>”Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.”
My god
OmNomSandvich on
> kill their leadership
> they use the missile, drone, and sea mining arsenal they’ve bragged about for literal decades against you
> WHY DOES THE ENEMY GET A VOTE??????
gringledoom on
“How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War”
Because neither Trump nor anyone in his inner circle understands that other people have agency, which is why it catches them by surprise every single time?
Adminisnotadmin on
He really thought the world was Venezuela or a video game: Take out the leader and they give in. They just … didn’t plan for a resistance. They never do. They literally forgot about the Houthis stopping shipping with just constant attacks from the shoreline.
What a fucking nightmare.
Al_787 on
I think the bigger mistake is that they went in expecting something like a South American dictatorship, where everything’s running on palm-greasing and rent-seeking.
It’s still kinda too early to tell, but it’s looking increasingly closer to Nazi Germany instead. Not in capabilities, but in the comprehensive way that the IRGC ranks are fully brainwashed with Shia-jihadists ideology, martyrdom and what not. Sure the regime’s not popular, probably so was the Nazis. But you can’t make a regime collapse if the monopoly armed forces on the ground still have near-total determination to defend it.
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>”Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.”
My god
> kill their leadership
> they use the missile, drone, and sea mining arsenal they’ve bragged about for literal decades against you
> WHY DOES THE ENEMY GET A VOTE??????
“How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War”
Because neither Trump nor anyone in his inner circle understands that other people have agency, which is why it catches them by surprise every single time?
He really thought the world was Venezuela or a video game: Take out the leader and they give in. They just … didn’t plan for a resistance. They never do. They literally forgot about the Houthis stopping shipping with just constant attacks from the shoreline.
What a fucking nightmare.
I think the bigger mistake is that they went in expecting something like a South American dictatorship, where everything’s running on palm-greasing and rent-seeking.
It’s still kinda too early to tell, but it’s looking increasingly closer to Nazi Germany instead. Not in capabilities, but in the comprehensive way that the IRGC ranks are fully brainwashed with Shia-jihadists ideology, martyrdom and what not. Sure the regime’s not popular, probably so was the Nazis. But you can’t make a regime collapse if the monopoly armed forces on the ground still have near-total determination to defend it.