AP, Not The Onion: Trump To Rename Persian Gulf
Is this the big announcement?
Trump plans to announce that the US will call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to two U.S. officials.
Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf.
The two U.S. officials spoke with The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. The White House and National Security Council did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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Philip Pilkington @philippilk
A fairly pointless turn on the Houthi merry-go-round. Although we had our doubts confirmed about US missile defence capabilities (good luck with the exports!). From the leaked messages Waltz and Hegseth own this.
Blaming Waltz? Reasonable guess, but who selected him in the first place? The fact that the climbdown from the war on Yemen war caught the Israelis totally off guard—by their own account—suggests that this may be Trump’s way of expressing displeasure at Israel’s failure to cooperate with him re Gaza and Iran.
About the tariffs:
India - Pakistan:
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
With a Pakistani AWACS aircraft, the J-10 or JF-17 could have launched a PL-15E air-to-air missile from a 145 km distance, as soon as the Rafale launched its Scalp missiles on its land targets.
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MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Confirmed Chinese-made PL-15E air-to-air missile first ever kill.
The victim: a French-made Rafale of the Indian Air Force x.com/hurin92/status…
Philip Pilkington @philippilk
Pity India wasted a bunch of money on junk jets from France. A few ballistic missiles would have performed much better. Maybe they should reach out to the Houthis for military procurement advice.
The Rafale is France's most advanced fighter jet, the one capable to deliver Nuclear bombs. It's not a good look for France that India lost 3 of them during the first night of a conflict.
Megatron @Megatron_ron
NEW:
 Pakistan used Chinese long-range air-to-air missile PL-15E to shoot down the Indian jets
Parts of the missile fell in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India - Indian media reports.
The missile reaches speeds over Mach 5 and has a range of 200-300 km for the domestic version in China and about 145 km for the export variant (PL-15E) used by Pakistan.
Terrible weapon...
Will Tulsi tell Trump what this means? Think twice, thrice, before getting into wars. Iran has far better AD and strike missiles than the Houthis.
Trump is being proactively chaotic and unpredictable. This is a distraction, or more specifically, a smoke screen to conceal his underlying geopolitical strategy. The real bad guys are a cabal of financial power players located in Europe and London that have ruled from the shadows for centuries. They foster endless war as an instrument of control. And they must be defeated or our misery will be endlessly ongoing. That is the fight that Trump is concealing with his feigned insanity. Either he succeeds or we all lose big.
Wow on the effectiveness of the Chinese PL-15E air-to-air missile. The export version is equivalent to the standard western air to air missile, and the non export version is even better.
The use by India of aircraft launching air ground missiles, verses drones and ground to ground missiles is another example of how the Ukraine, Houthi, and Iranian experience are rewriting what’s best practices.
Israel, India, and the U.S. are still using mostly aircraft for ground attacks.
References:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-15