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Posted on 04/26/2026 10:25:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Trump isn’t negotiating with Iran—he’s dismantling its regime piece by piece, leaving a hollow state with nothing left but bluster and collapse.
A famous saying of Anton Chekhov’s has been making the rounds. “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall,” Chekhov advised, “in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
I wonder if the thugs and theocrats who have been plundering Iran for the last 47 years have read Chekhov. If so, I conclude that they are slow learners. In January, the Iranian authorities slaughtered more than 40,000 protesters—Iranian citizens, mind you, who were fed up with the oppressive death cult that has been oppressing Iran since the dour clown Ayatollah Khomeini waddled off that plane from Paris in Tehran in 1979. Over the course of about a month this past winter, the US assembled a huge military presence in the waters around Iran: two aircraft carrier strike groups and innumerable air assets.
Many observers thought the display was all for show. Notwithstanding Operation Midnight Hammer last summer, an astonishing precision strike that destroyed Iran’s chief nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, many commentators decided that President Trump was too risk-averse to mount a frontal assault on Iran. “TACO”—Trump Always Chickens Out—was the acronym of the moment.
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Absent finishing the job (he may, or may not), TACO would be appropriate.
The stated goals at the onset were:
- Destruction or capture all the U-235
- Destruction of Iran’s ability to project power outside its own borders
Both of those goals can be achieved if there is the will to do so.
Interesting. Some pundits say we should take over Kharg Island and control the crude output. We’re doing it now with no boots on the ground. When the storage facilities are full that’s when the country’s problems come to a head. In the meantime their tankers in the open sea can fill our storage facilities. Compensation, if any can be negotiated if the Chicoms already paid for it.
I’ve read Chekhov. Trump is no Chekhov.
I’ve read Sun Tzu too. He said “There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.” That goes for Iran and the US.
No more ayatollahs, mullahs, or islamic regime thugs!
Freedom and Orthodox Christianity for the people of Iran!
Is 57 days “prolonged”?
My favorite Russian author is Tolstoyevsky, and his novel Dr. Trivago.
Chekhov is half right. The rifle has to be fired at some point, but it doesn’t have to be early in the event. Once you fire it, it either works or you have to end it all with an atom bomb, so you shouldn’t fire it until you can be reasonably sure it will kill the target.
More like THAC0: “Trump Has Armor Class 0!”
IYKYK
Prolonged in this context connotes more than just time. Spending tens of billions of dollars in 57 days and requesting a trillion more down the road plays into the equation of “prolonged”.
And how does that compare to the 47 years of blood and treasure we’ve lost to them so far, and the cost of a glowing NYC?
“An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which someone tries to persuade you to accept a claim or take an action by frightening you about the consequences of not doing so. It relies on emotion rather than logic or evidence.” -Copilot AI
What part of “Death to America” escapes you?
And the 47 years of attacks and thousands of dead Americans … is that figmentary too?
47 years of constantly taking hits and being blackmailed is definitely prolonged.
“A famous saying of Anton Chekhov’s has been making the rounds. “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall,” Chekhov advised, “in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.””
As has been proven, the mere presence of a firearm can be sufficient to accomplish it’s purpose. It need not always be fired.
You’ve asked me 4 questions in this thread and ignored my replies. Just on to the next question. Along with the basic fallacies, this doesn’t appear to be a good faith debate.
It would be great for President Trump & his admin to expend his energies domestically, including:
- the completion of his ballroom (which he won’t even be able to enjoy by the time it’s finished, but will serve future administrations)
- reforming the Secret Service, the FBI etc...
- restoring national infrastructure
- cutting and/or making more efficient bloated government programs
- working on a GOP overhaul of healthcare
- continued reform of immigration, stricter guidelines and oversight for citizenship
- holding state and local officials especially of homeless sanctuaries accountable for use of federal funds
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