Donald Trump vows to 'take the oil in Iran' with more than 50,000 US troops standing ready in Middle East
Posted by PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit | EndlessWar | View on Reddit | 28 comments
jorel43@reddit
Lol he can't do that with 50,000 troops
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Iraq tried with millions of troops.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Which mountain pass are they supposed to walk/drive through?
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
The ones that have been mined.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
They don't need to be mined. Mountain passages are a kill zone.
Satellites don't work well, radios don't work well, helicopters and even low flying planes don't work well when it is foggy. Whomever controls the high ground can do anything to those below.
Even if US chose to airdrop 50,000 and lose half to the landings, they would not be able to truck in supplies.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
It might depend on how the US troops are deployed. Trump has a very short time, so he might need to hurry up. But his war planners might know a thing or two in Iranian weakness.
Iran has mined the Strait of Hormuz. That means the US landing on the Kurg Island is restricted to certain areas, along the western and southern shoreline of Iran and ground invasion from Iraq.
Iran does not need to wait until the D-Day.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
That is the topographical map of Iran. It is all mountains unlike Iraq which is all flat.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
US has bases surrounding Iran.
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ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
And most of those bases have been wrecked.
My point is which land path are they going to use to enter Iran based on the topography of the mountain landscape. Iraq is to the left and it is open desert plains. Iran is a mountain fortress. Which land route does one use to bring in an army without being destroyed by mountain fire?
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Right, but US is building 50,000 troops somehow.
Previously, they have managed to bomb a synagogue, for example.
https://youtu.be/EJAlkpSWox0&t=80
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
The Iranians told them: come closer.
There is rumors that Russia provided Iran with Iskanders.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pptJjiGY7O8
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Iran did not use Russian missiles but information alongside China. Russia supplies food, fuel, etc. But Russia might also have provided parts to build Iranian rockets. N Korea is also involved.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
I was saying there is rumors that Russia supplied these rockets. They will wipe out any ground invasion forces if it comes to that.
500 to 2000km range. Cluster or thermobaric warheads. Hypersonic and unstoppable by PAC-3 or THAADS. In Ukraine they are used to hunt down Patriot air defense systems or to take out whole barracks.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
I know the rumours, but haven't seen anything. Russia is preparing Su-35, etc. as purchased by Iran.
I mean you cannot know what Iran has been given by them.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Oh the SU-35s and S-400s have been delivered last year. Same as the Verba MANPADS.
S-500 were brought in but are operated by Russian aerospace forces to prevent a nuclear attack.
Iskanders though would mean death from above to any ground forces attempting to invade.
A lot of people don't understand that Iran has been holding back. Iran invented chess or at least gets credit for it. So their strategy is to use older tech and even sacrifice older figureheads as pawns while drawing out the enemies elite pieces.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Iran can develop its own. But NK and China might provide weapons, as well. That's why I said, they provided information, so Iran is now independent from the Western technology.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Iran can try to develop it's own. But it does not have decades to do so.
No country thus far has even reverse engineered S-300s. No country has figured out how to fuel hypersonics without Russian fuel.
This is not not some measuring contest though. I simply mentioned that Russia might have staged weapons to prevent not just nukes but also ground force invasions.
Older generation of Iranian rules were stuck up and stubborn. The new generation is pragmatic and more than happy to have Russia destroy the enemies.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Iran has developed what it needs to deal with in the region. It has been using its own technologies, so far. Iran has sufficient stockpile.
Sure, it cannot develop everything, so its friends are supplying.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Iran was given what it needs by Russia. Not sure why you are so against such basic facts. But whatever. You do you. Iranian people are happy and grateful to Russia for saving them.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DV2LSWtAgDg
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ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
Yeah not using meta as sources.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Do you want me to ask the officials?
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
You mentioned Iskander missiles, so I don't know.
exoriare@reddit
As someone with an overactive tendency to worry about WW2, I find Trump to be a breath of fresh air: he is so unfathomably stupid, there's no way the Pentagon will go for his bullshit. I kind of want Trump to demand the nuclear football, because there could be no more suitable way for his Presidency to end than by him being declared mentally incompetent by his own cabinet.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we may soon find ourselves the legendary explorers who discovered the long-rumored but never seen floor of Americans' capacity for stupidity.
PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Trump is playing his psychological war.
exoriare@reddit
Yeah, his 50k troops against a country of 90M. Trump sees war as just another kind of real estate deal, where all that matters is if you got Jewish financiers in your corner. Watch: soon he'll start talking about his plan to put some resorts on Kharg Island.
snokegsxr@reddit
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PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK@reddit (OP)
Published: 30/03/2026
Donald Trump has said he wants to "take the oil in Iran" - as thousands of US troops head to the Middle East, bringing the total American headcount in the region to as many as 50,000 [...] 10,000 more than usual [...]
Some 3,500 troops arrived in the Middle East on Friday, including around 2,200 Marines. Another 2,200 Marines are now on their way, with thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne Division also ordered to the region [...]
Tehran insists its head of state is safe and well.