The "Ace" of Ace of Spades blog is giving up on the war in Iran. He has been supportive, but not nutso-fanatical like Liiiiiiiiiiiiindseeeeeeeeeeeeey!! or Tel Aviv Levin or Jerusalem Benny.
Ace is giving up mostly because Trump can read the room.
...Trump just doesn't have the Bush-like indifference to public opinion and sheer bullheadedness about continuing an unpopular war. Iran believes that if they just refuse to concede, Trump will eventually be forced, by public pressure, to just declare a (false) victory and go home. Just making more and more extravagant threats isn't changing Iran's posture.
I don't know where this goes from here. I think Trump can afford to just wait Iran out with a long and crippling blockade, but I don't know that Trump feels like he has enough public support for several months of low-intensity warfare.
I've feared from the start that there is just no way to truly win a war without some ground component -- you have to literally blow their heads off and hang them from street-lamps -- and without an armed civilian overthrow, I'm thinking this war ends in a stalemate. Lots of damage inflicted on the mullocracy -- but the mullahs left in place to rebuild....
Yes, Bush was truly a dummy.
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