Look, I get why many smart and decent people oppose Operation Epic Fury, and respect that smart, informed, and truly decent people will have different takes.
You don't have to be anti-American or an anti-semite to believe that this war was a strategic mistake, unnecessary, or at least not our fight. Opponents of the war may not even be wrong, although I think they are. But then again, I thought that Bush was right to invade Iraq, and I take full responsibility for cheerleading a massive strategic mistake.
It happens. Only time will tell whether this risky move by Trump will turn out well.
But admitting that there are alternative ways to look at a complicated problem does not mean that everybody's point of view is potentially right, or that all arguments are being made in good faith. A lot of what we are seeing from Epic Fury opponents is just crap.
Save this prediction from Kremlin Shill Scott Ritter.
— Matt Tardio (@angertab) March 10, 2026
"What you are going to see, in a couple weeks if this war continues, is that Israel will cease to exist as a modern functioning state".
He further claims "millions" of Israelis will leave Israel because there will be no… https://t.co/3FSPlKpFxV
"What you are going to see, in a couple weeks if this war continues, is that Israel will cease to exist as a modern functioning state".
He further claims "millions" of Israelis will leave Israel because there will be no food or water.
How does anyone take him seriously?
Does anyone besides RT still platform this guy?
There are a lot of Democrats out there right now arguing that Iran is kicking our butts, and those guys are far from the worst. All those armchair generals who are saying that Trump has no plan or strategy are arguing nonsense, if for no other reason than they have no idea what Trump is thinking, and why would he tell them?
Root, Root ,Root for the Iranians. Do nothing to stop their nuclear program. No risk.
— brobert545 (@brobert545) March 10, 2026
Stop it and give the sleazy Democrats political ammo.
Media acts as the cheer squad. https://t.co/jfzobg5Lxd
When a member of the Seditious Six complains about Trump, you have to wonder whether he is saying what he believes, or what he needs to in order to push forward his color revolution.
Sen. Mark Kelly says that nothing has been accomplished in Iran from a "strategic perspective" after being pressed by CNN's Anderson Cooper.
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) March 10, 2026
He has to know how ignorant he sounds right now.
ZERO confidence in his voice, his posture, or his framing.
It's like he's delivering a… pic.twitter.com/nIFeMKznvC
I mean, really? If Trump stopped the war tomorrow, which he SHOULD NOT do by any means, it would still have accomplished quite a lot, even strategically. Iran is defanged for years to come. We should bomb the regime out of existence, but there is a strategic case to be made that a defanged Iranian regime is better than one gaining strength.
"You're witnessing right now [the] American empire's retreat from the Levant and the Middle East in general."
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) March 10, 2026
Lawrence Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the U.S. is at risk of losing its war on Iran, where… pic.twitter.com/FoayfR1iju
Lawrence Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the U.S. is at risk of losing its war on Iran, where it's already committed major war crimes.
"This is a war with long legs," adds Wilkerson. "Trump has completely misinterpreted it. The only one who's interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think he's ready to use a nuclear weapon."
Uh, no. This is the new line, coming from both ends of the ideological horseshoe: nuclear weapons will be deployed. We had the story yesterday that Trump had deployed the Looking Glass to the Middle East to start a nuclear war, which is stupid, and now there are a number of idiots who keep repeating this line to undermine support for the war.
After Trump said that Tucker is "Not MAGA," & "not smart," Tucker responsds by releasing an interview critisising Trump's war.
— H.A. Hazony (@HAHazony) March 8, 2026
Tucker allegeds that Trump wants American soldiers to "rape" Iranian women, and that Trump is "moving towards" using nuclear weapons in Iran. pic.twitter.com/pjTK8zeeFl
There is now an unholy alliance between radical leftists, Democratic politicians who desperately want Trump to fail, and antisemites on the left and the right who want this war to go badly.
"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. https://t.co/ZUQpI5AmUh
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) March 10, 2026
They are all rooting for failure.
BREAKING: Douglas Macgregor loses his marbles.
