The American Perspective

Jesse Watters: “US intelligence believe the Iranians squirreled away what’s left of their uranium into what’s known as Pickaxe Mountain, a nearly impenetrable bunker buried deep in granite where evil scientists have been working around the clock, cobbling back together a program that was obliterated during Operation Midnight Hammer. The bunker busters might not be able to do the trick. Reports say special forces might have to be inserted to physically shut it down on the ground…Both sides waiting to see who blinks first. So far, the President says in a way, we’ve already won.” IMO This is where it gets tricky, troops on the ground operating in a hostile environment. The one thing Trump does not want, nor do the American people. But….it appears the options are not great outside physically getting the material by boots on the ground. Hopefully it can be done in a controlled situation. The situation must be monitored, and with a new regime it could be done relatively safely. Rh

President Trump:

We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

The Israeli Perspective

“The idea of the war works like this,” says a senior security official: with one hand we grip the regime’s throat with force. With the other hand we shake it unexpectedly, again and again and again, until its neck breaks.

The first hand is the structured military effort: first the air-defense systems, then the ballistic missiles, then the remnants of the nuclear project, and then the regime’s repression headquarters.

The second hand was the surprise Israel had planned.

The assessment in Israel is that even the military chokehold itself, if it continues as planned, will lead to irreversible damage to the regime. It is fascinating to see a boutique workshop and an industrial factory operating together, as they describe it in Israel. Our air force meticulously plans attacks that are enormous by Israeli standards, yet still rely on ingenuity – always squeezing 150% of the potential from equipment and munitions.

The Americans arrive and simply grind the targets into dust with disproportionate firepower. They have never heard of “munitions economy” (and they also do not tend to consult on everything with the military advocate general).

“War is not a program you can order according to your wishes,” Netanyahu said this week. Only state investigative commissions demand a detailed plan in advance that is fully realized. Of course there was planning. The prime minister despises PowerPoint presentations almost as much as he despises Khamenei, and for years he has been fighting a war against them in meetings, with limited success.

And yet, for his meeting with Trump at the White House exactly one month ago, he personally arrived with a seven-slide presentation detailing the full principles of the joint war effort.

“How are you holding up?” Trump asked, referring to two and a half years of war with another round still ahead.

“You are an ancient tiger with sharp teeth,” Netanyahu replied, “but we are the honey badger – a small animal, tough, but wild and relentless.”

The way the wounded Iranian beast fights the badger and the tiger is surprisingly similar to Hamas’s strategy. Sinwar counted on exploiting Israeli society’s sensitivity to its hostages and the Western public’s sensitivity to the killing of civilians.

The Revolutionary Guards, on the other hand, rely on Western sensitivity to rising energy prices and on dragging the conflict out over time.

In Israel, the new rule is to focus on accomplishing the missions rather than on the calendar:

not dates – processes.

(Amit Segal)

“The Americans didn’t believe we would succeed in the decapitation strike.  

We destroyed between 160–190 launchers, disabled another 200, and around 150 remain active. The missile crews are afraid to go out; there are desertions and refusals to follow orders. Every day we hunt down several launchers.  

We’ve entered a perhaps unheroic and monotonic stage of systematic destruction of command and control headquarters, military industry, and nuclear infrastructure. The Iranians have over 10,000 dead and wounded among their security forces.  

What is likely to follow after the war is a weakened regime, an economic blockade, diplomatic isolation, and eventually a revolution. The situation matches what we anticipated.”

(Amit Segal)

Psalms 122:6-9 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! Maranatha