🇺🇸✡️ President Truman in unearthed letter to Eleanor Roosevelt and separate note (both 1947) compares Zionists to Hitler & Stalin:

“US Zionists will eventually prejudice everyone [against them]... Jews are like all under dogs - when they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.”

Full quote:

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP [displaced persons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.”

Handwritten note by President Harry S. Truman dated July 21, 1947, summarising remarks made during a meeting with former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷📝 The deployment of Marines to the Strait of Hormuz suggests the US intends on seizing several Iranian islands in the Strait.

The "easiest" ones to conquer would be Abu Musa (Iran controls it, the UAE lays claim to it), Sirri, Greater and Lesser Faror (Farvor) (Lesser Faror is uninhabited) and Greater and Lesser Tunb. The distance between them and Iran would make it difficult for Iran to supply the garrisons.

Due to the proximity to mainland Iran, amphibious landings on Qeshm and Kish Islands would be more difficult to pull off with just a 5000-man USMC contingent.

Even if CENTCOM manages to conquer all the islands (Qeshm and Kish included) it would be unrealistic to imagine that the IRGC would stop launching Shaheds at any ship crossing the Hormuz.

Conquering the Iranian islands in the Strait of Hormuz would put any U.S. forces occupying them in a state of siege as they would be under a constant threat of drone attacks from mainland Iran. Supplying the garrisons would be difficult with the aircrafts or ships carrying the supplies becoming a major target for the IRGC to strike.

A Shahed-136 drone has an operational range of ~2.500 km (1.600 miles). Shahed-131 has an operational range of 900 km (559 miles). The Shahed 149 Gaza has a combat range of 2.500 km (1.600 miles),

Amphibious landings on the islands of the Hormuz Strait are pointless and a waste of lives and resources. Even with their loss, Iran will retain the ability and capacity to launch drones at any ship crossing the Hormuz without its consent.

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