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Posted on 03/08/2026 8:44:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Donald Trump is betting that decisive force—not endless stalemate—can topple regimes, realign alliances, and compress decades of history into weeks.
“There are decades where nothing happens,” Vladimir Lenin is supposed to have said (but didn’t), “and there are weeks where decades happen.” Welcome to the beginning of March, Anno Domini 2026.
One week ago, on February 28, the United States and Israel commenced an attack on Iran. At first, it seemed to be merely a ramped-up continuation of Operation Midnight Hammer, the raid conducted last June when the United States, following up on Israel’s preliminary attacks, destroyed (“completely and totally obliterated”) three key nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. It was an extraordinary operation, in which four B-2 bombers, having flown for 30 hours from the United States, mounted an astonishing precision strike with fourteen 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, together with submarine-fired Tomahawk cruise missiles.
But Midnight Hammer was merely a preliminary salvo compared to Epic Fury, the pulverizing assault that the United States and Israel (under the name “Roaring Lion”) launched last Saturday. The world has not seen anything like this since 1945, when the United States and its allies crushed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Having learned from the aftermath of the Great War that armistice is often but another name for false victory, President Trump adopted as his motto the phrase that definitively ended World War II: “unconditional surrender.”
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I doubt that unconditional surrender can be forced by non-nuclear air power alone.
What I suggest is to have the US Navy impose a hard currency management system for Iranian oil exports.
I liked Gen. Keene’s statement: The only thing we’ll negotiate, is what time of day you want to surrender.
That will last until Election Day when the Republican Party is decimated at the voting booth.
I doubt that unconditional surrender can be forced by non-nuclear air power alone.
Good point. Has not happened since WW2. However, I am not supporting that strategy as it is not survivable.
We’ll leave before that. If not, then yes, we deserve to get decimated at the voting booth.
Since the Korean Conflict, we have let politicians set the Rules of Engagement (ROE) for war. Since that happened, the US has not really won a conflict. Politicians say that they want to stop the killing with their “humane” restrictions on the ROE. Actually, their meddling prolongs the conflict, resulting in more deaths on BOTH sides. War is ugly and messy. Set the ROE to end it as quickly as possible. Let the professionals runs the wars. They know what to do to save American lives. Politicians don’t.
Didn’t happen in World War II either, air power does not force unconditional surrenders.
1. Why would it be any other way, in a country with an elected government?
2. All the more reason why anyone with a brain and a moral compass should stay out of the military.
It didn't in Germany.
It did in Japan.
It depends on what you drop and where you drop it.
You fools do not want the USA & Israel to succeed….you are disgusting!
No sarcasm tag?!
I respectfully disagree. American air power can prevent a modern state from functioning at all. The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which began on March 24, 1999, aimed to stop the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians by Serbian forces. The air campaign ultimately led to the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and the establishment of a UN administration in the region after Serbia agreed to a peace deal on June 10, 1999.
Air power alone led to the total defeat of the Serbs.
Everyone is not a fool except you. Perhaps you need to look at the one in the mirror.
The objections are because we want America to succeed. That is what we voted for.
“Now, a popular game in Iran is sneaking up behind Islamic regime clerics and knocking off their turbans.”
Bwahahaha!!!
We'll see. :)
Unconditional surrender
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Yes, at the end of the WWII, Germany was trying to sue for some armistice or peace on some acceptable terms.
The allies decided, that unconditional surrender is the only way to finish the war.
Eventually, Germany surrendered on May 8 1945.
“ Didn’t happen in World War II either, air power does not force unconditional surrenders.”
Emperor Hirohito has entered the chat.
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There's no other way
Japan surrendered because of the new atomic bomb. Conventional bombing didn’t do it. Strategists of air power believed that conventional bombing could.
I remember a Japanese student talking about how his country had never been conquered and me saying, “Ummm,” and getting the explanation that the end of WWII wasn’t an ordinary situation.
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