Official Iran conflict game thread.

CallMeBigErn said:
Well, we can, but we just don't want to pay the price. In due time, however, we will be forced to if Don keeps this war up.

Holden Bloodfeast and the Tugrats can't wait.
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Agreed! What did it take to invade Iraq again? 560,000 troops? Iran have like 3.5 times the population of Iraq. There’s no way in hell anyone would be onboard with committing over a million troops to secure the strait.

And I’m not being a Trump hater, but got damn if I personally can tell you what the Iranians would have done a month ago, I sure as hell think the adults in charge would have had a plan in place to deal with this and they failed. Iran is going to come out better than they were before with a more hardline regime.
 
RaceBannon said:
What are they going to keep it closed with?
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With the same shit they have been.

Speed boats, anti-ship missiles, mines, drones, drone boats, shoulder-fired rockets, artillery in the mountains, etc, etc, etc. The geography makes it real easy to defend. You need a huge buffer zone on the Iranian coast to control the threat, requiring a large amount of troops, more than we have there so far. Even then it's not fail-safe because Shaheds can be launched from 1500 miles away.

It's hard. Iran is a bitch.
 
Sledog said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2042034641821962727
NATO is over!
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Good luck.
 
Sledog said:
If he defunds NATO it's done. Multiple ways to skin cowards. He's the commander in chief and can also just move the troops and equipment.
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NATO isn't funded, smoothbrain. It's a collection of individual nations paying for their own defense. Apparently Trump wants to increase our defense budget by 50% to 1.5 trillion next year. The Tug cheers. It still won't be as much as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Even with that increase, which won't happen, we're still slacking.
 
CallMeBigErn said:
NATO isn't funded, smoothbrain. It's a collection of individual nations paying for their own defense. Apparently Trump wants to increase our defense budget by 50% to 1.5 trillion next year. The Tug cheers. It still won't be as much as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Even with that increase, which won't happen, we're still slacking.
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From Gemini AI:
  • USA Share: The U.S. accounts for approximately 62% to 66% of the total defense spending of all NATO allies combined.



  • Dollar Amount: In 2025, U.S. defense spending reached an estimated $980 billion, while the total for all NATO members was roughly $1.6 trillion.


 
Luke Gromen said the US's situation is to be likened to the Gallipoli Disaster. I had never heard of it, so I went to my pro-Antifa Gemini AI to ask...

The Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916)​

The Gallipoli Disaster was a failed Allied offensive during World War I aimed at forcing the Ottoman Empire out of the war. Orchestrated largely by Winston Churchill, the plan was to seize the Dardanelles straits, capture Constantinople, and open a direct supply route to Russia.

The campaign was defined by catastrophic planning and execution. Allied troops—primarily British, French, and ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand) forces—faced rugged terrain and entrenched Ottoman defenders. After eight months of brutal trench warfare and over 250,000 Allied casualties, the forces evacuated in early 1916 without achieving their objectives.

Impact on the United Kingdom​

The failure had profound consequences for British politics and morale:

  • Political Fallout: Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, was disgraced and forced to resign. The disaster also contributed to the eventual collapse of H.H. Asquith’s Liberal government, leading to a national coalition.
  • Strategic Shift: The failure reinforced the "Western Front" mentality, convincing military leaders that the war could only be won by defeating Germany in France and Belgium, rather than through "side-shows" in the East.
  • Global Reputation: It shattered the myth of British naval invincibility and sparked a growing sense of national identity in Australia and New Zealand, eventually distancing them from British colonial oversight.
 
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