Don’t Listen to Idiots About the Iran War
You could be forgiven for wondering who and what to believe when you go on social media or look at the regime media, or listen to politicians, and you’re bombarded with all sorts of information, opinions, and assertions about the Iran War, but take heart. There’s an easy way to sift through it all to separate the wheat of valuable insights from the chaff of absolute stupidity. If somebody’s telling you that we are losing this war, he’s an idiot, or a liar, or both, and you should ignore everything he says.
Right up front, let’s be clear about something. The American and Israeli campaign against the mullahs is an unparalleled achievement in the military art, a victory so sweeping and complete that it defies any precedent. Within a couple of days, we decapitated their leadership, and not just at the neck – we’ve made the cut down around their colons. The High Poobah they started with got smoked faster than a fat doobie at Snoop Dogg‘s birthday party. Their alleged leader du jour – a guy who once had to go to England because he couldn’t make his little mullah stand at attention – is probably dead. But it’s not only impotence in the barnyard with these guys; it’s impotence on the battlefield as well. We removed their allegedly advanced integrated air defense system. We converted their surface fleet to an all-submarine navy. We’ve smashed their ability to project combat power, degrading their ballistic missile and drone forces from a fearsome fusillade to a pathetic trickle. We dominate every sphere of the battlespace, but one – air, sea, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum. The only one we don’t dominate (yet) is the ground. Still, with the Israelis taking out squad-size units of whatever the Farsi word for Gestapo is using exploding drones, and the people beginning to take to the streets, it’s only a matter of time before the mullahs lose control of the dirt, too.
It’s a victory so complete that it increases the potential to doubt it because the achievement is so incomprehensible. Sure, they fired some missiles and drones. Yeah, the enemy gets a say. Of course, they tried to close the Straits of Hormuz, but that won’t last. Tactically, they can’t do anything to us that impacts our combat power. Our casualties in men and material are minimal. In fact, about half of our casualties are from accidents. The other half are from a lucky hit. Strategically, they’ve completely blown it. Their goal was to get the surrounding states to force America and Israel to stop by attacking Iran’s neighbors. Instead, this just ticks off the neighbors, and now they’re helping us. Great job, guys! Tired of all the winning yet?
As Clausewitz pointed out, war is simply politics with different means. The end result here will be a non-nuclear-capable Iran without a ballistic missile capability, but let’s understand that that’s not the real objective. Those are collateral benefits that come from the political effect that this war is meant to achieve. Regime change gets a bad name from stupid people who don’t know history. A significant number of wars throughout history have had the specific purpose of regime change. The Romans used to march into barbarian nations specifically to change their regimes into ones that would be allied and pay tribute. We don’t need Iran as our ally or a tributary; we just need an Iran that’s not run by pagan apocalyptic psychos who hate Jews and Americans nearly as much as Candace Owens, Ilhan Omar, and Medhi Hasan do.
In support of a garbage agenda to salvage defeat from the jaws of victory – because the only thing these people hate more than the idea of America winning a war against Third World semi-humans is an America led by Donald Trump winning a war against Third World semi-humans – these influencers are trying to talk you into thinking we’ve lost. That’s where the aforementioned stupid people test comes in. If they tell you we’re losing, they’re stupid.
Now, some are just Internet randos grasping at clicks or are the product of Macedonian bot farms. But some of these people saying stupid things have what one might assume are quality credentials. One way to evaluate their credentials is to check whether someone is a college professor. If he is, he’s presumptively wrong about everything. The same goes for members of think tanks with names like The Center for Foreign Policy Policies, or any organization whose name contains the word “Democracy,” “Peace,” or “Future.” These are inevitably people who have been part of the foreign policy establishment for the last several decades and who have aggregated a collection of spectacular successes as barren as the Gobi Desert. They have been wrong about everything forever, but you have to hand it to them. They’re consistent.
And then there are the Democrats who come out of classified briefings insisting that Donald Trump has absolutely no idea what’s going on, that the military campaign is a total failure, and that their erectile dysfunction is a direct result of Bibi Netanyahu and the Jews. OK, maybe that’s exaggerating it a little bit – they do sometimes give our military a little bit of credit, though it’s painful for them to do so, and they’re much more comfortable being mad that soldiers occasionally get to eat rubbery steak and third-tier lobster.
