Date: September 14th, 2026 10:35 AM Author: claret factory reset button casino
venezuela was absurdly successful and easy, there were massive riots in iran, and israel said they had intel on a huge meeting of leadership and were going to take them out. confidence was running way too high.
Date: September 14th, 2026 10:54 AM Author: animeboi (.)
The 'huge riot' was instigated by the US and utterly failed and should have been an obvious warning you couldn't 'regime change' a country like Iran as easily as some two bit LatAm dictatorship.
Date: September 14th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: Khaki Liquid Oxygen Box Office
seems like if Trump had struck Iran while the riots were going on, it had a chance of working. But they let the riots fizzle out and then went full Leroy Jenkins and bombed the shit out of Iran
Date: September 14th, 2026 11:00 AM Author: claret factory reset button casino
the real trigger point was the leadership meeting which was a month or two later. israel had the intel and decided to do it. they told us they were going to do it and asked us to jump in. we could've said no, but i think they were going to do it regardless.
Date: September 14th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: Fragrant piazza
I do think this is a part of why he was so aggressive. He wants to go out solving these big historical hotspots (Cuba too). It's not that the underlying policy goals of the US changed, Trump just takes the more aggressive approach. Its understood Iran is bad, past presidents have attacked them in some capacity. Trump went all in.
The underlying policy or geopolitical goals are more durable and intricate.
He thought that Iran would fold as easily as Venezuela did. He thought that as soon as the top dictator was taken out, a more "moderate" regime would step up and negotiate some kind of peace agreement.
7 months later, we now see why every republican President before him didn't fuck with Iran.