And that's only the cotst of defence. I don't think we know yet how much actual damage there was and if Iran managed to destroy just one air defence system this price tag could possibly double.
Does no one remember Laos?
Either way, the more the better!
China has had a few years to be prepared for such things and has an idea of what can happen based on Ukraine so they do have a few different approaches, like seting a red line and nuking the US immediately after it's crossed or what I think is more likely, do nothing in regards to this intrusion other than station boats between the yankees and China while increasing decolonization efforts and sending weapons to Yemen and Russia, supporting a possible takeover of Ukraine while trying to push the more trobolesome elements of Ukraine to flee to the EU so they start causing trouble there.
Taking the opportunity of the colonialists probably not accepting the UNSC cease fire proposal to sanction them and key western industries related to them with the BRICS and Global South, increasing the cost of genocide to the whole west could also be a good move. And although I don't expect China going against the west in a more direct way diplomatically this could be the time for them to get maximum return on whatever they do, specially if they are already going to be blamed for it one way or another.
With the Yemeni enforced blockade I was thinking about this too but with the Panama Canal and how it closing could be a massive boost for the Global South by making resource transportation very expensive and such things, but looking at it now it apparently is, or was recently, already being affected by draught losing one third of normal traffic. So I guess anything else impeding or slowing global trade in the next few months could have massive consequences when taken toghether with the other events.
It is a training to test systems, soldiers/sailors and tactics.
So, as an example, for something like this they could have all the ships working as a unit advancing towards a target while maintaining a certain formation to see if they can do it without problems. Perhaps even with a submarine acts as an enemy trying to get close or they can also have drones fly toward them to simulate air attacks so that the ships can blow them up to see if everything works as it should.
Well except continue training Nazi terrorists to attack Russia
With their support from the population they may decide it's better to turn on NATO asking for land or other things.
And if they fight these new soldiers, which will probably happen even if by mistake, will Russia also consider it an act of war from the new participant countries and will they attack their territory for it?
The sionists declared Lula persona non grata in the colonialists stolen land and demanded he take back what he said. Lula said he would do no such thing and there was an official note from Brazil saying it is them who must apologize, but not to Brazil but to the world.
There was quite a lot more too but I guess that's the basic idea. As an extra note, when the fighting started and many people were being allowed out of Gaza to return to their countries the sionists did not allow the Brazilians out for a long time because Brazil had said things against the genocide then as well.
and the safety of the crew is its “foremost priority”.
If that really was the case that ship would never have gone there.
That "I" in "IOF" still looks bad to me. I think zionist terrorist would be better still.
Even if more dangerous saboteur is always another option.
Very interesting article and these points are pretty interesting themselves:
This by itself is a pretty big point, and with Iran's "New Equation" of responding "head on" to further colonist entity attacks on its personnel this could indeed mark a big shift in the dynamics of the region.