Dominic Waghorn – Sky News March 3, 2026
Take the win or double down.
That’s Donald Trump’s dilemma as the war escalates with Iran.
He says there could be weeks more to go, so is he serious and can the US last that long?
Ahead of the war, in highly unusual leaks Pentagon commanders warned the force being assembled in the region would have enough firepower for a week or two at most.
The clock may be running faster for America’s allies in the region. Well-sourced reports claim Gulf states are already begging the US president to end this soon, not least because their stocks of air defence missiles are dwindling worryingly quickly.
This war is asymmetrical. As unbalanced as using Ferraris against e-bikes it’s been said. A multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art Patriot missile for instance will bring down a drone worth only thousands, but doing so indefinitely is not sustainable.
Iran’s strategy to lash out in multiple directions has surprised many. It should not have. They have long warned they would take the gloves off if they faced an attempt to change their regime.
It could cost them. Gulf states and Saudi Arabia will now be considering joining the fight against Iran with their own forces.
But for now, the strategy is already working, putting pressure on the US from vital regional allies to end this war but also forcing their attackers to deplete their stocks of astronomically expensive weaponry.
There are unknowns. How quickly can the US reinforce its fighting capability and crucially what is happening on the ground. Is Israel softening up parts of the country from the air to enable regional uprisings armed by agents in the field?
That could take the war in a very different direction – the fragmentation of Iran and internal civil war.
There is no sign of that yet. In the absence of such strategies the regime will most likely survive a few weeks of aerial onslaught however ferocious.
This war is asymmetric in another way too, that of desired outcomes. To win, Israel and America must bring about regime change because that is their objective. To declare victory the regime therefore needs only survive, for as long as it takes.
And maintaining the pace of their attacks on Iran indefinitely for both the US and Israel is not an option.
More US pilots will be shot down, or troops killed on the ground, the impact on the global economy will be too great, regional allies and stability will be too punishing. Domestic support for another foreign war will continue haemorrhaging.
For whatever reason, this war will have its limits and if the Iranian regime still stands when it reaches that point, what happens then?
Social science exam.
Question 1.
Why would the leader of the cucked world say the following:
“It will be over in three or four weeks.”
Choose one of these:
a. He’s just flapping his gums.
b. He has a vaguely accurate crystal ball.
c. Nutjob told him to.
d. 165,000 children were blown to pieces when a hairdryer shortcircuited.
e. That’s when the ballroom will be finished.
This question is worth 33%.
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/will-trump-succeed-in-creating-a-dictatorship-in-the-us/#comment-7527571
“Trump is not going to last much longer. Trump is a wrecking ball, an emotionally driven madman, who thinks he is god’s gift to mankind and Israel, but in reality he is a deranged narcissistic unread fool shitting on the deck of the sinking USS Titanic. Trump’s adventure into Iran has no exit strategy favorable to the USofAssholes. What is really going down is Iran is decimating the US military bases near Iran forcing the ZOGUSA to flee in terror and cowardice. Israel is being turned into dust as we speak. This time Iran is not going to stop”
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https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/will-trump-succeed-in-creating-a-dictatorship-in-the-us/#comment-7527965
“What is happening to Amerika right now is the rapid shrinking of the military empire, Amerika is being forced out of the M.E., Israel is being destroyed, Trumpenyahu are twin evils -a spinning dipole in a freefall back to hell. Both of them will soon be gone, leaving only bad memories. Amerika is desperately trying to encircle and crush Iran, Russia, and China. In ten years China will be unstoppable. Those who are maintaining the petro-dollar empire are desperately trying to stop BRICS, an alt currency trading system, from ending the uni-polar world. So before this war began, pundits said China would protect it’s Belt and Road, use Iran as proxy, stop the Greater Israel expansion. And laughably, these Neocon fools actually pulled the trigger – which has caused cascading change in the matrix.
Ultimately, Amerika, which is 40 trillion in debt, is not going to decide how the world will be. The debtor does not dictate to the creditor. Russia dumped all US Treasuries, and now China is also selling off Treasury shit paper, China has sold off half. With China taking Iran’s side, I will not be surprised if China dumps the remaining dollar holdings. Trump will surely screw China any way he can. Trump could reneg on that debt. And we have a good idea how China will resist, they were successful in driving us out of Vietnam with a network of trails through the jungle. China has steel rail to Tehran. So what is stop China and it’s huge manufacturing capability from sending endless tech, missiles, and drone parts to the Iranians and their war effort? Better to fight with a proxy than to face Amerika on the front line.”
there is no dilemma for Trump + Satanjahu as
long they continue to play against international
laws + rules . world will look on + their asslickers
(Merz, Starmer, Macron, Zelensky etc) will bow .
From Peace President
to
Piece of Shit President
…glad Irans killing some CIA gormless twats like “The Johnson”
Iran needs a better Gestapo to register all
jewish citizens as potential collaborators/
Sayans to CIA/Mossad spies + watch them .