Since there's no declared state of war, we're just killing people to show that we can. "What are you going to do about it?"



Source: https://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-twilight-zone-its-good-life-1961.html

This will backfire.

More rain today, I think. And good morning.

So what.

An announcement geared to please the audience of one and the slack jawed Fox News viewers.

People died. In an illegal war.

My point was that lethal measures orders of magnitude greater than a target which posed no immediate threat were unleashed for no good reason. A show. A sound bite.

This is the equivalent of blowing up a speedboat in the Caribbean.

(A massive understatement)

But within the conflict I don’t see anything “illegal”. It is a military vessel heading towards a war zone.

The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) carrier group is currently operating in the Arabian Sea, not far from Sri Lanka

There were already claims the Lincoln [/i was sunk or at least put out of action a couple days ago.

Nothing in the manifest of the sunken ship was even remotely dangerous to a carrier group. It was a show.

The Qader medium-range anti-ship cruise missiles she carried with a range of 300km and a sea-skimming profile and a 440lb warhead wouldn't exactly tickle IMO.

And close enough and her Valfajr homing torpedo's would also be dangerous, 15k range, 300k warhead.

The Iranian "frigate" was nowhere near the size or complexity of what our Navy would consider a frigate (Closing on a billion dollars these days)... but it was fairly new and undoubtedly much more expensive than the torpedo (in the low single-digit millions).

when the USS Torsk sank a Japanese frigate.

A nuclear submarine has torpedoed a ship in combat.

(formerly the USS Phoenix, a WWII-era light cruiser)

It was very far from the combat zone and the gauntlet of American Air Power it would have had to traverse to make it to the Red Sea.

RIP poor Iranian sailors. They didn't deserve to die for Trump's self-aggrandizement.