Posted on 03/11/2026 3:52:55 AM PDT by Milagros
The IDF sources noted that tackling Iran's ballistic missile threat was among the military's primary goals in the war.
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The Iranians want to do it themselves, but they need the conditions where they can do it themselves. They are willing to give their lives to get it done.
If this overall plan does not work and the Iranian populace is too scared to make a move, the world will pay a terrible price 10 years down the road when Iran tries again and learns from lessons of this war.
No, Iran must be decimated and the leadership must die out.
Fixed. Israel can help us find and deliver those means to those people and organize them to nix the IRGC and Quds force. Those thugs need to die but not by our boots on the ground. About the only thing I've seen proposed that might require American ground troops is recovering the enriched uranium. That I would support.
They can’t. The IRGC, if they find even a single gun, on one person, the entire street dies then and there and the entire of the person with the gun gets killed.
That’s not a solution for them, unfortunately.
This sounds like cope
I should clarify that the Iranian needs to be weakened further. Once the war is over and the new government is installed, the Iranians can then deal with the remnants themselves, likely.
Struggle has a way of making the right leaders. Think Washington.
This business for the IDF and for the U.S. military, as it grinds on day by day, is unavoidably costly in many different ways.
For this reason, it can’t go on indefinitely.
So, at some point, probably sooner than many if not most are imagining, it will end.
If something, short of a standard land invasion, is missing in this effort, needed to “motivate” the mullahs and IRGC to cut and run, is it not multiple targeted actions by special ops troops?
The world isn’t going to pay a heavy price in 10 years. It’s going to pay a heavy price in the next 2 to 3 months when the US and world economy crashes because of $200 oil due to mining of the strait of hormuz and drone attacks on shipping and pipelines. This MAGA/MIGA adventure will be the biggest geopolitical miscalculation and economic disaster in a generation. Trump, puffed up by the the Venezuela adventure, allowed hubris and groupthink to get us into a situation in which we can all just be spectators now. God help us.
It took over 100,000 U.S. military deaths, 67 Japanese cities systematically firebombed, and two Japanese cities vaporized by nukes to get an unconditional surrender and a regime change in Japan after WWII, and even then the “unconditional surrender” was modified to allow the top criminal to remained in office.
It probably would take something similar (or more) to get a meaningful regime change in Iran.
Aren’t you the optimist.
With due respect, the messaging on the aims of this war has been horrible. At one point they did say regime change was a war aim. This statement sounds like legalistic backtracking from an initial statement that was made out of hubris that never really had a chance of being achieved. Don’t get me wrong - I support the war. But the administration and now it seems Israel have been sending mixed messages since Day One on the war objectives.
I agree.
Read some interesting articles about how they have structured command systems in iran, not sure any of the predicted outcomes are correct but interesting anyhow
Lots of sources if you google : iran decentralized autonomous military leadership
Exactly! regime change was never a goal, but it is a hope.
Kill yourself now.
It may not be the military goal, but it’s definitely the political goal.
“So, at some point, probably sooner than many if not most are imagining, it will end.”
Good. We need to get to the point where we can enact remote damage for a day or so, take care of business on terrorists and get out.
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