‘Als het front in Oekraïne valt, stoten de Russen door, het is een triomfantelijk genocidaal regime’. Een gesprek met waarvan ik af en toe dacht, nu loopt het uit de hand. Maar goed dat Joris Luyendijk bij @De_NieuweWereld was en met Ad in discussie ging youtu.be/csXdK-01YE0?is=m6oQ…

🏴‍☠️⚔️ How Things Go From Bad to Worse The US Navy, when CSG-10 arrives on station, will have as many as 17 destroyers in the vicinity of the Arabian Sea. I figure the admirals are not as clueless as they often seem, so they will deem it necessary to use at least a full dozen of those destroyers to protect the carriers, leaving five to play pirate, along with Marines from the amphibious ready group. That game will last until one or more of the following very conceivable things happen: 🔹 The Iranians execute powerful strikes against a destroyer or two. 🔹 One or more helicopters is shot down trying to land Marines on a big ship where an ambush has been laid. 🔹 An aircraft carrier ventures too close and is — in a flash, as it were — disabled by a "lucky shot" (or four) from a large salvo of Iranian drones and missiles. 🔹 The Chinese and Russians start running warship-escorted convoys. The myth of American military impregnability has already been deeply shaken by the events of the past 52 days. But the imperial priests and priestesses have persuaded the generals and admirals that the empire must be preserved at all costs. This is how things go from bad to worse.