| ▲ | brandon272 4 hours ago | |
Difficult to reconcile the justification of current efforts of "Iran can't have nukes" with the unequivocal claims made less than a year ago that Iran's nuclear capabilities had been "obliterated". https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-fa... https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/sunday-shows-pre... | ||
| ▲ | stickfigure 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's possible for both of these to be true: The leaders of the US are incompetent, and bombing Iran was the right decision. "Even a stopped clock..." | ||
| ▲ | ACCount37 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
They were "allegedly obliterated" by bombing the relevant facilities, which is exactly my point. I'm honestly not sure what the goals were/are on the current Iran campaign. I'm not sure the White House knows exactly, which is a very concerning thing. If it was a campaign to inflict lasting economic damage on Iran by choking its income streams, or perform a boots on the ground regime change, or to cover for a land operation to extract nuclear materials, we would see different events. But what we saw instead was a very successful strike campaign and no follow-up. No strait seizure, no land operation. I have a lingering suspicion that the assumption was "Iran will want to negotiate after the first strike exchange" and that assumption was proven wrong fast. And I already made my distaste for "only plan for the absolute best case scenario" clear. | ||