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One of the great weaknesses of American foreign policy has been our predictability. Our opponents have been able to pinpoint what we would and would not do.
While one of President Trump’s greatest strengths has been his unpredictability. And on the Iran strikes, he not only kept everyone guessing until the last minute, but used sophisticated means to draw everyone off. Tucker Carlson’s pal Dan Caldwell was booted from the Pentagon over allegations of leaking. So were a number of others. When the strikes were actually launched, there were zero leaks despite claims by some in the media that they were getting information from anonymous “officials”. Everyone had learned to stay quiet on the big issue.
The media and social media analysts were misled about our staging prep for an attack which proceeded quite differently.
President Trump’s “two week” deadline may have been sincere but fell apart when Iran refused to engage in high-level negotiations, but it may have been another level of the feint.
Either way everyone was caught by surprise. Including yours truly. And that’s a good thing.
It’s also a message to China. The CCP believes that it can anticipate and predict us. When it can’t, it gets nervous. Any CCP plan for Taiwan just became a lot shakier because there is no way that Xi and top officials can look at what happened with Iran and believe that they can gauge America’s response with any degree of certainity.
The Israeli response after Oct 7 against Hezbollah and now Iran already showed how war plans by their allies could go awry through misdirection and sophisticated planning. The Iran strikes are a more direct warning to China that America’s moves cannot be predicted and that, like the Israelis, we might be capable of something more sophisticated than our actions in the last generaton would suggest.
China’s allies in the Middle East are losing. And America just became unpredictable. That might buy us the time we need in the Pacific.
It now seems likelier that Xi will push back whatever he was planning for after 2028.
Excellent coverage and analysis, thanks !!!!!!!
Yes, Xi Ping Pong can go eat a bowl of rice and STFU. And Chinese rice sucks compared to California rice.
I knew this was going to happen. Trump gets people to look one way but then acts from another. But if you watch the guy his resolve is easy to see. I wouldn’t fuck with him.
Ask yourself this: How many wars have the Chinese military been in compared to the US military?
By the way, what most Americans don’t know is that the Chicom military is mostly The stark truth is, the Chicom is better at pageantry than fighting a real war. Moreover, Chicom military commanders do not trust conscripts to train with live ammo. Even worse, the Chicom military can’t keep their vehicles and aircraft fueled because military officers steal the fuel and sell it on the black market.
Of course, Americans never hear about this and are ignorant of the truth because the American media routinely under reports or fails to report to truth altogether.
The American people opinions about what’s going on in the world is sharped and molded by the MSM and their masters. The MSM’s job is to keep the American people ignorant of the truth.
How id that accomplished? Simple: it’s called entertainment. Give the people bread and circuses and you can do and get away with just about anything right under their noses.
Fact is, the American people are the least informed and at the same time, the most misinformed people on the planet.
Big Media is Demedia, Enemedia to the American people. The Left has the same stranglehold on schools from K through the Poison Ivies. Media propaganda is the reinforcer of the lies taught in schools.
That enough Americans have found their way around this morass of leftist indoctrination to elect President Trump convincingly is a miracle, aided by upstart media that acted like the samizdat of the Soviet era (hand written or typed anti-communist screeds passed hand to hand) except with far larger reach.
I found my way around the American media’s unabashed attempts to “shape” the news to fit their narrative by perusing news sources from around the world.
Every news story contains indisputable facts that can’t be misinterpreted or spun one way or another no matter the biases of the people reporting the story. Reading news reports of the same story from different sources around the world allows one to discern those indisputable facts.
Thank you, Rob A. You have great perspective and if you had not responded to Laine, I was going to ask you about your sources of information.
“The stark truth is, the Chicom is better at pageantry than fighting a real war.”
Yeah, that shithole has always been good at killing its own citizens and cannibalism but not warfare. Everything you wrote about it is true.
I’ve been there. It sucks.
China had 320,000 troops in North Vietnam between 1965 and ’71. It also had entered the Korean War, neither of which we won. It has also been in wars of suppression in Tibet, the border wars with India, Vietnam, and the USSR in 1969, an invasion of Vietnam in response to its occupation of Cambodia. Its track record against us isn’t all that reassuring as many of the tactics Mao innovated, fourth-generation warfare, have been effective against the US military in Vietnam and Iraq, and they are likely using them via the idiot Democrats’ immigration policies. I suspect a serious share of posters on X, Facebook, etc. are disinformation officers.
In case you’ve forgotten or are unaware, the Vietnam war was a war we, the US, refused to win.
The same thing happened in Iran when that lowbrow idiot GW Bush and his neocons pals steered us into nation building instead of letting the military do what it does best, (e.g., killing the enemy, breaking things, blowing sh*t up, etc.) and then getting the hell out.
