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Biden Administration Sends Unmistakable Warning to Iran: a Ohio-class SSGN Will Soon Arrival at Your Doorstep.

The guided missile nuclear-powered submarine can carry about 150 Tomahawk missiles, each packed with a 1,000 lb. warhead.

It's clear that U.S. patience is wearing thin as Iranian-backed attacks on U.S. troops in the region have continued.

The fact that the U.S. has announced a SSGN deployment is rare enough in itself.

Our aircraft carrier battle groups are also on the move, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group having entered the Red Sea over the weekend. It is now in position to undertake airstrikes against Iran and Iranianp-backed groups in the region.

Meanwhile, the USS Carl Vinson strike group has arrived in the Western Pacific, while the USS Ronald Reagan makes a port call in the Philippines.

The Royal Canadian Navy frigate, HMCS Ottawa, conducted a transit of the Taiwan Strait with the destroyer USS Rafael Peralta, with the predicable protests from China.

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

You do know what 'gun boat diplomacy is don't you? It is a failed method of intimidation developed by the British when they would send in their battle ship to scare the locals. It doesn't work any more. America lost every war it started since 1945 including the one in Ukraine. No one is afraid of the US anymore. Its weapons have been shown to be for show not for battle. Once located one Kinzal missile will leave a radio active pile of rubble off the coast of Israel.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

" Once located one Kinzal missile will leave a radio active pile of rubble off the coast of Israel."

They'll have to fire a lot more than one, Hippy.
Even Russia claims only one in six hit their target in Ukraine.

"May 16 (Reuters) - Russia fired hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at Kyiv on Tuesday, with Ukraine saying it had shot down all six, and Russia claiming one got through air defences to destroy a U.S.-built Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile defence system."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-do-we-know-about-kinzhal-russias-hypersonic-missile-2023-05-16/

P.S. Speaking of radioactive rubble, Tehran is much more of a sitting duck than any ship, which is why the Ayatollahs wouldn't even try to launch a nuclear strike, even if they had the capability.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell yeah if you say so. Lol

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell now for the actual facts. Ukraine fired all of its patriot missiles at the incoming and the only effect was the loss of the patriot missiles and the loss of the launch system when the Kinzal took it out. There was the bunker 100 feet under ground. 1 kinzal and the bunker and personnel inside were gone. Silly you believing Ukraine's tall stories.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

Then explain to Reuters that they got it wrong.
They reported Russia's story that one out of six Kinzhals got through.

Silly you believing Russia's tall stories.

BTW, Hippy, according to you, weren't the Russians supposed to have taken all of Ukraine by now...? 🤔

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell tee Hee you cited the most unreliable wire service in the world. Remember Reuters covering the middle East and the moving bodies inside the body bags?

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

Oh, how silly of me...

I should have consulted your source... Pravda. 🤣

BTW, Hippy, according to you, weren't the Russians supposed to have taken all of Ukraine by now...? 🤔

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell I have never seen pravda but I certainly look for other sources that reuters. That outfit is a joke. They had to apologise for their bad behaviour. It was pretty funny though how the reporter was breathlessly intoning how the bodies in the body bags were the result of some heinous crime. Then one of the bodies developed an itchy nose and decided to scratch it.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell

Then explain to Reuters that they got it wrong.
They reported Russia's story that one out of six Kinzhals got through.

Silly you believing Russia's tall stories.

BTW, Hippy, according to you, weren't the Russians supposed to have taken all of Ukraine by now...? 🤔

He probably works in Moscow in pootin's propaganda office.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Diotrephes who you? Reuters is a joke. Go look at their record of misreporting. Well known fact. Ever hear of the green helmet guy? One of Reuters favorite sources. How one guy was in every conflict since the atom bomb I have no idea.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 Are you referring to Salam Daher?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Daher

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Diotrephes I honestly don't know the name of the guy but he was in video after video showing all these dead bodies. It was quite comical and the expression 'green helmet guy' still gets a rise out of a lot of people who were aware of what was going on. That completely aside reuters is not a reliable source of information. They have simply been shown to lie way too often. I am not talking about putting a slant on the news. I am talking about out and out fraudulent statements.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

BTW, Hippy, according to you, weren't the Russians supposed to have taken all of Ukraine by now...? 🤔

I mean, since according to you, the Ukrainians have lost 10 times as many soldiers as the Russians have, there can't be many Ukrainians left. 🙄

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell No. I never said they would take all of Ukraine. They are employing a very wise strategy though. Having the Ukrainians constantly attack them works very very well. I see Ukraine is starting to run of of men and armor and ammunition. Kind of sad now that Zelensky is declaring himself president for life by banning all presidential elections. His life may be fairly short as I hear that the Ukrainian military is not too happy with his leadership and his silly demands that they hold positions that can not be held. Maybe you should find some better sources of information. Reuters isn't working out too good for you.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

"No. I never said they would take all of Ukraine."

