Trump did threaten to recommission Iowa during that speech he gave from her decks. Maybe he'll bring back gunship diplomacy too.
I remember in 2007 when Iran's "Navy" tried to blockade a US ship from passing. Several shots by US forces and 2 destroyers sunk quickly turned Iran's response from sovereignty to becoming escort ships for the US. lol I can't wait for the Trump/Iowa works if she is brought back.
I remember in 2007 when Iran's "Navy" tried to blockade a US ship from passing. Several shots by US forces and 2 destroyers sunk quickly turned Iran's response from sovereignty to becoming escort ships for the US. lol I can't wait for the Trump/Iowa works if she is brought back.
they reseve another reminder why they're america's bitch.
Trump did threaten to recommission Iowa during that speech he gave from her decks.
While an interesting thought and a nice dream; unfortunately, the last single man that actually knew how to reactivate the Iowa-class' engineering spaces, Cpt (ret) Michael Eagen, died suddenly on November 10, 2015 of unknown causes.
While it most certainly is possible, it would be extremely... difficult.
While an interesting thought and a nice dream; unfortunately, the last single man that actually knew how to reactivate the Iowa-class' engineering spaces, Cpt (ret) Michael Eagen, died suddenly on November 10, 2015 of unknown causes.
While it most certainly is possible, it would be extremely... difficult.
I'm amazed people are actually taking this seriously...
That is putting the cart before the horse. You first have to presume that Trump would actually follow through on something he said pretty much in the heat of the moment after actually being presented with the costs of his actions... and congress would have to approve it, and congress doesn't approve of anything, these days. (The same congress that, two years into the Flint lead poisoning disaster, just passed a budget that STILL fails to allocate any money to replace the poisoned water system because, you know, black people live in Flint.)
This is the same guy who spent a year talking about how Mexico would pay for the wall, but chickened out about even trying to mention it as soon as he was actually in the same room as the President of Mexico until he left the country. Instead, he talked about how he wanted to improve US/Mexico relations until he got back to the US in front of an anti-immigration crowd and gave a big speech about how all Mexicans were evil... A life-long salesman/con artist who bald-facedly changes everything he says he believes in depending on what audience he's trying to sell something to that day...
But sure, believe him when he says he's bringing back the days of battleships.
79248cm/s said: I remember in 2007 when Iran's "Navy" tried to blockade a US ship from passing. Several shots by US forces and 2 destroyers sunk quickly turned Iran's response from sovereignty to becoming escort ships for the US. lol I can't wait for the Trump/Iowa works if she is brought back.
I don't get why people are surprised other nations want their sovereign waters to not become parade grounds for another country's navy whenever they feel like it
79248cm/s said: Iran is definitely an enemy of the US, and so their sovereignty means nothing to that of USA and its allies from my perspective. You don't respect the wills of your enemy. It's a matter of choosing sides.
Outside the dickhead ayatollah (which the US put in charge anyways thanks to lack of foresight), Iran is more willing to be allied with the US than any of its neighbors, especially Russia.
Keep in mind, lately, Iran has scaled back its support of Hamas and backed off from the clusterfuck that is Israel (which everyone outside the Ayatollah has been wanting for years) and has forced the Ayatollah to actually retract a statement he had made regarding throwing acid on women's faces, and you have less of an 'enemy' of the US as much as a population under the heels of a power that is seeking to protect its own position at the expense of the nation and its people.
I mean, the Iran-Iraq war should have ended once Iraq was forced out of its boundary, and the military was planning on overthrowing the Ayatollah at that stage since the seat of power had yet to be consolidated by anyone. Of course, instead, the revolutionary guard forced the issue and instead the military was put into a grinder.
Since the United States supported Iraq, and Iran at this stage had sizable communist supporters in its ranks, we overlooked the violation of Iran's borders at the beginning of the war and the later use of chemical weapons by Iraq.
This type of thinking is how America became trapped in directionless conflicts in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Forces are committed because someone is deemed to be an enemy, leading to the deaths of thousands of US citizens and the eventual abandonment of the very people the US went in to support when its clear there will be no favorable outcome. Keep in mind, the original Vietnam conflict ended with a strong US vicotry since Operation Linebacker broke the NVA and it took them years, with uninterrupted Sino-Soviet support, to move against the incompetent and under-equipped ARVN. Even then, it wasn't until Congress basically refused to provide the aid we promised the South Vietnamese that they finally overcame their defenses and took Saigon.
So back to the average Iranian. According to every pit of legit study I've seen on it, the sentiment is much more Pro-western and wanting that sort of open lifestyle. Keep in mind that Iran is persian, not arab, and was a legit democracy up until Carter undermined that due to bringing in the Ayatollah.
So I'd say its pretty naive to put an all or nothing stance when dealing with other nations, especially when the sentiment within that nation is far more mixed than what mainstream media is ever going to explore.
Edit: I'm not saying Iran didn't do nothing, only that things aren't black and white
Since when did such a harmless comment section about a post depicting an American busting through a wall Kool-Aid style became a full blown political war zone?
Since when did such a harmless comment section about a post depicting an American busting through a wall Kool-Aid style became a full blown political war zone?
Adolf95 said: Since when did such a harmless comment section about a post depicting an American busting through a wall Kool-Aid style became a full blown political war zone?
At least for me, I'm not really too upset. People can have their opinions.
As well, Iowa is the harbinger of destruction, it is only fitting that her image drives people to madness