We are definitely not having a good day where the war is concerned. Intelligence has come in for what Iran has left that could be used, and it’s not good. This is ongoing proof that no one in the maladministration thinks. When experts start weighing in, it’s time to be concerned, if not actually distressed. Acknowledgement to Raw Story:
A new intelligence report on Iran’s military capabilities alarmed an expert during a CNN interview. CNN reported, citing sources inside the Trump administration, that the president’s intelligence community has determined that Iran has roughly half of its missile launchers intact and that thousands of one-way attack drones are still in the country’s arsenal. That’s despite President Donald Trump claiming that the country had been completely decimated during his national address on Wednesday.
Y’know, Trump and Hegseth don’t know what truth is, because they never tell it. They could have been telling the truth at some point, but we ignored it because it was sheltered and surrounded by lies. We know what they are like, but it’s still frustrating that we have to find our news elsewhere because we can’t depend on them.
Sue Gordon, Trump’s principal deputy director of national intelligence during his first administration, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that the new assessment worried her.
Heh, I just learned something. Deputy Director of DNI. I had no idea that there was such a thing. I’m feeling very uneducated these days. If Ms. Gordon is worried, we can take that as a bad sign. We’ll continue to watch things go downhill in the Iran War. We’ll continue to use up munitions that can’t be easily replaced. We’ll continue to lose choppers and planes. We don’t know about downed choppers …. Yet. We will get the short end of the stick.
“What worries me is the signal — why is someone releasing it now? Was this not brought up in the discussion about what the likely outcome is going to be when we planned our assault?” Gordon said. Gordon added that the assessment also called into question Trump’s “two to three week” timeline for ending the war. “It raises real questions about how we leave this scenario,” Gordon said.
Yes, why *is* it being released now and why *wasn’t* it discussed in the planning? That’s disconcerting. We already know about and have discussed “two weeks”. Not happening. And leaving? We have no idea *if* that can happen and *when* it can happen. Iran is still firing at countries where we have bases. They rightfully don’t want to be part of this debacle. That’s another facet that doesn’t seem to have been discussed. Getting out? With the Strait still closed down? With cargo ships and oil & LNG tankers sitting and waiting? Our administration has put the entire world in a bind. They want the Strait back, but we need to do it because the issue belongs to us. We started this. Nice going, guys. We’re done for.
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Maybe someone should have explained that the original meaning of decimate was to reduce by one tenth.
Huh. I did not know that. Thank you for the information!
It seems that nowadays, people use it to mean obliterated. I’m sure that’s what Trump meant.
What makes her think that there was ANY planning.
Donald just wanted his army (which he doesn’t consider people) to make stuff go boom.