The bottom line of the war is this: The US has nothing left to hit because Iran has gone “dark” and salted away its premiere systems, bunkered down its leadership, and only launches missiles from underground cities the US and Israel can’t penetrate because they’re deep inside Iran and would require establishing the “air superiority” that supposedly existed since day one.

In reality, it’s likely Trump himself does not know what he plans to do and is merely operating on a daily whim based on how much his “highlight reel” briefings have jacked up his endorphins that particular morning. The ‘strategic ambiguity’ card is a given for the sake of buying time, but it’s clear now that Iran is not being degraded at all and is actually only growing stronger given that socio-political consolidation has ramped up throughout the country owing to the failure of the West’s various psychological schemes.

Personally, I lean towards Ken Klippenstein’s earlier thesis that the supposedly-ongoing concentration of US ground troops is meant more as a psychological threat factor to leverage Iran into negotiations. But that doesn’t mean that should this leverage option fail, Trump won’t legitimately consider deploying the troops in some way, shape, or form—though no one yet can come up with an even semi-plausible scenario for how exactly such an operation could unfold.

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