Bromagia wrote:Atkemri wrote:I personally don't know why the U.S is being blamed for being agressive when Iran harried our ships but I really hope that this remains in the saber rattling category. Especially considering Russian ships did the same thing around the same time. link for that here
Everything the US does is some nefarious plot, don't ya know?US-SSR wrote:
Have you seen them? One guy with a burp gun mounted in the prow of a speedboat vs. an armored frigate? Are you kidding? Meanwhile Russian planes buzz US military aircraft around the world and Trump says...fuck all. imo the Iranians just need to dig up some dirt about Hunter Biden and they can play speedboat chicken with heavily armed US warships all day and all night.
As was said before, the speed boats could have explosives. Plus, self defense exists as a right even if your assailant would be relatively ineffectual.
A shitty regional power doesn't get the same treatment as a global player when doing unsafe and provocative things? How shocking.
The point being that regional powers and/or global players that play chicken with US assets should get the same treatment rhetorically, and that the reason Putin fares better than the mullahs on that score is that Trump owes his election to the former and wants to keep on his good side in case he can help in 2020. The numbnuts who blew up the Cole weren't Revolutionary Guards, they were hired stooges. Maybe the Russian MiGs have explosives too, why not sink them since we're shooting down pissant Iranian speedboats? Again the answer is because Trump is a Russian puppet and Putin's bumboy.