Good points. However, desperate stupid people do stupid things and they have a large nuclear arsenal -the gambit maybe to create a war to avoid the humiliation of economic collapse.

The US wont attack Iran or Syria. China and Russia have both said a resounding no to that.

The US has painted itself into a corner insofar as it has tried to convince the world it is the world’s superpower, able to do what it wants to.

The reality is that China is propping up a failing US economy and holds sufficient US treasury bonds to enable it to turn the US into a 3rd world country overnight.

The US has tried to big itself up yet has succeeded only in convincing its own population. The rest of the world is beginning to see the US for what it really is… a not very funny global joke.

A not-very-bright child grown obese on a diet of McSteroids but lacking the mature insight to be able to effectively use its artificial deformity, would be an appropriate analogy.

The world is now seeing through the US’ pretentions of ‘democracy’ and witnessing the US elites scrambling to plunder and exploit as much as they can before they are well and truly found out.

If you’re an American, don’t be expecting much sympathy for your as yet unrecognised plight. So far the US has so much blood on its hands the stain will never wash off.

Take your country back from the murderous parasites that currently rule over you and you will, at the very least, have my respect.

No worries. The Iranians (or Persians) are not stupid and will adopt an asymmetrical war fighting strategy. They will not win militarily but could inflict really heavy losses.

However, as many strategists have said – a battle does not win a war. In my opinion Iran wins the war as soon as the stupid Americans drop a boob or fire a cruise missile as oil prices will spike to $200+ a barrel. Western economies will collapse.

To subdue Iran the US would have to put boots on the ground and I don’t care what weapons they have they will take heavy losses. Also this would mean full US mobilisation and forced conscription of perhaps a million men. You can see how stupid the whole thing is.

Finally, its not about nuclear power, nuke bombs, but more about maintain dollar hegemony and stopping the Iranians trading oil in currencies other than the dollar (as Iraq and Libya wanted to do). If that happens the dollar will collapse and Americans will become poor very quickly as the dollar devalues. They have tried to undermine the Euro for the same reason as it is a competing reserve currency.

It was not an aircraft carrier. It was a Type 42 Destroyer (HMS Sheffield) on picket duty which was hit by an Exocet that did not detonate – fuel from the missile and the kinetic energy of the missile was enough to doom the Sheffield (not a torpedo). This was followed the Atlantic Conveyor (container ship) and finally HMS Glamorgan was hit by a land launched Exocet (this illustrates the threat of land launched missiles).

Point taken though in terms of a using a missile that may cost a million dollars destroying surface ship (carrier ten billion, Aegis Destroyer a billion or so dollars).

Exocet type missiles are probably a real threat if launched in waves. An even larger threat is the Russian made Mach 2.5 missiles and 200mph cavitating torpedoes.