And drag the region down with them.

that it is likely impossible to decapitate it through bombing alone,
even if we have in fact now killed off its former leadership---

and of course, there has never been a single instance in world history
of bringing 'regime change' through bombing alone,

without a 'ground invasion'.....

...mostly unaffected by the bombs.

Guard still intact; some 600k between police and the military in a nation of 90 million.

Iranians haven't persisted because they've outright won every war waged against them. They persist because they're good at oulasting their opponents.

who are mostly unarmed and thus helpless against their repressive government....


If they are actually serious about it, they would need to be planning to make large air-drops of small arms and ammunition to the Iranian civilians, at the very least.... but I've never heard such a thing mentioned, even in theory, by ANYONE....

....his talk of regime change and having Iranians do it themselves is just his way of disowning the consequences of his destabilizing warring.

But you're absolutely right that he's made no effort to even organize a resistance, much less protect them, and that it would take a ground invasion of hundreds of thousands of troops to control any of that.

It's a canard, and he's very possibly just talking out of his ass here, as is usual for him.

Republicans only know how to break things. They don't know how to fix and build anything other than their own bank accounts.

and how the U.S. responded to it--- arming the Afghans--


but I seriously doubt that most people in his administration have any knowledge about that---
they probably all flunked U.S. history as HE clearly did
(unless his father paid off some teachers to 'pass' him!)

Yeah, he was actually an adult during that time---
but probably paying more attention to whom he could swindle or FUCK,
not paying any attention to current events at the time---

or he's too mentally incapacitated to have retained any memories about it by now....

Google:
During a July 4, 2019 "Salute to America" speech, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the 18th-century Revolutionary War. The comment, which suggested air travel existed in the 1700's, was attributed to teleprompter failure in heavy rain. The widely mocked, historical error occurred during a speech highlighting Revolutionary war history.

of the delusion that Cubans would rise up against Castro when rebels showed up at the Bay of Pigs. While some may have bought that, the guys selling it knew it was bullshit.

...it should have forever been cemented in U.S. foreign policy when 17 of Bush's intel agencies concluded in their Natl. Security assessment that his Iraq misadventure, with it's night raids and carpet-bombing was creating more terrorists than the military was able to put down.

I do wonder if the folks who have that institutional and operation memory are still around, or have any influence with this administraton's producers and writers.



Several thousand fighters landed at the Bay of Pigs, or Playa Giron, a small beach in south-eastern Cuba. They soon ran out of ammunition and without American back-up, their mission failed.

Gregorio Moreira was a member of the local communist defence militia. He spoke to Witness about the battle for control of Cuba.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-36058705

Very trumpian, of course.

I would laugh if it wasn't so horrific.

perished to deflect from the Trump/Netanyahu EPSTEIN FILES??

Kills lots and lots and not really care about what comes next because they don't really want a next.

oh yes

He was happy 😊 we got the head dude and his line of succession

Link to tweet

He needs about 40 IQ points to be considered mediocre.