I think Trump gets it that if you’re going to get into a war, no half-assing it. You either go balls to the wall or not at all.
Mess with the Don at your peril.
Trump has what Bozo boy (Obammie) and Biden didn’t have and never had: moxie; chutzpah; a pair of big hairy brass balls!
Except think of the chutzpah that Obama/Biden had to HELP Iran toward terrorism and nukes with billions and Biden to leave the border gaping open for 4 interminable years while lying first that it was closed, then that he needed Congress to close what he had opened! They have balls all right but swung them in anti-American and corrupt ways.
That’s what Sec Def Pete Hegseth said this morning – the two weeks was misdirection for Iran – the plan was in place and executed like the proverbial Swiss watch movements
WITHIN 2 weeks can mean from one second (that Trump mentioned specifically) to 14 days. Did the mullahs understand English nuance?
Laine:
What Obammie did was the equivalent of a spineless wimp handing over their lunch money to a bully.
Iran got what was coming to them, and China is definitely a threat, but mostly I care about destroying the deep state domestic enemy. Does this military action empower the deep state intelligence apparatus or is it disempowering by refocusing them on foreign threats? Trump’s support is strong but a prolonged conflict could go a long way in fracturing it, which is certainly the main goal of his democrat/RINO/deep state enemies, since their assassination attempts failed.
I wouldn’t to much worry about the Chicoms. The only thing their military is good at is bluster and pageantry which might win them an Oscar Award but that’s it. They roar like a lion but are hung like squirrels.
It would be scary to face off against chicoms.
They all look alike.
They would appear to be an army of clones.
It was also unconstitutional. President doesn’t have the authority to do this, and yes I know many have done it, but the text of the Constitution is clear that that power to engage in war or military strikes or even sending private mercenaries is with Congress, not the Executive. Foolish people are cheering this after decades of propaganda against Iran. Funny, how everyone only wants to go back 46 years… try going back to 1953 when we stuck our nose where it didn’t belong… and that’s the reason for Iran in the 70’s, but shhhh we don’t want anyone looking at the propaganda we put out all for the sake of…. Israel.
No, let’s go back further to 1951. The oil and oil technology belonged and still belongs to the West not to the Muslim SAVAGES. No oil, no oil money, no oil money no Muslim SAVAGES terrorism.
End States Who Sponsor Terrorism
By Leonard Peikoff
October 2, 2001—Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.
Fifty years ago, Truman and Eisenhower surrendered the West’s property rights in oil, although that oil rightfully belonged to those in the West whose science, technology, and capital made its discovery and use possible. The first country to nationalize Western oil, in 1951, was Iran. The rest, observing our frightened silence, hurried to grab their piece of the newly available loot.
The cause of the U.S. silence was not practical, but philosophical. The Mideast’s dictators were denouncing wealthy egotistical capitalism. They were crying that their poor needed our sacrifice; that oil, like all property, is owned collectively, by virtue of birth; and that they knew their viewpoint was true by means of otherworldly emotion. Our Presidents had no answer. Implicitly, they were ashamed of the Declaration of Independence. They did not dare to answer that Americans, properly, were motivated by the selfish desire to achieve personal happiness in a rich, secular, individualist society.
The Muslim countries embodied in an extreme form every idea—selfless duty, anti-materialism, faith or feeling above science, the supremacy of the group—which our universities, our churches, and our own political Establishment had long been upholding as virtue. When two groups, our leadership and theirs, accept the same basic ideas, the most consistent side wins.
In one of the present Emirates, a tourist stop is the present ruler’s father’s domicile which is basically a glorified sand castle. In a single generation, camel drivers sitting on a fortune in oil became mega-wealthy thanks to the West that developed technology requiring oil as energy to run it, found the oil, built the machinery for tapping the oil and have been paying the squatters on top of the oil top dollar ever since.
How dare you post something critical of President Trump! All your points are pure fabrications that indicate you’ve never learned basic civics. Trump ALWAYS knows exactly what he is doing. He thinks three steps of everyone else. He would have been re-elected the first time he ran for re-election had it not been for the widespread voter fraud a complicit, liberal press ignored. You are a Communist who should move to Cuba to be with your compatriots. Do us all a favor and take Fakeahontas Warren and Chuck Schumerscum with you.
The Constitution DOESN’T say that. Congress has the authority to declare War. That’s it. A President has the authority – according to the Constitution- to fuck up whatever country or other enemy he wants.
Maybe you should read it. I know you lefties don’t want to read the document you constantly misrepresent but maybe it would put some wood in your little limpy.
Yeah, I was thinking about that last night. He is Commander in Chief if I recall.
Yes he is. The absolute commander of all American military forces. He can bomb Iran or any other country he wants to. No formal declaration is needed and is a dumb idea anyway. Forewarning an enemy is stupid.
