>When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran’s elite military forces — including hardened officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who have held substantial influence and profited from the existing regime — would simply turn over their weapons to the Iranian populace.
>“They would really surrender to the people, if you think about it,” he said.
>It was those same security forces — in particular, the Basij, which organizes local militia — that opened fire on street protesters in January and killed thousands.
>Then he offered a very different model of what the transition of power in Iran might look like, referring repeatedly to his experience in Venezuela after he ordered a Delta Force team to seize Mr. Maduro. “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Mr. Trump said.
>His answer implied that what worked in Venezuela would work in Iran, a nation with about three times the population and a military and clerical leadership that has ruled with increasing repression since the 1979 revolution. Over the past several weeks, Mr. Trump has repeatedly brought up Venezuela as the model of a successful operation and hoped to replicate aspects of it in Iran, identifying leadership that would be more cooperative and friendly to the United States.
>But he has been told by his advisers that the vast differences in cultures and history made it virtually impossible to apply the strategy used in Venezuela — in which the existing government was kept in place, after it agreed to take instructions from Washington — and try to replicate it in Tehran. Nonetheless, Mr. Trump appears enamored of using a Venezuela-like model in Iran.
Oh my god, what a fucking moron
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Man, a lot of this is still vague as hell…..It seems like his strategy is to keep bombing shit and hoping good things happen.
This war might just be the most unpopular in the past century for Americans. Virtually, only evangelicals are enthused about this and possibly MBS/Netanyahu.
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>When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran’s elite military forces — including hardened officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who have held substantial influence and profited from the existing regime — would simply turn over their weapons to the Iranian populace.
>“They would really surrender to the people, if you think about it,” he said.
>It was those same security forces — in particular, the Basij, which organizes local militia — that opened fire on street protesters in January and killed thousands.
>Then he offered a very different model of what the transition of power in Iran might look like, referring repeatedly to his experience in Venezuela after he ordered a Delta Force team to seize Mr. Maduro. “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Mr. Trump said.
>His answer implied that what worked in Venezuela would work in Iran, a nation with about three times the population and a military and clerical leadership that has ruled with increasing repression since the 1979 revolution. Over the past several weeks, Mr. Trump has repeatedly brought up Venezuela as the model of a successful operation and hoped to replicate aspects of it in Iran, identifying leadership that would be more cooperative and friendly to the United States.
>But he has been told by his advisers that the vast differences in cultures and history made it virtually impossible to apply the strategy used in Venezuela — in which the existing government was kept in place, after it agreed to take instructions from Washington — and try to replicate it in Tehran. Nonetheless, Mr. Trump appears enamored of using a Venezuela-like model in Iran.
Oh my god, what a fucking moron
Man, a lot of this is still vague as hell…..It seems like his strategy is to keep bombing shit and hoping good things happen.
This war might just be the most unpopular in the past century for Americans. Virtually, only evangelicals are enthused about this and possibly MBS/Netanyahu.
