Remember the ridiculous fairytale about the “Iranian terrorist’ arrested in the USA“? Well, it looks like these kinds of “kindergarten false flag operations” are picking up pace. After the clueless Iranian ‘terrorist’ in the USA, we were told about a clueless bomber in Delhi (who only managed to wound a few people) and a homemade toy bomb in Georgia (it used a regular hand grenade). Now it get even better: we have “Iranian bomber blows himself up” in Thailand.
This reminds me of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight comedy: if that is all the terrorism the world is facing, we can all safely sleep and just wait for these wannabe terrorists to blow themselves up to smithereens…
And to think that deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage called Hezbollah the “A-Team of terrorists” only to have the Iranians and Hezbollah act like teenage wannabe terrorists who cannot get a single attack to produce even one fatality!
Seriously, one can wonder what is going on here. After all, the US/Israeli Empire has the world for most experts on false flag terrorism! The people who organized Operation Gladio in Europe and who did 9/11 at home are not teenagers, but world-class experts with an impressive record of extremely well executed complex false flag operations.
And yet, the nonsense does not stop here.
Turns out, the Yanks are have sent an aircraft carrier into the Strait of Hormuz for a second time already. Now what are they trying to prove to the Iranians? How stupid they really are? Seriously, if there is one place on earth were you do not want to put an aircraft carrier it is a strait, any strait (nevermind an enemy controlled one!).
All this talk about the Iranians sinking a US carrier is utter nonsense unless, of course, the USN is dumb enough to actually put a carrier into the SoH! That is about the only spot in the world oceans were the Iranians really could sink a US carrier, rather rapidly and easily in fact.
But the USN is not dumb, not at all, and it fully understands that an aircraft carrier is a blue-water beast, that has to be keep hundreds of miles away from its potential targets. This is why USN air operations doctrine does not call for sticking a carrier in any strait, much less so an enemy-controlled one. In fact, I predict that the USN will flush all its major surface vessels out of the Persian Gulf before any strike on Iran (that would be a good ‘indicator and warning’ of an imminent attack) as any USN ship trapped inside the Persian Gulf when the missiles start flying would be a sitting duck for the Iranian military.
So unless some super secret (and skilled!) Iranian-Hezbollah bioterror attack force has managed to infect the Empire’s leaders with an infantile stupidity inducing virus, I don’t really understand what all this means.
It all looks like a bad B-series slapstick comedy movie and it all would be hilarious indeed if many thousands of innocent lives were not potentially at stake.
The Saker
UPDATE: good article here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30543.htm
Dear Saker,
Good points, fully agree with you.
I would draw your attention to incessant remarks by Russia’s top officer saying the last 2 days that in his view a decision to go to war on Iran is looming by the summer…
All these ops. come in that vein, and they are definitely False Flag attacks.
My prediction is that when Iran is fully convinced that an attack is coming for sure, they will seize the initiative somewhere, somehow…If the axis of the “Resistance” remains sitting on its head like that, i think that it will be a monumental disaster for the whole area and the world for that matter…
Best,
Joe
@Joe: My prediction is that when Iran is fully convinced that an attack is coming for sure, they will seize the initiative somewhere, somehow…If the axis of the “Resistance” remains sitting on its head like that
Dear Joe,
In most situations I would agree, but considering the politics of this one I say that Iran has to at least appear to be a sitting duck and let the Zionists fire the first shot. So God forbid they would respond with force to some provocation as that would give them the aggressor role and look how the Empire used that against, say, Serbia (fake Racak ‘massacre’) or Libya (“Viagra enhanced rapes”). As far as I am concerned, if the CVN USS Carl Vinson goes to anchor inside the port of Bandar Abbas the Iranians should do nothing more than protest at the UN.
Once the shooting begins in earnest, then all of that is off the table of course, and any response becomes rather easily justified.
My 2cts
The Saker
Your image blows. I skydive and that poster just reminds me that whuffos will never stop trying to rationalize their chickenshit fears.
@Anonymous: that picture is from the ‘demotivator’ series which aims at showing an *inspiring* image and then add a cynical/comical text to it. it has nothing to do with skydiving any more than this one has to do with lions:
http://demotivators.despair.com/arrogancedemotivator.jpg
this one with kayaking (which I practice):
http://demotivators.despair.com/believeinyourselfdemotivator.jpg
or this one with skying:
http://demotivators.despair.com/ineptitudedemotivator.jpg
check out the rest of them here:
http://www.despair.com/viewall.html
and chill – this was not a swipe at skydiving or skydivers :-)
re:skydiving
thought they were looking for a lost eye contact lens
re:Iran
Dear Saker,
Speculation warms up to Saturday’s first cup of coffee.
You state that the right place for an aircraft carrier is hundreds of miles out at sea.
In a flash, technology could change this. I ask, has this already happened?
Hypothetically, could a carrier or an entire carrier group be tagged with GPS homing devices as it moves through the narrow confines of a strait?
Could the Chinese possess this technology? Would they share it with the Iranians for deployment? Could the homing devices be dormant waiting for an incoming signal to activate before broadcasting their locations? Do the Chinese have missles accurate enough to home in on a signal hundreds of miles away and most importantly would they supply the Iranians with them?
Would the Chinese let anyone know beforehand that the American fleet hundreds of miles off the coast of Iran is already toast in the toaster waiting for the lever to be pushed?
@Jag Pop:Hypothetically, could a carrier or an entire carrier group be tagged with GPS homing devices as it moves through the narrow confines of a strait?
Well, I cannot prove a negative, but I will say that there is a lot of electronic warfare equipment in an aircraft carrier battle group to begin with, and that the US has the option of regionally degrading a GPS signal when needed. Of course, Iran could use a GLONASS signal instead..
Then, even if you get a GPS/GLONASS fix, the carrier is constantly moving and you would need to either get a realtime feed, or some other way to get the position to the incoming missile. That is not that easy at all, especially not if the Americans detect a missile launch and the lay down a dense jamming blanket all around their carrier.
Look, the USN knows that its carriers are the ultimate target and it went to great lengths to protect them. I think that in a war against Russia or China the carriers would be pulled back as they would be sitting ducks, but the Iranians simply do not have the kind of capabilities needed to track and attack a US carrier. For that you need satellites and fast nuclear attack submarines or special dedicated aircraft, none of which Iran has.
As for the Chinese, and the Russians for that matter, I don’t think that they will get directly involved in the shooting, its not their approach. Besides, Iran does not need their help to maybe not “win” but to deny the US/Israeli planners their goals (regime change)
Cheers :-)