I’ll be happy to have a civilized, polite, and respectful conversation with you after my President Donald J. Trump drops a nuclear bomb on Mecca and another on Medina, wiping both Muslim shitholes off the face of the earth, and thereby utterly crushing the Muslim SAVAGE’s belief that Allah Snackbar is going to protect him and lead him to world conquest and 47 Virgins In Paradise.
If you believe that an anti-Semite like yourself has any currency on this website, you are foolishly
mistaken. If anything, your comments serve as a reminder to Front Page readers and other Americans what we are up against: a fifth column of America-haters who are actively working to degrade the stature and strength of America.
Your claim that President Trump’s action against Iran is unconstitutional (the War Powers Act), is not only thoroughly wrong (that act is unconstitutional), but the claim is another one of your gaslighting tactics to weaken our military effectiveness. — so obvious.
We are on to the likes of you. Get used to it
Decades of propaganda against Iran. That propaganda wrote itself, friend, because Iran has engaged in violence worldwide all on its own. They are adults and ought to expect to be treated as such.
And what is it with you fools and the 1953 coup in Iran? I heard all about it when I was in graduate school in the late 1970s. A modestly competent man who would give press briefings in his pajamas. At some point, people have to get over what occurred 70, 80, 100 years ago and get on with life, by which I mean trying to get along with others rather than bully, threaten, and lie. Islam can’t do that, of course.
Your ignorance of foreign policy and presidential powers is matched by the anti-Semitism in your posts.
Why does this dude Tim Brown look like one of those tranny killers? Because he thinks like them – stupid and lives with all his teddy bears – takes tea with them too – liberals are the shit stinking up the sewers
So we’re suppose to accept them parading around chanting death to America and preparing to deliver on that threat and just laugh it off and do nothing? You sound like a weak and timid person who is use to getting bullied and live in constant fear.
Ah, yet another Jew hater “graces” the pages of this site. How original.
Just think, if we actually went to congress to get a decision on whether to conduct a bombing raid, there probably wouldn’t be a decision because of the Bernie Sanders wing of the democrat party, aided by the Massie/Paul wing of the weenie Republicans. Meanwhile Iran would simply go ahead and finish their bomb(s).
Freak’in awesome! Unlike Obama & Biden, Trump is unpredictable and isn’t afraid to put foot to ass when necessary. Just when you think you got him figured out, here comes a boot out of nowhere POW! right up your ass!
The CCP must be in a cold sweat right about now. For all their blustering, Trump just said: “oh yeah? Watch this” and dropped a 10 ton[?} bomb right down Iran’s pie hole!! That essentially says to the Chicoms: “you want some too, punks? Go ahead, make my day..”
As for the rest of the world, Trump just demonstrated a pair of BIG BRASS BALLS!. Those Euro weenies probably all wet the bed last night and on their second change of diapers!
30,000 pound bombs, can you imagine bombs weighing that much. 15 tons an whadda you get – another Iranian nuke site obliterated and you paid your debt to secure peace for the world.
A correction to my post::
Ask yourself this: How many wars have the Chinese military been in compared to the US military?
By the way, what most Americans don’t know is that the Chicom military is better at pageantry than fighting a real war. Moreover, Chicom military commanders do not trust conscripts to train with live ammo. Even worse, the Chicom military can’t keep their vehicles and aircraft fueled because military officers steal the fuel and sell it on the black market.
Of course, Americans never hear about this and are ignorant of the truth because the American media routinely under reports or fails to report to truth altogether.
The American people opinions about what’s going on in the world is sharped and molded by the MSM and their masters. The MSM’s job is to keep the American people ignorant of the truth.
How id that accomplished? Simple: it’s called entertainment. Give the people bread and circuses and you can do and get away with just about anything right under their noses.
Fact is, the American people are the least informed and at the same time, the most misinformed people on the planet.
To China No More Spy Balloons and effecting us with virus Don’t Poke the Eagle
ChiComs play the long game and have spies spread across America with many fingers in many pies starting with the universities, committing large scale industrial espionage, also buying up strategic plots of land. This is the second wave of communist infiltration after McCarthy exposed the first and look what they did to him – killed the messenger’s reputation. There’s a LOT of housecleaning to do.
McCarthy went too far by attacking President Eisenhower. That facilitated not just the end of “McCarthyism,” but the replacement of anti-communism with anti-anti-communism.
Trump’s two week deadline was not a promise to do nothing for two weeks. It was a promise to make a decision within two weeks. Within. As in less than. He kept that promise. The deadline for Iran to do something was 60 days and that had passed.
The news about where the B-2 bombers were on their way from Guam was too long to believe they were not already available in theater. Showtime came early along with curtains.
