NYT Admits Iran Rendered Virtually All US Gulf Bases Uninhabitable
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NY Times admits that Iran’s strikes have driven US forces from most of their bases in the Middle East:
In response, I wrote on X:
As we have seen, the USS Gerald R Ford has flunked out of the Middle East, US bases are in ruins or deserted, and US strategic air defense radar installations have gone up in smoke. As others have noted, no adversary in history can be said to have achieved such an effect against the US—except maybe the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. But while US troops have been kicked out of their bases, talk of major buildups continues. Some believe it is bunk: Journalist Ken Klippenstein writes that his own military sources have informed him that all such rumors are just exaggerations to “frighten” Iran:
He goes on to note that most of the troop transports have not even left the docks:
It’s unclear how true or untrue that may be, but his assertions that the Pentagon has been exaggerating its bravado to please Trump certainly jibes with new revelations from earlier today that Trump has been fed a steady “highlight reel” diet
You literally can’t make this up: Trump believes the war is going expertly because he’s glued to highlight reels showing a bunch of decoys and old garbage trucks being hit by million dollar “precision missiles”. All the while, the US continues being exposed and overextended, with an F/A-18 Hornet appearing to be hit by an Iranian manpad over Chabahar port earlier:  The fact that this is Chabahar right on the Gulf means the US certainly does not enjoy any kind of ‘air superiority’, if its fighter jets are not capable of operating without threat of being shot down at the very outskirts of Iran; forget about fantasies of “deep penetrations”. Due to his inability to convince Iran that it has lost the war, Trump has continued TACO-ing out of his threats, extending his scary ‘deadlines’ time and time again—all while desperately scheming to cajole Iran into accepting his back-door negotiations:
The bottom line of the war is this: The US has nothing left to hit because Iran has gone “dark” and salted away its premiere systems, bunkered down its leadership, and only launches missiles from underground cities the US and Israel can’t penetrate because they’re deep inside Iran and would require establishing the “air superiority” that was said to have already been in place since day one. 
As such, Trump is buying time in angling for a gimmick that can get him ‘victory’ optics while secretly begging Iranian negotiators to take the bait and give in to hand him his “deserved” triumph. Iran appears to intuit US’s weak handed bluff and is continuing on, slowly garroting Trump’s war effort and political capital.
Some now believe that Trump’s waffling is again concealing a potential “surprise attack” to seize Kharg or a different island, given that Trump had before laid a hint about delivering “one last massive blow” to Iran before ending the war. Ryan Grim from Dropsite news:
Iran’s parliamentary speaker:
In reality, it’s likely Trump himself does not know what he plans to do and is merely operating on a daily whim based on how much his “highlight reel” briefings have jacked up his endorphins that particular morning. The ‘strategic ambiguity’ card is a given for the sake of buying time, but it’s clear now that Iran is not being degraded at all and is actually only growing stronger given that socio-political consolidation has been going throughout the country owing to the decomposition of the West’s various psychological narratives. Personally, I lean towards Ken Klippenstein’s earlier thesis that the supposedly-ongoing concentration of US ground troops is meant more as a psychological threat factor to leverage Iran into negotiations. But that doesn’t mean that should this leverage option fail, Trump won’t legitimately consider deploying the troops in some way shape or form—though no one yet can come up with an even semi-plausible scenario for how exactly such an operation could unfold. Remember: it’s easy to land the initial force on a given enemy territory or beachhead—it’s the follow-up logistics sustainment that becomes untenable. Russia could land all kinds of paratroops on Odessa beach if it really wanted to, but how in the world would it ever keep them supplied for more than a day? The same goes for the various Iranian islands besides Kharg which are allegedly “in play” for an amphibious and/or air assault of some kind.
— A few last items: Russia continues cleaning up:
— The triumphant military commander snoozes through a highly important meeting about his already-won war:  What’s the point of paying attention when you’ve already won? Being alert is for losers. — US Senator asks a very obvious question about the war’s purpose:
 — On March 16th, Trump said 90% of Iran’s ballistic missile launchers were destroyed:
On March 24th, he said the number was now…82% destroyed: — Lastly, Iran has been dancing all over the US when it comes to agitprop content. The latest cleverly vows vengeance for all those historically oppressed by the ‘Epstein Empire’: 
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Indian refineries purchased 60 million barrels of Russian oil for delivery in April. That is twice as much as in February, before the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, Bloomberg notes.
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