I should check to see what the Las Vegas odds are for Starmer holding office through the end of this year.
Nicely written summary of big events.
US and IDF and other gulf states oughta’ get enough weaponry into the hands of Iranian patriots and Kurds to effect a severe purge of the mullahs. I am supposing that the current lull in the action is to assure that the final purge of the mullahs is being mapped out to eliminate any chance for the mullahs to massacre the opposition before they, themselves, are captured, and executed.
Wouldn’t be surprised if undercover IDF forces are “on the ground” in Iran already.
Whoa....
“Failed regimes are faltering while political and military reality is asserting itself with unmistakable force.”
Goodness, win one battle that doesn’t stop it, and credit for success is thrown around like a baseball.
This “victory” they are mistakenly claiming is just a bump in the road for the islamists. One they have had to step over before and have been doing since the middle 300’s.
They are terrorists. That’s what they do. They do it over anything else up to the point of death which they welcome. They even speed up that welcoming wearing suicide vests to do their work.
So we got them to consider backing down right now. We got the same thing for this type of terrorist in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a number of other countries in the middle east.
isis is still very active especially in Syria and Afghanistan. The taliban has regrouped and is thriving in Afghanistan after regrowing in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda has “subcontracted” out with new names like The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Algeria that was replaced by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which then rebranded as al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria. Or the AQAP, based in Yemen.
Groups supported by Iran have repeatedly survived territorial defeats or political setbacks, often rebranding to remain involved in local politics. Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH): Created in 2006 to fight the U.S. presence in Iraq, was later rebranded as a “nationalist” resistance movement to fight ISIS, maintaining its influence under the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is an umbrella group of militias that became highly active in 2024, operating around the Syria-Jordan border after previous incarnations were dismantled.
Reasons they can return, three basic ones:
The core belief systems of these groups persist even after territory is lost.
They regain power in areas where central government control is weak or following the withdrawal of foreign forces.
The forming of detention camps which hold thousands of former fighters and family members, such as Al-Hol in Syria, serve as fertile ground for recruitment.
The war with islamist terrorist groups will never end until every one is gone. And that will never happen as they have been accepted as a group in most countries in the world to include the US. The only difference here is that they either operate steathy or are allowed a voice in our politics. And they lie.
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It’s time that the Trump Administration should realize that the only way to secure a “Deal” with Iran is to destroy the IRGC. Together with Israel they need to make that Objective number one before they go any further.
Congrats to Vivek on his outstanding primary win in Ohio. 85% votes and every county in state? That is amazing win.
Reform’s victory could have been much bigger, but they ran a lot of foreign nationals most of which got smoked. Native Reform candidates won big, foreign Reform lost big.
Minority pandering doesn’t work in Britain either.
“This is modern military strategy “
1) Fight million dollar missiles with thousand dollar drones. When one side runs out of missiles, the other side can still produce drones in 24 hours.
2) China sucks the US into the next Iran side non-war. The US concentrates all its forces on that “next Iran” and expends all its ammunition on that “nest Iran”. China can then take Taiwan with few US forces available to worry about.
“Then there is Iran.”
There’s no putting lipstick on that pig. It’s been and continues to be a disaster. The worst geopolitical setback for the US since Jimmy Carter. Well Trump was warned against it by all of his advisors (except Hegseth who was for it) but chose to listen to Netanyahu who told him we could achieve regime change in a matter of weeks.