Very little in the Six Week War - capped off by the Desert Two debacle in Isfahan - could be considered a "tactical success" at all. We got stiff-armed by a well-prepared regional power, ran out of ammo, and the Chinese are once again about to win by doing absolutely nothing.⬇️ Let's actually assess this in a rational manner, working my best guess as to what our objectives actually were during this operation - which is in and of itself a difficult thing to figure out given they seemed to change daily because nobody at the Pentagon was willing to impose any kind of strategic discipline on Trump. So, uh, let's break this down by lines of effort because there were several. Line of Effort 1: Strategic neutralization of Iran as a threat vector to Israel and other US interests and forces in the Middle East OBJ 1.1: Regime change - FAILED. Iranian government as currently constituted ("regime") consolidated power; "Khamenei replaced with Khamenei". No significant anti-regime protests recorded. OBJ 1.2: Secure US/Israeli air supremacy over central Iran - FAILED. Coalition remained dependent on standoff weapons for strikes outside border regions; only apparent attempt to fly massed air sorties into central Iran resulted in lost aircraft and near-disaster. Most Coalition air assets withdrawn to inconvenient bases far from Iran due to missile threat and reliant on extensive tanker support to operate at low sortie rates. OBJ 1.3: Coerce existing regime to align with US strategic interests - FAILED. Iranian hardliners empowered by perceived victory against the United States and Israel; more moderate factions have aligned with hardliners. OBJ 1.4: Isolate Iran from great power support (Russia/China) - FAILED. Russia and China continue to provide substantial economic and military support to Iran. Line of Effort 2: Destruction of the Iranian WMD program OBJ 2.1: Seize Iranian enriched uranium stockpile - FAILED. Attempted SOF raid ended in debacle. OBJ 2.2: Destroy Iranian uranium enrichment capability - FAILED. Iranian enrichment capability is in extremely hardened underground facilities which do not appear to have sustained significant damage from Coalition attacks. OBJ 2.3: Destroy Iranian industrial pipeline to manufacture nuclear warheads - UNKNOWN. Little data exists here outside of raw speculation. Line of Effort 3: Destruction of Iranian means of coercion against Israel and US interests in the Middle East OBJ 3.1: Destroy Iranian missile force - FAILED. Iranian ballistic, cruise, and drone capabilities very much intact. OBJ 3.2: Destroy Iranian aerial forces - FAILED. Iranian tactical aviation intact; transport and logistics aircraft destroyed on the ground by Coalition forces were of limited tactical utility. OBJ 3.3: Destroy Iranian naval forces - FAILED. IRGCN mosquito fleet currently the dominant naval power in the Persian Gulf; naval balance of power in the key Persian Gulf and Hormuz region has shifted AGAINST the United States and allies. OBJ 3.4: Destroy Iranian regional proxies - FAILED. Iranian regional proxies in Iraq and Lebanon showed resilience well beyond that expected by analysts. OBJ 3.5: Prevent capture of Coalition aircrew by Iran - QUALIFIED SUCCESS. Thanks to strategically ruinous expenditures of standoff weapons, exposure of Coalition aircraft to Iranian air defenses was minimized, preventing Iran from taking POWs. Line of Effort 4: Protect Israel, friendly Gulf Arab regimes, US military forces, and broader US interests from Iranian retaliation OBJ 4.1: Secure oil shipment through Strait of Hormuz - FAILED. Iran secured control of the Strait of Hormuz and continues to export oil despite attempted blockade. OBJ 4.2: Disrupt Iranian retaliatory strikes - FAILED. Coalition strikes did little to nothing to disrupt Iranian missile and drone launches. OBJ 4.3: Degrade Iranian retaliatory strikes on Coalition military assets in theater - FAILED. US forces withdrew to bases at operational standoff from Iran rather than contest positions inside SRBM range, ceding influence over the strategically critical Persian Gulf to Iran rather than risk friendly casualties. Iranian drones and MRBMs caused painful if not decisive losses to Coalition assets throughout the war. OBJ 4.4: Prevent Iranian counter-value coercion against friendly Gulf Arab regimes - FAILED. Iran struck countervalue targets in the Arab states at will and continues to hold them at great risk; Qatar (previously home to a massive US presence) appears to have given Iran a massive tributary payment rather than face further attacks. OBJ 4.5: Prevent Iranian strikes against Coalition proxies in theater. - FAILED. Iran effectively struck Iraqi Kurdish militias being positioned as a proxy force, leading to the Kurds concluding a separate peace with Iran and withdrawing from the conflict despite extensive claims in Iranian territory. OBJ 4.6: Prevent second-order economic effects of the war in the United States - QUALIFIED SUCCESS. Stock market apparently unable or unwilling to believe magnitude of ongoing energy supply disruptions; jawboning and frequent false reports by the Trump Administration of imminent peace and successful negotiations reduced market turmoil at the cost of the long-term credibility of the US government. In summary: Deep failures across all lines of effort and very few objectives accomplished.

