I understand there is politics involved: democrats here at home making threats (which encourages Iran to resist further), pressure from other countries, but if I were Trump, I would be doing this:
- Take the shortest path to doing the maximum damage to Iran in the shortest time, crippling them.
- *Give them a 24 hour ultimatum: surrender totally and turn over all leaders responsible for murdering 45,000 people or else.
- If they do not capitulated by the deadline, take out their electric grid, water system, blow up damns, take out bridges and railroads.
- Call them up and give them the same 24 hour ultimatum: surrender, etc., by the deadline or next we take out Kharg Island and blow up all their oil wells and much more.
- *And between steps 1 and 2, contact other major countries saying that if they don't want to see Iran wiped off the map, they better get down there and lend aid into stopping Iran and opening the Strait otherwise, we will do it our way.
- And if Step 4 didn't work, next up, start dropping MOABS on Tehran, etc., leveling cities.
We are dealing with ghoulish, brutal savages. You might be too young to much remember the Iraqi War with GW Bush--- the stories of the things Saddam Hussein and his two sons used to do--- his two sons Uday and Qusay were famous for literally taking people and torturing them, and doing unspeakable, savage, inhuman things to people before killing them all the while enjoying their absolute power over others. Killing people by torture was a regular fixture at their parties.
This is who we are dealing with. Pure evil.
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