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It will derange your thinking, if you give ear to it. Admiral Rob Bauer, the morally blind head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed. It is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first-strike force. “It is more competent," he says, "not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
He has listened to slander about a fictional Putin with a finger on the red button. Bauer is now so immoral he will violate the covenants of the NATO agreements. He is now controlled by fear that Putin will suddenly become aggressive when Putin has never gone on the defensive for over twenty years. Bauer is so unstable that he actually believes a first strike can blow up all the trucks which carry Putin's hypersonic missiles. NATO isn't able to find or track even one of those camouflaged trucks. Therefore the new NATO strategy is this: attack Russia with Ukraine, and when Russia defends herself, then "shotgun" nuclear weapons in the general direction of Moscow, hoping you might hit something before it is launched Westward.
Mr. Trump loves the "high ratings" of a celebrity and election victories for his legacy. A clean and magnanimous victory over Iran might have provided that. But a two-year quagmire will destroy his legacy, his party, our military and much of the younger generation. And Valerie Jarret will be making policy in 2028.
If the President wanted good "optics" in this imprudent and dangerous war, he would have declared an epic victory immediately after the death of the Ayatollah, pulled American assets home, and arranged the equivalent of a ticker-tape parade for them.
But it has been two full days since the decapitation, and young American bodies are being placed in coffins.
"U.S. missile and air-defense interceptor inventories have been severely drawn down by the relentless pace of recent [Iran] operations, revealing that between defending Israel, Ukraine, and itself, the American military is spread too thin. Replenishing these high-end systems can take over a year, analysts say, because production lines are optimized for peacetime and cannot be surged overnight.
"We know for sure that China is thrilled to see America weakened. They will view Iran as Joe Biden viewed Ukraine: as an opportunity to cripple a global rival (the Russian Federation.) Keep an eye out for headlines about Chinese efforts to prolong this conflict."
-- Tucker Carlson
Maybe, at most, a week long. He expected an immediate regime change and then surrender.
Remember the Sand People? Those primitive Houthis? The US spent $7 billion bombing the Houthis over about 6-7 weeks and failed to degrade the Houthis’ ability to attack with missiles.
The problem with Iran is much worse. This week, the US and Israel may burn through the last offensive and defensive munitions, including interceptors. Will Iran surrender at that point, or escalate with their larger arsenal of missiles?
If you are not praying for Pete Hegseth, you should be.
