And it turns out when you're America, you can just kill the bad guys and keep killing until someone decides working with America is a better deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49703274)

Speak loudly and brandish a big FUCKSTICK

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49703282)

Iraqis were dancing and celebrating when saddam was captured back in 2003 iirc. The next decade didn’t go so well for them so we’ll see what unfolds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49703397)

There are entire university departments, think tanks, media outlets, NGOs, foundations, and political parties devoted to promoting self-defeating, enervating fictions about terrorism designed to tie the hands of the West. We just have to live with it, deal with it, accommodate it, accept the barbarism. Terrorists have grievances. It's partly our fault, after all, because reasons. There are no military solutions. If we're nice to the terrorists they will actually help us stabilize the region. The tropes go on forever and they are invented by people who want the west to lose, and who would rather be wrong but appear sophisticated than be right and appear crude.

Trump wants our side to win. The winning approach to terrorism is very simple. Bomb them to smithereens. Kill them off. Decapitate the regimes. Sanction them until they have no more money for jihad. Trump gets it, because unlike so many people in politics, he doesn't care whether Harvard likes him.

Winning is going to generate a real peace dividend for America. Finally dealing with Iran -- the head of the snake -- will enable the US to step away from the Middle East. It will send a message to our adversaries that the big dog is still in charge. And very enjoyably, it will sweep aside decades of dumb elite groupthink about how we have no alternative but to cut deals with terrorists. Thank you President Trump.

https://x.com/NoahPollak/status/2027770547451408733?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49704078)

SIDNER: “How do you square the no war promise with the potential of a protracted war?”

JENNINGS: “Well, first of all, the president has consistently, over the course of his entire public life, said he will NEVER permit the Iranian regime to have a nuclear weapon.”

“That’s why he took action last summer, and that’s part of the reason he took action today.”

“So I don’t see this as him starting a war. I see this as a preventative measure to prevent a war against the largest state sponsor of terror in the world.”

“My view is this is a new day for the people of Iran.”

“It’s a new day for the Middle East.”

“And it’s a new day for the world, because the most courageous commander in chief of my lifetime said, I’m not putting up with this.”

“We’ve been banging our head against a wall for 47 years, while these guys terrorized the world.”

“And I’m not going to permit it any longer.”

“So when I see these Iranian people in LA and other places celebrating, I can only imagine their emotions and the emotions of the people in Iran who now have a chance to take back their country and restore what was once a great pro-Western country.”

“That’s the end goal here. No more war, but peace and a government and a culture in Iran that can actually participate with the rest of the world, instead of terrorize it.”

“That’s what the president did, he oughta be commended for it.”

https://x.com/overton_news/status/2027933491896213562?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49704082)

The post linked here tying Venezuela, Nigeria, Cuba, Mexico and Iran as a curtailment of Chinese power was interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49704458)

https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839714&mc=4&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49704469)

Ahram Online confirmed Israeli-US aircraft struck a depot site in Zanjan. IRNA, Iran’s own state news agency, reported explosions. Multiple OSINT accounts circulated footage of detonations consistent with precision-guided munitions hitting stored ordnance, the kind of secondary explosions that happen when a bomb hits a warehouse full of things that also explode.

Now pull the map back and understand what Zanjan tells you about the scale of what is happening inside Iran tonight.

Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Tabriz. Lorestan. And now Zanjan. Eight cities across a country the size of Alaska being struck simultaneously by two air forces operating from carriers, regional bases, and stealth platforms that Iran cannot detect. This is not a targeted operation against a nuclear program. This is the systematic dismantlement of Iran’s entire military supply chain. Depots. Command nodes. Radar installations. Missile storage. Leadership compounds. The target list has expanded by hundreds of percent according to Israeli sources who described thousands of hours of intelligence preparation. Every site Iran spent decades building and dispersing across its geography to survive exactly this kind of attack is being hit in a single campaign.

Zanjan tells you the intelligence penetration is total. These are not obvious targets. A depot in a northwestern city that does not appear in any IAEA report or Congressional Research Service briefing means that American and Israeli intelligence mapped Iran’s logistics network down to the warehouse level. They know where the missiles are stored before they are loaded onto launchers. They know where the spare parts sit. They know which depots feed which launch sites and they are severing every supply artery in parallel so that what survives the first wave has nothing to reload with for the second.

Iran built its military doctrine on dispersal. Spread everything across a country of 1.6 million square kilometers so that no single strike can be decisive. Hide production in mountain tunnels. Store missiles in civilian areas. Scatter command posts across eight provinces. The entire strategy assumed the enemy would hit the obvious targets and miss the rest.

The enemy hit Zanjan. The enemy is not missing anything.

When a military campaign reaches cities that no analyst predicted, it means the target list is not a list. It is a map. And the map covers everything.

Iran did not prepare for a war this wide. Nobody told them to.

https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027799113182679061?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839529&forum_id=2...#49704646)