Razia (She/Her)

You’re welcome! As someone with an amatuer interest in naval analysis and a naval brat, I had to call family members in excitement to celebrate when I heard this, it’s a historic event and massively embarrassing and worrisome for the US. It also puts them on the back foot in their naval competition with China, which it was decisively losing even before this war and now the gap is widening.

It’s surreal to see when the US seemed untouchable for so long. I suspect that this is going to be remembered as one of the headline events of the war looking back, and a significant moment in the overall decline of the US empire.

I’ve seen pictures on the Daniel Davis Deep Dive channel in an interview with Larry C that were apparently of the rear of the USS Ford in dock. It was completely blackened with signs of fire damage and damage from hits of some kind. That, plus this statement by Trump, leads me to believe that the ship was actually hit multiple times by most likely drones and had a significant fire lasting 30 hours. If this was the scale of the damage, there were also likely many casualties that were initially covered up by the ‘laundry fire’ story. Very likely damage to aircraft too since it seems to have affected the hangar as well.

Trump could be talking about it because the US needs to soften the reveal of the information, because this isn’t something that can be hidden for very long when the ship is sitting damaged in port in Greece.

If this is all the case, and at this point I think it is, this is a huge achievement by Iran; apart from the severe prestige damage (this is literally largest and most expensive capital warship in the world) and the loss of vital functionality for the US because they can’t bring all 11 carriers into use at the same time, in the long term this was the first of the next generation of carriers and older Nimitzes are heading for retirement, while newer ships building and commissioning normally takes around 10 years (longer for the Ford) so this creates a gap in US carrier capacity for potentially years.

He speaks like an academic, he admits when he doesn’t have enough information about something. He’s definitely speaking on behalf of the government but I have yet to hear anything from him that was not based on the facts; reasonable predictions, which often prove true. He also speaks well and passionately, and I quite admire him.

I found out that he fought in the Iran-Iraq war as a 16 year old, which comes through in the way he approaches things. I dearly hope that he survives all this, wouldn’t put it past the Zionists to come after figures like this, might even hit his university like the bloodthirsty monsters that they are.

Western media in general has reached the point where listening to it is likely to do the reverse of informing you, it will actively misinform you and confuse your picture of the situation. I only check it for the biggest most verifiable facts these days and note the spin and move on. It’s as bad as Pakistani media these days, no point listening if you actually want to understand what’s happening.

Lmao, a girl can dream!

I’m genuinely impressed by the way they’re playing their cards.

The inherent disadvantage of ballistic missiles is that the cost of delivering a particular explosive payload to a given location is quite high. The advantage, is being able to strike at great range at short notice and being able to hit the enemy without them being able to easily defend the entire threatened area and without exposing your forces to easy counterattack.

So the IRGC is playing a careful game of demonstration and pressure. They demonstrate they can hit their targets, show that defensive systems are ineffective, deplete their magazines and remove their early detection capabilities. Now the US-Israel complex can’t predict when and where they will be hit, and recognize that anything can be destroyed at any time. Suddenly, by applying 20-30 missiles and a relative handful of drones per day, striking randomly without giving respite, announcing target lists (as above), picking and choosing the most vulnerable, cost-effective targets, Iran is able to completely paralyze the economies and normal life of essentially all of their enemies across West Asia while also degrading their military capabilities.

I’m convinced that we’re witnessing a major evolution in the future of warfare centered on drones and ballistic missiles across Ukraine and the Iran war and the IRGC is currently defining military history in a way that will be studied for a long time to come.

It’s very impressive, and it’s so satisfying to see the imperialists cowering for once!

Thank you for introducing me to this site, great analysis from Indi and so well written!

I’m pretty sure that this one is from the 12 day war, I remember seeing it last year. https://www.douyin.com/video/7613044092256075369

Great compilation though, I’ve got my eyes on Rednote for videos dodging Israeli and US censorship.

The fact that the actual community has no real recourse on who gets to moderate it is a major and deliberate problem in the platform because it allows the head mods to effectively silence things on the platform they don’t like, mainly stuff that goes against US imperial interests.

This is so incredibly disappointing, but not surprising, it was one of the few real socialist subs and it was posting information about likely hits in Israel and on US facilities and Reddit is desperately trying to silence that.

It’s incredibly self-defeating to desperately want manufacturing to come back to the US, and then punish the Chinese when they do actually go and invest, I love how consistently the US is pulling the rug out from under its own feet these days.