It’s not clear that the administration has a real strategic plan here.
It’s not clear that the administration has a real strategic plan here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqOeWpNohM
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It’s not clear that the administration has a real strategic plan here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqOeWpNohM
The US military is awesome, but I’m skeptical it will achieve substantial war aims. Killing a lot of people and destroying a lot of equipment is a means to an end. It means very little if we don’t have a long-term major success. I’m skeptical the US and Israel will get there, but I hope they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiMswJVBI4&t=2s
The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End | Plain English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqxqoW13s8
“Israel’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-strikes-iran-triggered-israel-011506844.html
“An attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused a “limited fire,” according to Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry, and the embassy urged Americans to avoid the compound. It followed an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait that announced Tuesday it had been closed until further notice.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-embassy-saudi-arabia-hit-045619887.html
Hegseth’s speech really did sound like an SNL version of a Hegseth speech.
The administration is claiming multiple goals to this war. Trump telling the Iranian people that this is their chance, and then also saying he is looking for someone to put in charge, shouldn’t give the Iranians confidence to risk their lives and rebel. Although, I’m not sure they are seeing his comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemxoSVj5w0
Some Iranians revel in Khomeini’s death, while others mourn. There doesn’t seem to be a rebellion or a revolution yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnMYwMquPUo
“Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday
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The violence came after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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In addition, 12 people were killed and over 80 wounded in clashes with police in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region when thousands of protesters angered by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran attacked the offices of the U.N. Military Observer Group and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP)”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/least-6-killed-shiites-storm-080203718.html
How the US is striking Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OjOJMLabSw
Could Iran hit US Air and Naval forces?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiv3QkQIYZs