False Flag Incoming!
Well this little adventure in Iran is going great. It is wildly unpopular and it isn’t going well, even with the massive censorship from Israel and the endless cheerleading of “conservative” media. Gas prices are up sharply and the Orange Man keeps vacillating back and forth between “it’s pretty much over, greatest victory ever!” and “you better stop fighting back or we will hit you twenty times harder!”. Matt Bracken quipped on Twitter:
Got rid of the old Khamenei who wanted to be martyred and replaced him with a much younger and far more militant Khamenei. That is the sort of military genius we have come to expect from this administration.
The whole thing is sort of at a stalemate. Iran is still launching missiles at Israel and at nations that host U.S. bases. Again we don’t know what is really happening as a result of Israeli censorship. Ask some people and Iran is barely fighting back, ask others and this is going very badly. Pete Hegseth was sent out in front of the cameras to tell everyone how great it is going which seems like a bad sign, because it sure feels like Trump and company are looking for an exit ramp.
The Iranians who are supposedly being smashed are saying “not so fast my friend”: IRGC Says Iran, Not US, Will Determine War’s End As Trump Threatens Strikes ‘20 Times Harder’ If Hormuz Transit Blocked.
As others have pointed out, America doesn’t really seem to know what “winning” looks like and Trump keeps moving the goalposts. The Iranians know that causing economic pain to the American people via higher gas prices will upset most of us more than seeing flag draped coffins paraded past Trump wearing one of his stupid hats. If they hang on and America backs off, it is a symbolic victory.
I am not a strategic mastermind but it might seem less than convincing that we have the Iranians on the ropes.
That is why “news” stories like these that seem coordinated make me nervous….
When Jewsmax and the “mainstream” news are singing the same song, it can’t mean anything good for the American people. We “conspiracy theorists” call this “predictive programming”, telling us beforehand who to blame for something they know is coming because they are behind it. For example a car bomb explodes on a busy street, killing dozens and maiming hundreds. The FBI conveniently “finds” incriminating “evidence” like Iranian flags. They blame Iran, maybe round up some patsies with Middle Eastern names and toss them in jail to rot until people forget about it. Now they have a built in excuse to send in ground troop “Remember the Main Street bombings!” and thousands of Americans die.
It isn’t like there is precedent for this, either direct involvement by the government or patsies they can blame for carrying it out. Possible examples include the U.S.S. Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, etc.
As always it is wise to remember the words of Ol’ Remus:
Well I had a conversation with a (now possibly former) friend, who is a local conservative talk radio show host expressing my skepticism of the entire adventure, and I was told that I was selfish and more concerned with my own validation than I was with the country. In short, there is a significant portion of the MAGA crowd that will follow Orangeman literally down to the gates of Hell, no matter what blustering bloviation comes from his mouth
Trump offered a ceasefire and Iran turned it down, and demands payment for the damages the US and Israel have inflicted...that tells you how well the war is going....and being run by a moron like Pete Hegseth is even worse....