate more creating a nightmare scenario for the US. And of course, the countries that get hurt the most are US vassals in Europe, Japan, and occupied Korea. All of them were hugely dependent on oil and LNG shipments going through the Strait of Hormuz, which are now cut off. China will be fine, US aligned countries, not so much.

lol yup

I can't imagine that Trump actually understands the concept.

don't worry, it'll come to him in a dream

They've been preparing for this for years, and estimates are they produce hundreds of missiles a month, and their drone production is distributed which makes it hard to take out. Once the US runs through their interceptor stocks, then Iran can start really going to town.

O7

that describes the US fairly accurately as a country right now

Oh I'm not taking anything he says seriously, I just think it's funny that he's now in a panic realizing things might not turn out as the neocons wanted

To be fair, they haven't fought a country that could meaningfully strike back since WW2.

I save the good headlines for the based instances :)