Yesterday as Trump started indicating there might be a deal with Iran, social media was flooded with accounts saying we were surrendering to Iran – giving them billions, allowing them to control Hormuz, paying them reparations, withdrawing all US forces from the Middle East…on and on and on like that. This was then seconded by a whole chorus of voices from the anti-Trump Right.
And it was all nonsense – none of it came from Team Trump. It was all clearly an op. Attempting to set a Narrative of Trump being defeated. The sources, from what I can tell, were Iranian revolutionary guard accounts and, of course, American and global Leftist accounts. The uniformity of the information on the alleged deal shows that they were talking points cooked up in advance (coordinated between Democrats and the Mullahs?). Once a hint that a deal might be possible, out the memo went…and the barking seals went with it. We expect this from the Left…but it was infuriating to see it from the Right. And not just the deranged, TDS right. You’d think by now they would have learned – that Trump isn’t an idiot, he’s working from a plan and he’s not out to scuttle the USA.
Now that some real details are starting to emerge, we can see the shape of what Trump wants to accomplish: complete termination of Iran’s nuclear program along with freedom of navigation through Hormuz. The crux of it seems to be that Iran doesn’t get anything until those two things are accomplished (this would include the US taking possession of Iran’s enriched uranium). But even now, we still don’t know – there has been no official word. But this does make sense.
You might ask: what about regime change? Well, what about it? During the bombing the Air Force and the IDF were targeting mullah security goons…they were hiding under bridges and such to keep out of sight of our aircraft. The entire leadership of the regime was dead or in hiding. This was the moment, guys. If the Iranians wanted to be free, it was theirs for the taking. Sure, the mullah’s goons would have fought…they’d have to, because any successor regime is going to kill them. But freedom must be fought for and the Iranians had the perfect opportunity. Might have cost them some thousands of lives, but that would be it and it would all be over. The Iranian people remained in hiding. They’d take a video of a bomb explosion. Cheer it. And then go back inside…no risk taking. At least, not by anywhere near enough Iranians to matter. This is the Iranians choice – to be cowards. As far as I’m concerned, they just voted in overwhelming numbers for the mullahs. Exile groups were putting up pictures of the Iranian crown prince and saying now was the time…but I guess in all the press of events they forgot to sneak into Iran and actually fight the mullahs. I didn’t care much about the Iranian people before…care absolutely nothing about them, now. They were clearly waiting for an American army to show up and liberate them…after which they would, of course, compete with each other to be more anti-American than the other guy…probably start taking shots at our troops to prove how anti-American they are. No, thanks.
And I’m not even particularly concerned about navigation through Hormuz…as long as American-flagged ships aren’t molested, I now don’t care at all. You think of that the Indian ship which went into a panic over some goon on the Iranian coast firing an AK-47 at it…bullets ain’t gonna stop a 400,000 ton tanker. Harmlessly bounce off the side. If you’re worried about it, hire some mercenaries to man some .50 caliber machine guns aboard the tanker: out in international waters you can kill anyone attacking you with impunity. But the Indian ship ran away…and the rest of the world’s merchant fleet also chickened out, even though it is clear that the mullahs have no capacity to actually impede navigation. The world gets its oil from there, not us. If you’re such a coward that you won’t cruise past some guys taking pot shots at you, then that is a you problem, not an American problem.
I’m rather tired of the world – bunch of greedy, lying cowards. I do have a little respect for the Ukrainians these days as they’ve stood up to Russia. The Israelis get my respect, as do the Japanese. Heck, even the Chinese get a measure of it. Rest of the world? I hold it in utter contempt. The other day some Indian tourists defaced some ancient Native carvings here in the USA…get the danged foreigners out of my country – every last one of them. They don’t add any value to the USA. And if the world burns down then as long as our Navy and Air Force are second to none, we won’t catch fire. I’m honestly of the opinion that if the world wants our help, then they’re going to have to pay us for it – gold, raw materials, territorial concessions. You’re having a civil war and want us to end it? Sure. We’re taking your primary export port. Kicking all of your nationals out of it. Making it American territory. Now you have to export through us. Forever. And you can’t immigrate to US territory. Ever. So on like that.
And I’m tired of the traitors in our midst, as well – the people (and includes people on the Right) who are willing to sell us out just so they don’t have to admit they were wrong about anything. That is really the crux of it – a pig headed unwillingness to merely at error. The rest of us have – we on the MAGA side are repentant and humble. We know we participated in helping to screw everything up. We were wrong about a lot of things. Sometimes honestly wrong in that we didn’t realize we had been deceived, but still wrong…and when you find your error, the only thing to do is own up to it and fix the problem. Not whine about “norms” and get all pissy that the person you hate turned out to be right.
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