Strange... they tried to do exactly that last year in their "special military operation" to install a puppet government in Kyiv of the Belarus variety.

Much to your (and your "news" sources) chagrin, however, it didn't quite work out.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell Again you get your information from Reuters? Too Funny. Nowhere has Russia ever said that it wanted all of Ukraine. The eastern part of Ukraine who wanted to join Russia yes. The rest, Russia has always said it wants Ukraine to be neutral.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

Yeah, "neutral" like Belarus is "neutral". 🤣

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell As opposed to Romania maybe Poland How about Finland? If you are playing that game you will lose. Nice try though.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

You (and Putin) have already lost that game, Hippy.

Finland and even Sweden have joined NATO as a result of Putin's wish for a "neutral" Ukraine.

P.S. Putin's actions spoke louder than his words, Hippy.

So did Finland's and Sweden's.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell Not on Putin's side. I support the right of Ukrainians to determine their own future. I have met several from Eastern Ukraine who want their region to become part of Russia. I met them around 2015. They spoke Russian at home and most of their business life was also in Russian. They told me about how Ukraine was shelling them. In fact one young woman told me that her mother's house had been destroyed the night before. According to the mother who was not at home when the house was destroyed was destroyed by a Ukrainian shell. That was in 2015. I have read other reports that said the biggest question Eastern Ukrainians had was "What is taking Putin so long".

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@hippyjoe1955

You do know what 'gun boat diplomacy is don't you? It is a failed method of intimidation...

Just because the Brits' results were a mixed bag doesn't mean it hasn't worked out pretty well for us.

U.S.–Algerian War, 1815
Commodore Perry, Japan, 1853
USS Baltimore incident, 1891
Hawai'i, 1893
Venezuela, 1899
Dominican Republic, 1905
Voyage of the "Great White Fleet," 1909
Occupation of Veracruz, 1914
Turkish straits crisis (battleship Missouri), 1946
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Operation Brother Sam, 1964
USS Kitty Hawk ramming Soviet sub, 1984
Aircraft from the USS Saratoga intercepting/forced landing of plane carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers, 1985
Gulf of Sidra, 1986
Operation Praying Mantis (Iran), 1988
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1995-96
Gulf War, 1991
Carrier strike force to the Yellow Sea, 2010

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@beckyromero And when the yanks lose the sub an a few aircraft carriers they will learn that they are not nearly as powerful as they delude themselves into thinking. They did lose the war in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Ukraine so they are not nearly as strong as some neocon warmonger wants to make them out to be. in fact the US has never actually won a war on its own since forever. Not sure why any American keeps wanting to support the Military Industrial Complex as said complex robs the average American blind and returns nothing. I mean really what was the US doing in Ukraine besides supporting Nazis? What is the US doing in Israel besides supporting Jewish supremists aka Nazis.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@hippyjoe1955

"And when the yanks lose the sub an a few aircraft carriers they will learn that they are not nearly as powerful as they delude themselves into thinking."

And when was the last time the Yanks lost a sub or aircraft carrier due to hostile fire?

That's right, Hippy, not since WW2. 🙄

"I have met several from Eastern Ukraine who want their region to become part of Russia."

Yes, yes, Hippy, we've heard about your experience with a few "Ukrainians" who want to be part of Russia before. They remind me of the "Czechs" in the Sudetenland that wanted to become part of Germany in 1938. 🙄 🙄

"I have read other reports that said the biggest question Eastern Ukrainians had was "What is taking Putin so long"."

What's taking Putin so long is that he failed in his attempt to decapitate the "Nazis" in Kyiv. Going on two years now.

Very strange how the Ukrainians are still holding out, since they are suffering "10 to 1" military losses compared to the Russians, or so you tell us Hippy.
🙄🙄🙄

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Thinkerbell your lack of knowledge is only surpassed by your ignorance of world events so when NATO pulls it's support from Ukraine and Ukraine is permanently divided are you going to be surprised or simply deny it ever happened. You neocons are a joke.