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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Trump is more of a dummy that Bush.
And Hegseth is a menace.
“Lawmakers in both parties are raising alarms about the abrupt ouster of Navy Secretary John Phelan, with some Republicans questioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership and Democrats warning of mounting chaos inside the Pentagon.
Phelan’s sudden departure came without explanation amid broader Pentagon infighting and shake-ups during the active conflict with Iran. It left lawmakers scrambling for answers about the direction of Navy leadership.
The upheaval could be a major point of tension for Hegseth when he appears before the House Armed Services Committee next week. He was already set to face questions over the removal of the Army’s long-serving and well-respected chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, among other senior officers.”
The Navy went full-on DEI and PC 10-15 years ago. The entire fleet of admirals should be shoved out to pasture, and most of their immediate subordinates, too.
That would be a start.
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