They can't commit to a major operation. Having started this war secretly and illegally and lied about its progress at every turn, they have no political legitimacy to commit. It isn't an option.
They have been returning this government since 2009.
I don't think the Israelis have internalized that this is likely the last US president who supports them.
I'd be more inclined to take them at their word if they hadn't waited for all the protesters to be murdered before the sneak attack.
"Why didn't the school girls rush the supreme leader?"
--Megan McArdle
"It's not my fault for bombing you. It's your fault for making me bomb you."
I don't think the Israelis are convinced at all that their bombing will cause a revolution. I think they're saying this to absolve themselves of responsibility for the damage they're doing.
Brendan Carr really needs a shave.
Oh no. Anyway.
Dad works hard for his money. If he wants to spend his paycheck getting blackout drunk rather than paying child support, that's his business.
If Mom can't manage the household finances well enough to afford steak every night, she's a stupid bitch.
The dumbest part of all this Democratic tax slopulism is that it won't work at all. Republicans are allowed to run 6, 7, 8+ point deficits. Democrats are not. This will get attacked as budget busting tax and spend liberalism.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
If I were the United States Navy right now, I would scuttle my entire fleet out of shame.
That's only half its production at best, and I suspect it will not stay 100% operational.
So how can this end except by regime change in Iran or a physical retreat from the Gulf by US forces?
It is literally not possible for him to negotiate peace terms, because no one will believe him, and properly so. Someone else will have to provide assurances that he will fulfill his terms. But no other power can restrain the United States.
The problem with the president of the United States breaking multiple treaties, including his own, repeatedly lying to just about every country on Earth, and holding peace talks as a perfidious ruse to murder other heads of state, means any promises he makes, oral or written, are worthless.
The Thirty Years War was a regional war that originated in sectarian conflict but ultimately drew in all the great powers. It devastated the region and lasted, well, 30 years.
"Every country with a large Shia population explodes" was also foreseeable.
The C-RAM got RAMed.
Must be the C-RAM 114 model.
The C-RAM got hit and blew itself up.
I am trying to think of any security assurances anyone could offer Iran as part of a negotiated cease fire, and I can't think of anything except the GCC+Iraq canceling US basing rights and closing the gulf to foreign warships.
They are all going to prison for bribery.
Or they don't go to prison.
That is the choice.
Yep. He's just another Jew now.
Perhaps it is a bad idea to give weak and dependent allies run by apocalyptic racists a blank check to start general wars.
This is the chance it happens. The chance that he orders it is higher.
But they bribed all the right guys!
I can't imagine bombing water is a game the Gulf Arabs want us to play.
I don't think there is going to be a 100% Shahed interception rate for attacks on Gulf coastal targets unless the USN sends a lot of ships through the strait.
