Trump talked about the people overthrowing the regime as he started the war. “”All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told The Washington Post just hours after those first strikes.” “When Trump announced the strikes early on a Saturday morning, he called it the “single greatest chance” for the Iranian people to take back their country.” “He would echo those calls a few days later, calling on “Iranian patriots” to seize this moment. “America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we’ll be there to help,” he said on March 1.” Netanyahu also called on the Iranian people to rise up.
“But as the war continued into the third and fourth week, Trump has spoken less and less about the protesters and has made no recent calls for protesters to overthrow the government.”
The US military is not ready for drone warfare. Iran will post videos of Americans’ faces before being exploded by drones. Iran has been training in FPV drone warfare and gets advice from Russia who has been fighting in an FPV drone war.
The US is already taking equipment and personnel losses from drones. The US has mostly abandoned bases near Iran because it can’t defend them. If the US goes in close, they will be swarmed.
Germany, Japan, and Iran are great societies. But, after Germany and Japan were taken over by barbaric regimes, bringing them back into the civilized world required burning those countries to the ground. The same might be required for Iran.
US bases in Iraq are getting hit by FPV drones. At least a radar and helicopter have been destroyed. The US does not seem prepared for this advancement in warfare. If the US sends ground troops to Iran, a lot of them will be killed by FPV drones. These are short range, cheap drones, that can be used as suicide drones or to drop explosives.
The Ukraine-Russia war has shown that this is a new factor in warfare, and the US doesn’t seem to have adapted fast enough.
America’s rolling thunder of destroying things from the air is not convincing the Iranian regime to budge or the Iranian people to rise up.
The new Syrian government has allowed and committed murders of multiple ethnic minorities. Syria seems to have replaced one authoritarian state with another. The Kurds were crushed by the government after Trump abandoned them.