JWeinCom said:
Pretty sure Netenyahu sold Trump on the idea it would be a quick thing. And he knew that Trump would be too stubborn to admit defeat. Played like the fucking moron he is.
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Yeah Kent said as much in his resignation letter.
The big problem now is, there is no off ramp
Lawrence Wilkerson: U.S. Strategic Defeat in Iran Will Reshape the World
"Trump, it's no secret now, he wanted and expected a short war. He now seems to be locked in a position of all or nothing that either he can escalate and try to knock out uh America's main rival in the Middle East which is Iran or he risks being expelled from the region, him but the United States military if all these bases will be well destroyed. And the Gulf state nations would begin to grow concerned about the military presence being insecurity instead of a source for security."
"Ground troops are not realistic uh at all. But let me back up just a little bit. Haaretz, the only newspaper I'll read and sometimes I don't even like it because Netanyahu owns all the rest of them virtually. But Haaretz had a really interesting sub headline yesterday. It said to win Iran needs only not to lose. To win BB and Donald need a spectacular victory. That sums it up."
"Do you know that they took out five of the multi-million dollar, two of them were a half billion a piece radars in other countries that have left us blind and we can't replace them. And guess why we can't replace them? Because we can't get the rare earth metals from China in order to replace them. Even if we could build them that fast. So, this has been very very fine-tuned by Iran."
"Regarding those radars, it's gallium I think the rarest mineral they need and apparently China has about 98% of well it's not extracting at least refining. So overall the control is if the US wants to go to war to China, it's going to have to ask China for permission first to and he just denied a a visit or you just cancelled a visit. Picture this will will you? The number one strategic interest we have in a foreign state is China. The last interest we have in a foreign state other than that BB sells us is Iran. and we're canceling a meeting with the man in charge of the first so we can be the advocate for war with the second."
"This is at best a year long conflict with no resolution at the end of that year and all manner of pertabbation of global economies. And I'm not just talking oil. I'm talking fertilizer and food stuff, urea in particular."
Last edited by SvennoJ - on 17 March 2026
