Posted on 03/13/2026 5:30:29 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper
For decades, the United States and its allies have been gaming out what a full-scale war against the Islamic Republic of Iran would look like. As recently as 2020, in the immediate aftermath of the airstrike that neutralized Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, mainstream and center-left media outlets summarized the forecasts of American war planners. Their conclusions were sobering.
In a war that the Iranian regime sees as existential, Tehran could be expected to pull out all the stops. “Iran’s vast network of proxies” would be activated. American and European civilians would be targets, as would vulnerable U.S. military positions in Iraq and Syria. “Sleeper cells” would carry out attacks against soft targets in Europe and Latin America. Hezbollah would roar to life in Lebanon, raining missiles down on Israel. Terrorists would target American diplomatic posts as far afield as West Africa and Southeast Asia. Crippling cyberattacks against Western-oriented governmental and commercial interests would cause major financial disruptions. Bombs, mines, missiles, drones, and fast boats would complicate U.S. operations in the Strait of Hormuz, putting all maritime traffic to a halt for the indefinite future.
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Everything has gone right in the Iran battle. The war against Islam is long.
And then surrender. Say, who is this Tehran guy and why is he the spokesman?
And there it is. The National, Neocon Review doing what neocons do. They push war war war. They scream about the need to neutralize Iran and when it happens, they stand athwart and point out the failings and challenges of the war they pushed for.
Well this new Leader of Iran has a valid reason to have a hardon to get back at the United States, killed his Dad, child and no telling who else in his family so he will do everything to get back at us.... I fear this will not end the y way Trump and folks think it will...
And now is perfect time for China to take Taiwan......
Hello, Vlad, I need a favor .
Now is not the perfect time for China to take Taiwan... a week ago would have been better. So, antiUSWarfighter, please explain to me — what stopped them?
Does the waiver apply to California grade gasoline refined by India from Russian oil that is being exported to California?
Pay me now or pay me later. They are mostly defanged other than terrorism.
Everything
China lacks the military capability to assault Taiwan much less maintain a sustained occupation
Anyone who posts an an assessment of a U.S. military campaign in a globalist propaganda rag based on “facts on the ground” is a paid circus clown and should be ignored.
Where are the Saudi, Gulf states, Kuwaiti, and Iraqi Navies keeping the straights of Hormuz open if it’s so valuable to their economies?
Islam needs a reformation.
It may take a few hundred years and a whole lot of defeat on the battlefield.
When they stop wanting to murder us and don’t intend to impose Sharia law on everyone else, they are welcome back into the family of man. Until then, DEFEND WESTERN CIVILIZATION!!!
We are conducting big boy ops in the theater. We don't need amateur hour JV teams getting in our way.
The 4 years of the Incompetent Biden regime was the perfect time…
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