As for the regime media reporters who purport to cover the military campaign, they provide exactly the kind of deep, probing, informed commentary that you would expect from pick-me twenty-somethings named Ashleigh who double-majored in journalism and gender studies at the University of College, and whose entire résumé consists of having been born and then writing for the Wall Street Journal. You probably shouldn’t get your tactical assessments from people who you need to explain to that the Navy is the one with boats.
As for the AI slop out there, with poorly rendered five-second clips of Tel Aviv being annihilated, America’s Air Force being wiped out, and victorious Iranians raising the mullah’s flag over the White House – maybe they just used a real clip from the Obama administration – it’s less for you than for them and their friends. You’ve got to understand the humiliation they’re going through. Once again, little tiny Israel and big mean America have beaten the living snot out of their pals. These Third World goofs have demonstrated their utter cowardice and incompetence, failing on every level at to competently perform even the most basic military tasks. They’re hoping that you’re just as stupid as their own people are, and, sadly, we have seen that some of our people are just as stupid as their people are. Luckily, most people are not stupid.
There’s a never-ending cycle of fringie allegedly based America First people who are nothing of the sort complaining that this forever war – it’s not a forever war if you’re ending it in victory – is going to split the MAGA coalition in two. Perhaps that might mean splitting off the 5% who eat paste and lick windows from the 95% who are patriots, but it demonstrates an absolute misunderstanding of the movement to think that any substantial number of Donald Trump’s supporters, much less Donald Trump himself, are going to line up against the red, white, and blue and in favor of the goat-molesting butchers who have been murdering Americans throughout the nearly 50 years since Jimmy Carter helped them to take power. They can cry about how “I’m not going to fight for Israel!” all they want, but we know they’re not ever going to fight for anything except for a piece of that sweet, sweet grifter pie.
Nor are they going to convince us that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the entire United States military are a bunch of incompetents who are somehow covering up the utter disaster that is this war. They throw everything against the wall, but apparently, it’s made of Teflon because nothing sticks. They tried getting mad because the troops were being too well-fed. Then they got mad because we had casualties. Then they got mad when our military leaders pointed out that you take casualties in a war. Then they went through a hilarious journalistic journey of discovery regarding the Straits of Hormuz, which these budding geographers had never heard of before last Tuesday:
It never occurred to Trump and the Pentagon that the Iranians might move to shut down the Straits of Hormuz, even though we’ve previously fought with the Iranians when they tried to shut down the Straits of Hormuz, have done literally dozens of major exercises wargaming Iranian options to shut down the Straits of Hormuz, and have moved significant military power into the theater to prevent the Iranians from shutting down the Straits of Hormuz.
Then how about Trump was warned about the risk of the Iranians trying to shut down the Straits of Hormuz yet decided to finish this war despite knowing the risk, although we previously argued that he didn’t know about the risk, and even though the most basic part of military leadership is analyzing the potential risks of each course of action, weighing the potential benefits against the potential costs, and developing strategies to mitigate said risks?
Well, then, the Iranians not actually shutting down the Straits of Hormuz is actually a cunning plan to sucker in the Americans and the Israelis somehow.
Okay, then, how about you’re all Islamophobes, even though we’ve had multiple Muslims specifically attacking Americans while citing their Muslim beliefs as the cause of their attacks on Americans?
It is all so tiresome.
The bottom line is that we’re winning. We’re beating them militarily, with the military campaign the primary means of achieving the ultimate objective of political change, which will reset not only the Middle East but the entire world. We’re already seeing the Cuban communist government watching what’s happening on the other side of the world and doing that thing where they take their finger, pull out their collar, and swallow hard. As for the Chinese, if we have a friendly government in Iran, we have our hands on the spigot of China’s oil, which drastically limits their strategic options. Xi can’t invade Taiwan without gas.
Anybody who’s telling you we’re losing is either an idiot or a liar. The only determination you need to make is which one, or both.
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