Hellooooo!!! Our greatest ally been busy. Fucking retards

Too good not to share. Iranian propaganda is as world class as their missile stockpile. Somewhere in Hell, Goebbels is smiling.

One of the better summaries I've seen. Would love to see Trump attempt to draft America's SSRI addled, obese, video game addicted, porn addicted, phone addicted youngsters for a land war in Asia.

An essential problem w the current Robert E. Lee discourse is that whether folks realize it or not, it serves as a way of othering the South and southern whites at the exact historical moment (ca 2010) that the South was the most aggressively self-integrating part of the US.

According to certain Pastors, Jesus wanted this church bombed, b/c they think Bibi is like David from the Bible.

How is it easier to get Iran Strikes than: Epstein List JFK Files Taxes Cut Mass Deportations Fair Trade Deep State Arrests Auto-Pen Hearings DOGE Cuts

Neocon Jews have no place in the MAGA movement. They are a tiny, fringe minority. Their views are unpopular and anti-American. They use bot farms and paid actors to create the appearance that they have more support than they actually do. In reality, nobody wants them around. MAGA by definition means no more needless wars for Israel. 100% of MAGA patriots oppose sending our sons to a needless war for Israel. Neocon Jews will never change that, no matter how much disinformation they spread.

📜Israel's running into the fundamental problem of bribing and blackmailing people as opposed to actually creating loyalty. Even Netenyahu himself doesn't know if all the US congressmen praising Israel and promising to back it actually intend to, or if they're just saying so and planning to drag their feet and pass the buck and not stick their neck out until Israel's position collapses. Think of how good Presidents, congressmen, generals, administrators and all the rest are at putting on a show and claiming to fight tooth and nail for policies and goals... only to expend no effort, never intend to deliver, and claim they fought tooth and nail but just couldn't because of the million of other decision makers in Washington. Netenyahu is betting his entire country against THAT. . For being America's "Number One Ally".... If rockets were landing in Toronto, London, Berlin, Paris, Sydney, or Tokyo the US would already have declared war and no Americans would be moaning or outraged at riding to their defense.

I'm withdrawing my membership in The Kiss Army. I will never forget the hysterics of "edgy countercultural icons" like Gene Simmons and Howard Stern. Both are forever tainted, along with so many others.

Aside from Mike Pence and (bafflingly) Ben Affleck - what does every NYT ‘Dealbook Summit’ panel speaker have in common? Zuckerberg, Bankman-Fried, Netanyahu, Zelensky, Fink, Yellen, Jassy.. even the host, Andrew Sorkin? This is what they want the ruling caste to look like.

If a group wants to make it illegal to criticize them, it's not because they are innocent. It's because they are doing terrible things they do not want you to discuss.

The entire leftist worldview revolves around the thinking that every person at every point of time in the history of the world was as miserable as they are right now.

.@LeaderMcConnell got some of that tax payer FXT Ukraine money. Now you know why the uni-party @GOP @DNC didn’t want a audit of Ukraine money & had to get rid of Trump.

Majority of Crimea wanted to join Russia. Half of Ukraine wanted to stay close to Russia, then the US funded a color revolution in 2014. All of this is easily verified. Sorry some of your brains broke and you think 2022 is The Beginning of History.

You wont see this in MSM. NATO training center in Lvov destroyed last night by 30 Russian cruise missiles. 180 mercenaries dead 348 injured. Amongst the dead 32 foreign instructors.