“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr. Trump said, telling CNN it was unclear who was now leading Iran.
“We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,” he said.
What’s your actual fucking goal? I don’t get what they intend to hit here. They’re making it actually impossible for Iran to do the thing they want.
If you go by Sun Tzu he has done literally everything wrong.
If you want your enemy to acquiesce you give them an out, but instead they’re pushing them against a wall, which only strengthens your enemies resolve since there’s no other option.
That’s why Obama’s nuclear deal was working. But these apes in the Trump admin don’t understand, they only understand “bug smash” levels of reasoning.
I did like when he said they were so “successful” at trying to force regime change they killed every option they felt was agreeable. Great, you’ve successfully started a forever war instead of the quick regime change you wanted. Success!
I'm going to speculate that this gets a lot worse.
So far Iran had basically indiscriminately fired missiles at everyone, including France, Germany, and Britain.
That's going to end up with NATO Article 1 shenanigans and we're all going to get dragged into.
Meanwhile the Iranian Guard is like a headless chicken, so that's great, and a country with a network of international terrorists forced into assymetric warfare is probably going to result in a lot of terror attacks that get met with increasingly distopian solutions in the west.
Oh, and there's no actual mechanism for meaningful regine change, just an interior group of thousands who will start infighting when they get desperate, and anyone claiming per getting bombed...
So what's the US exit strategy here, now that they've kicked the hornet's nest and Iran is dragging everyone in (against them).
I won't support my country sending troops for 20 years like Afghanistan again. That was a massive waste.
Speaking of, Afghanistan and Pakistan's war is just going to make this more complex and fluid, potentially dragging India into this mess too.
Those are some strong pigments for water colour