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| Pravda and the Democrats Are Lying: Operation Epic Fury Strategy Is Brilliant; UPDATE: Iran Opens Strait |
| 2026-03-15 |
| [Hot Air] We have reached the point where the Democrats and the media are trying to convince the public that the military and Trump were unaware that the Strait of Hormuz was a strategic chokepoint, vulnerable to Iranian attack. Newsflash: the US military can read maps, and Trump has spoken about the importance of the Strait since the turn of the century. The media and Democrats are desperate to portray what is, legitimately, the most successful military operation in modern history as a chaotic, strategy-free, and failing war that Iran is winning. Tactically, the operation has gone almost flawlessly. Strategically? We won't know for weeks or months when the dust settles. Compared to prior military operations, perhaps the only one that has excelled the metrics of success is the capture of Maduro, which was executed flawlessly and achieved strategic success. Venezuela was fundamentally transformed in a night, and is now bending over backward to please us. Not to mention that it has triggered the imminent collapse of the Cuban regime. The military strikes taking place now have all been preparation for a new phase in the war that is unfolding as we speak, and the one intended to achieve the strategic objective of the war. Nobody at the top levels of the government here or in Israel expected that bombing of the military sites alone would achieve the political objective. Those attacks are vital to achieving the mission, but not the mission itself. The mission is regime change, but not necessarily in the sense of eliminating Iran's government. In fact, I suspect that the hope is to keep much of the government structure in Iran intact to speed economic recovery. What does that mean? How can a regime change but the government remain largely intact? To understand that, you have to understand that Iran's government is a tool of the regime, but not the regime itself. In some cases, that is obvious: the IRGC and the Basij are parallel institutions to the army and the police. The former exist to enforce regime preservation, while the latter are organs of power little different from those in any other state.
The biggest targets in this new phase of the war will be Iran's organs of internal control—the people who shoot protesters when they mass in the streets—and its financial and economic lifelines.
Both are now being executed. Iran's financial lifeline in the UAE and Qatar is being severed, and the destruction of Iran's ability to defend Kharg Island is, as Duane argued, a checkmate. Oil is the lifeblood of the Iranian regime, and the United States now has a knife directly at the jugular. Iranians are being encouraged to wait before they revolt, not to take to the streets yet. The decapitation of the Basij is vital to the success of a revolt. Failure to do so would just be throwing Iranians into a meat grinder. We may be a good number of moves on the chessboard before the King is toppled, but it's hard to see how that result can be avoided. The bigger question is what comes next for Iran; strategic victory will only be achieved if we can replace the regime without destroying the governmental functions necessary for society to rebuild. Nobody wants another Libya. It has been two weeks, with the war plan being executed ahead of schedule. Yet the media is pretending that the failure to have completed the war by now is proof of failure. We bombed Iraqi troops three times as long in the first Gulf War before the first tanks moved into Iraq, and that was one of the most successful wars in human history. UPDATE: Iran opens Strait of Hormuz to all traffic from countries other than US or Israel, which is basically all traffic. |
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