1st time I’ve witnessed him use it with such frustration & anger. He’s clearly pissed off more at Israel than Iran.
He doesn’t realize the value of deploying overwhelming force. IRN has nearly 40 years of non-retaliation from nations it attacks directly and via its proxies. They consider all those attacks to be a mountain of credibility and authority of their will. Seriously, that’s how they think. It is their privileged and right to attack at will.
Besides a half dozen B-2s Trump should have deployed a few squadrons of B-52s and lots of ordinance. Then just started bombing regime targets. ISR doesn’t have the heavy lift capacity of B-52s. Bomb them until they’re begging to return to the bargaining table. Like Nixon’s Linebacker II campaign in Dec. ‘72. Hanoi for the first time experienced strategic bombing and rushed back to the bargaining table in Paris.
KGB-ceasefires are always broken. They’re just a ploy to get YOU to stop bombing.
Now Trump is playing the fool telling ISR not to bomb in retaliation.