That was a great article. I mean this war has demonstrated an incredible amount of utter ineptitude within the Trump administration. It is not like someone dropped the ball, it is like everyone did. I mean it is a rolling train wreck. Where was the Intel?
Yes, there is a disaffected secular elite in Tehran and a handful of other cities that genuinely yearns for a liberal, westward-facing Iran. Their courage, demonstrated in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests of 2022 and again in the January 2026 uprising, is real and admirable. Their numbers, relative to the country’s vast rural and conservative population, are small. The distance between their social media posts and the political center of gravity in a deeply religious, Shia-majority nation is enormous.
And when we bomb Iran, who do we hurt? The very people were are fantasizing that are going to take over the government of Iran. Imagine France, sure Patriots, we will help. We will sit outside Boston Harbor and blow the city to smithereens. Hope that helps. We are going to bomb their power plants. Because hell, no one needs power more than some religious nutcase, ask the Amish.
I know Trump is bored of the war now, but seriously, how do we extract ourselves? The Straits of Hormuz are closed? Damn, someone needs to tell that to India and Pakistan, their tankers are moving.
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