Iran walked out of talks with Europe saying they would choose war over giving up the nuclear program. That is what ended the 2 weeks.
The dimensional moves of chess vs the predictable moves of checkers.
Unlike either game, when one moves waiting for the other to reply is not a rule. War is more dynamic. Waiting for a response from Iran is not wise. There is still more to be done.
If you have world class players, they anticipate multiple possible moves by their opponents and quickly adapt to the few, if any that might be unexpected as well as thoughtfully walking them into traps and dead ends while simultaneously moving to checkmate!
Such are the dynamics of the great players, of which Trump is one.
Waiting need not imply futile but instead is an acquisition of additional intel from the enemy in calculating the most prodigious move ahead.
Interesting. I learned how to play checkers when I was 6 or 7 years old. One word: boring! Then I learned to play chess at 12 and have been playing every since. It’s the only game that’s worth playing.
The Afghanistan withdrawal disgrace by Biden and Co. such as Gen. Milley abandoning the US embassy flying a giant Pride flag led America’s enemies and allies alike to think that the glory days of the US military were behind them, led by clowns. The American military phoenix has risen. Behind the men in skirts there were apparently enough men in pants to do what needed doing.
Experienced card players understand all of this. Trump can sometimes resemble a Mississippi river boat gambler, fleecing the rubes and tin horns. I’m not asking anyone to like it, just understand the reality.
Is Trump willing to do the same to North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, etc. All the other bad guys who have nukes? Or just countries that threaten Israel?
Iran doesn’t just threaten Israel. They have repeatedly threatened the United States with total destruction and they have also engaged in terrorist bombings of US sites around the world as well as kidnapping and torturing Americans and the taking of 66 hostages in November 1979 after the removal of the Shah of Iran, a longtime US ally, from power, which allowed for the ascension of the totalitarian, Islamic Republic.
Repeated refusals by Iran, duly noted by the IAEA, to cease attempting to have nuclear weapons, has been part their longterm, deception game of extending the time with signed agreements they have never kept to continue their quest to get them.
Stop equating our nation’s national security with anybody. The Ayatollah refused diplomacy again and again so other means became necessary.
Reason enough!
All the others you mention, even the NoKo kook are reined in by MAD Mutual Assured Destruction whereas Iran’s ayatollahs have not only said they will destroy Little Satan Israel and Big Satan America but have a primitive belief system that apocalypse will bring about the rule of Islam over the remaining world with the 13th imam arising or some such rot.
Iran’s leadership has called Israel a “one bomb country”, meaning it only requires one bomb to eradicate that sliver of land AND their highest religious priority is killing Jews according to their revered prophet Mohammed who had his own grudge against the Jews of his time set in scriptural stone, unchanged over 14 centuries. There’s big motive – add nuclear means and get Armageddon.
It’s regrettable that some bad actors have nukes. Adding Muslim religious nuts to the mix is a no no as Trump has been saying for a decade or more.
Those countries don’t go parading around chanting “death to America” 24/7 and using their proxies around the world to kill Americans with regularity. Moreover, do you understand the tenets of Shia Islam? Their religion compels them to destroy America and Israel.
Shia Islam teaches that the 12 Madhi cannot return and unite the world under Islam until America and Israel is destroyed. If I had my druthers, I’d send all those Shiite mooslems bastards to hell posthaste.
Food for thought here, Iran is an enemy of Israel, but North Korea is not. NK has nukes, Iran appears on the verge of nukes, and which one gets boinked? Israel’s enemy. Again, food for thought…
Professor Dan lays the cards out face up once again.
This may provoke CCP to back of Taiwan. I went to Taiwan for 10 consecutive years for my own side business. I loved the place. The business trip was an excuse to enjoy Taiwan and its people and culture and cuisine. Taiwan cuisine-ahhhh
This may help to end the Russia-Ukraine crap too – much to pissing off those profiting off the loss of life and property in Ukraine and Russia – I’m guessing the Biden crime family is still raking in $$$ – as well as hundreds of others treasonous domestically and criminally globally
My comment and caution ⚠️ would be for our Military leaders and their commands under them, to be on high alert for a surprise missile attack coming across the North Pole from China. They are our Number One Enemy and have the capability and means to carry this out. I do believe that the U.S. is the Morden Babylon spoken of and prophesied in The Revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
ReconRambo
Semper-Fi
“Remember Lot’s Wife” Lk 17:32
Sorry China but your Puppets(Clinton, Obama and Biden)are no longer in the Oval Office
I wonder if all the reports of Chinese aircraft flying into Iran was them getting some of their own radars in place to see how well their stuff worked in detecting anything if we did attack? If they did do that, and they were unable to see any of our stealth aircraft you would think it would give them pause on Taiwan or maybe they feel they need to go in tomorrow?