Trump’s Way of War

[Stryder50]

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Won the Battle, But Will He Take Iran?​

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His opposition said he had no point, no agenda, no purpose. He did. He said it on March 1 and March 20. He said he had a multifaceted agenda.

No. 1, he wanted to destroy the ability to launch missiles. He’s pretty close to that. Not completely. But get rid of their missiles, not just the missiles that they launch, but the ability to make them.

No. 2, he said he wanted to destroy their air forces and air defenses so that they would have no air superiority, but the Americans and Israelis have the air supremacy.

When you reach air supremacy, you can use tactical aircraft. That would mean Warthogs at low level, Apaches. You can do anything you want if you have air supremacy. And we do now.

(No. 3)He wanted to destroy additionally the navy. He’s almost done that.

No. 4, he wanted to preclude the ability of Iran not just to launch ballistic missiles, but to make another bomb. He’s bombed all of the nuclear sites that he hit before. He’s bombed the fabrication plants. He’s killed more of the scientists. He’s even attacked a university research area.

So, pretty much, it’ll be very, very hard for them for eight, nine years unless they get a lot of Chinese help and North Korean help, and they come in en masse.

The fifth agenda is a little bit less clear because he never said my reason is to go in there and—he might’ve thought that, he might’ve implied it, but if you look at his written statement and what he said formally, regime change.

And yet we all know that the regime change, whether it be the Venezuela model or a true uprising of the dissatisfied Iranian public to take control of the government and have a constitutional system, whichever the replacement is, it’s preferable to the mullahs.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Won the Battle, But Will He Take Iran?

Three weeks into the conflict with Iran, what are the remaining obstacles? What is Iran's strategy? In part, waiting out Donald Trump.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Won the Battle, But Will He Take Iran?

Three weeks into the conflict with Iran, what are the remaining obstacles? What is Iran's strategy? In part, waiting out Donald Trump.

www.dailysignal.com

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But we are not going to be able to shepherd that in because we’re not going to go in on the ground. All we can do is emasculate the theocracy and then hope that there’s a popular uprising.

And then we have to be very careful because if we’re going to drain the theocracy of their ability to recoup and have money, then you have to go into Kharg Island.

If you go into Kharg Island and grab the oil or attack the oil fields, then you’re hurting the people that supposedly you want to help to take over the government.

At some point, and I don’t know what it is, you don’t know what it is, I don’t think anybody knows where it is, Iran will have no moreviable targets.

The United States will be looking at its arsenals and wanting to make sure that we have enough if China does go into Taiwan because it’s angry that we have begun in Venezuela, kicked it out of Venezuela, kicked it out of Iran, kicked it out of everywhere we could. We have to be very careful.

At some point, the Israelis, the Americans and the Iranians will think it’s not in their interest to continue, and we don’t know when that point is.

For us in the United States, it’s when the economy and the price of gas gets to such a level that it becomes almost impossible, given the hostile media and the propaganda that’s coming from the Left that this is a disaster, that Donald Trump cannot win the midterms. And therefore, the entire MAGA agenda will be inert in the next two and a half years.

If that starts to crystallize, then he will probably say we’ve done enough, and we now turn it over to the Iranian people. Then it’ll be a question, will the Iranians, when there’s not an active war going on and when there’s such damage to the theocracy, will they come out? Especially if we arm them, or we have people in there that can arm them. And will that regime fall in the next four or five months?

If it should do that, that will be to the credit of Donald Trump.

As far as the regime, again, it will do anything, lie, steal, murder, anything to stay in power because it knows it’s on the back of a lion or tiger. If it steps off, they’re all going to be jailed and probably executed for what they’ve done to the Iranian people.

 

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Former IDF Spokesman Predicts What Will Bring Down Iranian Regime​

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The days of the Iranian regime are “numbered,” but it won’t be Israel or the United States that delivers the final blow, according to a former Israel Defense Forces spokesman.

The Iranian regime will fall “not so much because of U.S. and Israeli action, but because of … the crimes that they have perpetrated against the Iranian people,” retired Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, who now serves as a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Daily Signal.

The regime has shown “a complete disregard for their own people that, I think, is the Rubicon that they crossed, and that’s what eventually is going to bring them down,” he said, adding, Iran’s “fate will be decided by the Iranian people.”
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Former IDF Spokesman Predicts What Will Bring Down Iranian Regime

The days of Iran's regime are “numbered,” but the final blow won’t come from Israel or the United States, a former IDF spokesman says.

www.dailysignal.com

 

[Stryder50]

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