Trump Declares Iran War Over
But World War III continues
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There’s a lot of confusion over whether Donald Trump’s statement that “the war is quote very complete
” signals an end to the war in Iran. The reason why is obvious: the attacks persist, with the U.S. military pinballing between the ever-changing objectives of the day, the hour, the moment.
Defense sources tell me that the military is able to operate so frictionlessly because of technological advances made and experiences gained over the last 25 years. Aircraft, weapons and capabilities in space and cyberspace have evolved, some over decades, to a level of Instacart delivery. As a result, the administration can change missions — destroy the internal security apparatus, eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, regime change, missile and drone defense, destroy the industry behind all of that, sink the navy, unseat the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, kill the next leader — and the military can keep up.
Hitting targets is what they do, and because they have become so good at it, they can do it pretty much anytime and anywhere. Some call that endless war, others perpetual war. I prefer to call it what it is: World War III, a state of modern-day war that doesn’t necessarily involve armies slugging it out on the ground, nor even a finish line. World War III is unbound by time and increasingly even borders, with at least 18 different countries directly involved in the Iran war, by my count.
18!
So when President Trump said yesterday that “the war is quote very complete,
” he is referring to killing Khamenei and the other objectives they’ve so far accomplished. This version of the Iran War as an example of the global World War III does not mean fighting to the last Iranian drone or missile because there is no beginning and no end. Donald Trump’s version of an arbitrarily defined “end” hopes to settle the stock market and stabilize the price of oil and not upset the midterms. The latest objectives can be pursued at the Pentagon’s leisure. The hope is that the media in the US and the West move on to treating Iran like it treats Syria, Yemen, or Somalia, not in paying attention to the blow-by-blow, but in reporting on page 18 that another strike occurred today. Operation Epic Fizzle.
“We could call it a tremendous success right now
,” Trump said at his press conference. “Or we could go further. And we're going to go further.
”
Their version of going further is adding more orders to the Instacart: disabling Iran’s propaganda and cyber capabilities, or more visibly, using the Navy to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
“If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Homus, they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they have been hit thus far
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I declared today Saturday, fuck it at this point
The Israelis have a name for it: Mowing the Grass. They've been doing it for more than a decade now (reported on page 18 if anyone noticed) but the primary turf for Israel was merely Gaza, which is 1/10th the size of Rhode Island -- and even there Hamas springs back to life no matter how severe the cut. Now the US and Israel fantasize perpetually "mowing the grass" throughout the entire Muslim Middle East, a land mass roughly equivalent to the US itself and home to 6% of the world's population, none of whom want to be ruled by Zionists and Christians, or the West's lousiest gangsters (they have their own people for that.)..
It's not going to work and trying to make it work risks destroying all of the West along with all of the Middle East.