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) March 4, 2026
“China and Russia are providing satellite intelligence which accounts for some of the tremendous successes [of Iran] particularly in Israel, and our US bases. All of our bases have been destroyed. Our harbor installations are… pic.twitter.com/o32OOZTLxS
There are all sorts of people spinning scenarios in which Iran is actually going to win, or that they even wanted us to enter the war to destroy us over time.
US and Israel don’t understand the war they’re fighting.
— Patricia Marins (@pati_marins64) March 10, 2026
Iran is waging an almost perfect asymmetric war, absorbing the attacks, strategically rendering the surrounding bases unusable, destroying radars, and maintaining control of the Strait of Hormuz while still preserving its… https://t.co/EnFbwM3RsB
US and Israel don’t understand the war they’re fighting.
Iran is waging an almost perfect asymmetric war, absorbing the attacks, strategically rendering the surrounding bases unusable, destroying radars, and maintaining control of the Strait of Hormuz while still preserving its missile launch capability.
And it’s doing all of this after losing very little of its navy, air force, or overall arsenal, something we can easily verify by checking the visual evidence of losses.
The US and Israel are in an extremely difficult situation because they only know one kind of war: brute-force destruction. Now they’re facing a strategically well-positioned Iran that is fighting on its own terms and timeline.
What did Iran do? It focused on resilience against bombings and kept almost its entire arsenal in large underground bases that the US and Israel have already spent huge amounts of munitions trying to penetrate.
I’ll say this: so far, Iran has shown very little of what I know of its arsenal. It still has more than 20 models of aquatic drones that it hasn’t even put in the water yet.
They didn’t study Iran enough and severely underestimated it. Iran is a global leader in missiles and drones, alongside Russia and China.
The people in Washington were extremely reckless. You can be a complete madman in politics and still get away with it, but that doesn’t work in wars.
This is all a carefully built strategy for the global market to defeat the US, not Iran.
The false numbers from CENTCOM are being repeated by many Americans, but this propaganda doesn’t change the battlefield reality and isn’t degrading Iran any further.
"In other asymmetric wars lost by the US, tens of times the amount of bombs dropped on Iran were used. As I have already said here, no one studied those wars, much less the war in Ukraine, where 200,000 tons of missiles, bombs, and drones have already been launched without solving the problem. No, it’s not about bombs.
I see Iran very determined to continue the war, which creates a massive problem for the Americans. They now have to deal with the global market, pressure from the Gulf countries, internal political pressure, inflationary issues, and complications with China and Russia.
This is the conflict between raw firepower and strategy.
The basic problem with that argument is that Iran is a country, and its leadership is a regime, not an irregular force like the Viet Cong or the Taliban. They have infrastructure, a military with equipment that can be destroyed, and a leadership that has not been decimated but entirely wiped out at the highest levels.
I'm pretty sure no strategy included vaporizing multiple Supreme Leaders and top officials.
Just saying.
New York Times spoke to an engineer in Tehran who said many in the city were comfortable with U.S. bombings and that
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 10, 2026
“They are upset if there is a night without bombing, and fear the war might end while the regime remains. You can see this clearly."https://t.co/IYU3Kihf12 pic.twitter.com/xyr1bCMn1E
The war may still turn out badly, because wars sometimes do. But most of the commentary out there downplaying the success that we have seen is ridiculous propaganda. These same people thought Lloyd Austin was a model Secretary of Defense.
The epitome of weakness and incompetence.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 9, 2026
February 1, 2024. Iranian backed militia had just recently killed three American soldiers.
Def. Secretary Lloyd Austin says that we will respond sometime and then apologizes for taking leave without giving proper notice. Clown show. pic.twitter.com/mZHIoqgbJu
It will be a long time before we know the costs and benefits of the war, but many of the people whinging about it right now are being ridiculous or even lying. Few of them said much of anything when Biden got 13 people killed in his retreat from Afghanistan. Now they are acting as if the soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in a so-far amazingly successful effort have died in vain.
It's appalling. And for many, they are disrespecting our soldiers to satisfy their Trump hatred.
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