Post
The strategic situation is also much more complex at this moment than many American's likely understand.
There's a LOT of Russian and Chinese military assets already in the area due to joint exercises they recently did in partnership with Iran.
They are not likely to kinetically interact with the US or Israel but are likely providing the exact same type of ISR feeds to Iran that the US fed Ukraine during the initial Russian attacks on Kyiv.
Iran is kinda OP right now.
Literally just TWO days ago China was publicly flexing their ISR capability. On the 26th they published maps and photos of where the US's most valuable fighter just were stationed.
The US flew hundreds of flights over the last week to move these fighter jets and their support crews into theater.
It's clear China has the ability to track US assets in near realtime and likely published these maps as a deterrent.
So I've been digging through the OSINT on the brewing US conflict on Iran for basically the last month and another aspect I've been keenly watching is the sale of Chinese made anti-ship missiles to Iran.
Having high quality missiles used to be unique to the US, but now EVERYONE has missiles.
And the problem is that missiles are a massive existential threat to US carrier groups.
So you gotta ask yourself...
If Iran (alone) can do THIS to a key strategic US Navy installation within ONE hour of US aggression. A base with world class air defense.... what fucking chance in hell do aircraft carriers have to stay in this fight for the long haul?
So lets all listen carefully to how the US media spins this, because if Iran can keep this up the US is gonna have a couple fewer military installations in short order.
@joebeone
And there are visible architectural discrepancies between the two images along top and bottom
Thanks, used different media clip of the aftermath in Bahrain.
