Brad Cooper

why I think the United States is still attempting to pursue a military option.

I believe that there's still three military courses of action that the joint staff, the joint force commander being the central command commander, Admiral Brad Cooper, are presenting to the secretary and the president.

One, we know that the United States is conducting deep, robust, high-risk reconnaissance in the Strait of Hormuz.

Recall just a couple days ago, Iran recovered one of these.

and strike the carrier or other warships.

So with these options available, why would the Americans consider an operation to capture Cargarden when they cannot even defend Cargarden once they capture it?

In the decision matrix, the weighted decision matrix being presented to the joint force commander, I don't think that that course of action is a highly favorable, but I do believe that joint planners are nonetheless planning for it because I believe that the president at least has that in his mind as some type of option.

So The reason it makes sense, although seemingly it doesn't make sense, it makes sense in terms of the President of the United States looking for a way out of this conflict.

But here is where it gets truly strange.

Who had officially declared the Strait of Hormuz completely clear of mines just weeks before? Donald Trump himself and Admiral Brad Cooper of CENTCOM.

And then, in the very same statement on September 1st, Trump announced that the United States struck Iran to prevent it from seeding Hormuz with mines, a strait which, at that moment, contained no mines.

Read that sentence again.

That day was just another day in the war for us, until the moment where we got hit by an Iranian weapon.

Admiral Brad Cooper is the American commander in charge of the war and the rescue operation.

How many of these missiles does Iran still have?

Yeah, I think best not to talk about from an operational security perspective of what we know of what they have, you know, given where we are.

The military part of this in terms of ki- kinetic operations, we're, you know, a week to two weeks away from absolutely wiping them out.

Um, so Donald Trump at any given moment could put his finger on the button, give the g- give the call to Admiral, uh, to Admiral Cooper-

With the IDF

... and, and w- and then together with the IDF, it, take out the rest of their leadership, take, uh, further into the nuclear dust, take out Kharg Island, take out their, uh, their, uh, their oil infrastructure, take out, uh, their airports and their bridges and their roads which allow them to trade, so we have a naval blockade.

The pattern is now explicit policy.

CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated it, quote, if you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours.

we will not hesitate to defend american forces and if necessary destroy iran's limited and exposed oil fleet in quote sincom confirmed it permanently disabled the irgc crude oil carrier off the coast of karg island and another near jask and completely destroyed the unladen carrier in the Gulf of Oman by striking the vessel in multiple critical locations to render it inoperable.

That was after the crew was directed to abandon ship.

Of course, there's a leadership challenge with this.

I like how Brad Cooper handled it.

First, he got the department to announce the George Washington as the relief for Abraham Lincoln.

That terminates that angst.

And this is really important.

And the other thing that's important, when I look at the CENTCOM releases, I look at this particular language that Admiral Cooper is using.

He's saying that U.S. ships are evading what the Iranians are firing, which means it's active.

So we are using a combination of our capabilities, software, AI, overmatching anything that the Iranians can fire at the United States and then destroying their tankers in