I mean, he’s not wrong when he says we haven’t really started hitting them hard. Now that the Brits are coming into this on our side (good job, Hezbollah), we can launch from Diego Garcia without offending them. That opens the door to B-2s already nearby, and, with aerial refuelling… B-52s.
That will be hitting them hard. I hope he’s not going to saturation bombing. If he does, Tehran’s gonna make Gaza look like the pile of dust and detritus you get when you sweep the kitchen floor.
Imagine that.
I mean, I can’t imagine why Israel would want a nation 10x their size that’s sworn to destroy them to be destabilized…
What-the-Fuck?
When will we hear the GOP response? “You should move to Spokane.”
Idaho loves to boast about its low taxes and FREEDUMB. But no Medical Schools. (I am not counting the College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Idaho’s provider for years, for anything difficult? Spokane. Or Seattle.
WWAMI!
At least I will have my fond memories of interesing places I saw and more than decent folks I met and stayed with (out of their generosity to a traveler) in Iran in 1970.
“Big one is coming soon”
Cardiac, one hopes.
I would not want to be in Tehran right now
What’s flight time from Diego Garcia to Tehran?
Google says 5 hrs +/- and refuel midair for B52’s
I hate war
The 52’s will be coming from the US, so if they go, they’ll go the day before.
Via ABCnews
Hegseth did not rule out the possibility of U.S. boots on the ground.
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Retribution.??
Blathering from a drunk.
Ok, “new paradigm” is going too far. But the use of drones means new battlefield realities, like the obsolescence of cavalry, the lethality of the machine gun, the obsolescence of the battleship etc etc. I don’t think our leadership, including Trump, wants an actual invasion with American troops on the ground, drone warfare would change our tactical approach would it not?
My big concern is that Trump has developed a taste for military operations (from his comfy seat in MaL) and seeing how he can project his power he’ll continue doing it. Cuba next? Will he launch a nuke somewhere?
The POTUS is supposed to carry a card with serial numbers on it. He can choose his “go code” for nukes from pool side or his golf cart.
It would change how we should approach situations and what tools we use, yes. I don’t think the Iranians have anything even close to resembling Ukraine’s autonomous firing point systems, though.
They did invent and do build the Shaheed drone they supplied to Russia. Our new “one way” drone is a copy of theirs. Hopefully we put decals on 'em so the Kuwaiti folks don’t shoot them down like they do our jets.
Update…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/02/us-iran-war-latest-news-israel-strikes-lebanon/
"Donald Trump said America was “knocking the crap” out of Iran and a “big wave” of strikes was still to come.
Speaking to CNN, the US president suggested the strikes that killed Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and other high-ranking officials in the early hours of Saturday were just the start of his military campaign.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr Trump told CNN."
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Speaking for myself as darr… I hate war.
They did. But as I’ve been pointing out since the Shaheed debut’d, these ‘loiter-and-kamikaze’ drones aren’t actually anything new, either. They’re just jet-powered cruise missiles with the ability to wait before striking, once launched. They bring operational flexibility, not any real new capability.
As should everyone.
And, also, wrong. “Strategic strikes,” meaning a nationwide bombing campaign lasting three days so far and expected to last some weeks,” are a war.
Informally? Sure, why not.
Technically, we haven’t had a war since 1945.
So when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they weren’t “waging war”, it was just a “strategic strike”. It was those over-zealous Americans who turned it into a war! 
EDIT: I see @bcgister beat me to the Pearl Harbor reference…
What, Pete thinks we deserve retribution for the Iranian’s occupying our embassy in ‘retribution’ for our thowing out their elected leadership and empowering the Shah in ‘retribution’ for Mossadegh’s nationalization of the oil industry?
Or, is it just another pretext to excite some jingoism and stir up some anti-Iranian sentiment in suppot of a policy otherwise little connected to those historical antecedents? (ed.)
I am going to buy or take over all of the Block Busters!