Ryan Grimm, for his part, said that Naval Special Warfare units were given deployment orders today. My current bet is that Kharg is the distraction and they actually want to make a play for Iran’s uranium stockpile. Arguably even stupider than trying to take Kharg Island.

We’re going to see dead seal operators like frankly no one has seen outside of the vietnam war folks!

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    a play for iran’s uranium stockpile.

    ken klippenstein’s stuff is usually good, but genuinely in what sense would this remotely be possible, in a logistical sense? isn’t “iran’s uranium stockpile” effectively literal tons of material to move that is also currently buried under bombed nuclear development facilities? last time i checked there’s no such thing as SEAL team Concrete so… does anyone know what i’m missing here?

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      The “going to get the uranium” strategy is something I’ve basically only seen floated on this website by MarmiteLover123 and he’s acknowledged this would require special equipment and days/weeks of work to complete, imo highly unlikely

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          Uranium. Right? We have the best uranium. We have so much of it, you wouldn’t believe it. People say, ‘Sir, what are you doing with all that uranium?’ I say, we’re making supersoldiers. The best supersoldiers.

          Now, the radical left - they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s dangerous, you can’t expose people to radiation.’ Wrong. I’ve seen the movie. You know the one? With the guy? He gets the radiation and then, bam! He’s unbeatable. He’s got the strength, the speed. The skin. Very tough skin. They say my skin is very tough, by the way.

          But the lying media, they hear ‘uranium’ and they panic. They say, ‘Trump wants to give our troops cancer.’ I’m not going to give them cancer. My uncle - a very smart man, very smart - he told me all about uranium. He told me about nuclear power. Beautiful big towers. I want to give them power. Tremendous power. We’re going to have soldiers who can lift a tank over their heads. I’ve seen the schematics. They’re beautiful schematics. I said to the generals, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ They said, ‘Sir, the Geneva Convention…’ I said, ‘Forget the Convention. We’re making a new one. The Trump Convention.’ It’s going to be much better, with much more winning.

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      didn’t trump say he was going to try something like this? obviously there are a lot of problems with that idea just on the face of it but yk. some people theorized it was their exit strategy. take a mysterious box from the coast, load it into a helicopter, declare victory in the middle east

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          of course it’s not gonna work. but trump might try anyway so he can declare victory and boost his numbers at home. or because his techbro contingent wants to abandon west asia completely. or maybe he won’t and the us will be economically fucked for a while.