B-2s would certainly be the plane used to strike—Gulf countries won't give permission for US to use its bases offensively (they didn't in 2025). B-2 at 15,000m is inaudible and won't be detected by radar pre-strike. Their weapon capacity is enough for an overwhelming in-out strike at no risk to US.

Massive same-time strikes on IRGC and especially Basij bases and staging points. Tharallah Headquarters (nerve center for protest suppression), Imam Ali battalion HQs (elite anti-riot unit), Miland Radio Tower (where the Internet kill switch is) & IRGC Electronic Warfare units (Starlink suppressors)

For context I'm a white person with a Rust Belt background and experience with people from both sides of US politics.

I agree this is one reason why. Recession-caused unemployment & drug abuse alongside social media and cable news channel polarization drove people to hopelessness that they filled with political radicalism. US geographical scattering and falling union/church membership yielded further alienation.

American real median personal income increased substantially in the 1980s and the 1990s. And it increased in the 2000s. As for wages, they stagnated from 1971 to 1995, but grew at the same time NAFTA and China trade took off.

The timing doesn't add up. People feel worse off, but their wages aren't.

Russia, the...9th most populous country in the world (just behind Bangladesh) with a GDP one quarter that of America and far lower than that of India.