The Iran War Gets Weird || Mar. 22, 2026
Israel's missile defenses are failing right along with Kuwait's, Iran has struck out at UK-US military facilities far beyond what anyone thought was possible, and the American and (what's left of the) Iranian leadership are now opening threatening one another with war crimes. Welcome to the fourth week of the Iran War.
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I have not a clue why you keep trying to compare Donald Trump to a normal, do-nothing president. President Trump will do just about anything to protect America. You probably admitted to being wrong about the US won't be the police of the high-seas and I just missed it. Also, I'll add that I think your counseling for your TDS might have some beneficial effect.
according to the work by Richard Medhurst, he shows how the iron dome is actually a bunch of multi billion dollar radar devices that have been destroyed. Lack of interceptors or decimated early defense radar system? The damage against us and our allies is in the billions will be take a decade to recover from at this point. Never trust the media in a time of war,it is illegal for them to tell the truth.
Well then, LOL, the media will be quite consistent since they rarely tell the truth in peacetime anyway.
I am sure that the US bombing repressive regime infrastructure close to civilian populations is pretty far down the list of war crimes that need to be prosecuted, such as torture and kidnapping by the Russians and Chinese genocide, etc.
So, DJT just TACO'd again! There is a reason diplomatic speech in times of crisis is used. He has told so many lies and bragged about so much that no one knows what the plan is - and neither does he. Iran just ignores everything, and is working their plan, based on then strategic imperative that when your very existence is at stake, fight to the death. Iran has had that philosophy since Iraq attacked it just after the Ayatollahs took power. Faced with such resolve, it is no wonder that having such a weak leader surrounded by sycophants who tell the naked emperor how beautiful his clothes are, results in chaos.
This isn't checkers, maybe sort of like Chess, but closer to Poker, ie., you don't want to be predictable.
Apparently the EU cannot confirm as yet that Iran launched the missiles towards Diego Garcia. Tehran claims a false flag. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260321-iran-denies-responsibility-for-missile-attacks-on-diego-garcia/?amp
Whatever the EU knows you will know when you watch it on CNN
Does this change the math around nuclear + renewables?
Absolutely
Perhaps the most confusing aspect of this entire military conflict is not what targets have been bombed, but what targets have not. In his Truth Social address from February 28, President Trump cited how Iran's regime took over the United States embassy in 1979. Yet, while Iran's regime routinely bombs American embassies, President Trump has not bombed the American embassy in Tehran. Given the obvious symbolic value of bombing the American embassy in Tehran, this glaring omission is puzzling.
Whats the military advantage of "nice to have", purely symbolic targets?
Is there any chance that Iran's government directly threatened the life of President Trump in such a way that he thought the only way to defend himself from their death squads was to strike first? This scenario fits. Iran's government routinely threatens to torture and kill people because that is a core expression of what it is. And it is a normal practice for Mafia dons to attack preemptively if they get threatened like this. To even touch a made man invites death. Although this scenario is admittedly speculation, it does explain how Trump could decide to bomb Iran while refusing to explain why.
President Trump has apparently not presented any rationale for this military adventure that he had not summarily rejected in the past. Just as Woodrow Wilson had campaigned on “American First” and “He Kept Us Out Of War” back in 1916, Donald Trump based his campaign for president precisely on not doing anything like this. What conditions changed on February 28 that did had not existed six months earlier? Six years earlier? Forty-six years earlier? I would like to know.
Iran's not going to stop Until Trump is out of office and the US is paying them back for damages
Israel's been committing war crimes the entire time. Eye for eye.
Iran killed 30,000 of their own civilians. They direct their missiles and drones at civilian targets. Israel and the US have been attacking military targets. Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas embed their soldiers and weapons amongst their civilians. Israel uses their weapons to protect civilians. Their foes use their civilians to protect their weapons.
Claims in social media that Iran states didn’t fire the missiles. You stated that you did not know that Iran had that capacity. If not Iran, who?
Peter, I'm pretty sure that if we are proposing to take out civilian power, it is not to harm civilians, it is to harm the regime, either because the power also is used by the various tentacles of the regime for war or to suppress the public, or because we believe it may aid in taking down the regime for some other or related reason. If civilians go without power as a result, that may be unfortunate but that's a consequence of the regime we are at war with.
Attacking civilian infrastructure will harm civilians and is a war crime. Doesn't matter what excuses you have.
War Crimes? Pfft. Nobody seems to care about war crimes. Lack of inventory reminds me of the PPP during Covid. Naw, we don't need that either. FAFO? Lack of long term planning and preparation.
I’m curious if the United States has done anything well here. I’ll hang up and listen.
why did you sprinkled your TDS :/
I'm sure you meant Deranged Trump Syndrome, but that's okay.
For me this conflict with Iran will hopefully get US planners of the upcoming conflict with China to sit up and take serious note of how fast defensive munitions are exhausted in the modern era of continued and sustained drone attacks. Let alone the required missile defense when dealing with China I also note the very much on display hubris by what remains of the Iranian political cadre. I personally feel Trump and Israel, right from the very start should have had a policy of sending Iran back to the pre-industrial age, when dealing with such a rabid organization, only bringing them to their knees, will have any hope of a desired outcome.
The Garcia missiles are probably from either China,Russia or N. Korea in exchange for oil or gold or tech help.
Dozens of people in israel injured. Not killed. No need to exaggerate
And it was only one missile--not "lots of hits." Peter, you usually stick to the data.
For me, this is just a continuation of the lack of planning by our illustrious current administration. I remember thinking of all the ways that Iran could and would cut the Straite of Hormuz if threatened. A Irainian sea baby drone was the 1st thing I thought of. A drone with a 100kg warhead and a IR seeker was the second. Mines where the 3rd. Vast disappointment on my side. We may very well have to put down 5 divisions of troops and march over 7 mountain ridges to end this.
When launching 15 missiles a day, each with a 92% chance of being intercepted, the probability of two or more interception failures is 34%. Meaning — once every three days. cut the crap peter, Iranian missiles are non accurate crap thats why they shot cluster munitions. law of war is always one sided with u guys. and also, israel tell you for years iran is lying about everything, you just dont listen
You mean like Israel has been lying about their war crimes in Gaza and their not so covert attempts to annex the Westbank for the last 75 years????
Iran denied they bombed Diego Garcia. Wouldn't they take credit if it was them? Isn't the more likely explaination a US/Isreal plot to pull Europe into the war?
no, its stupid. its very easy to track where a missile is shot from. they watch how you westers idiots thinks and they feed you misinformation. you guys are under the worst foreign influencing campaign ever created. tucker and Candace is feeding you anti American lies straight from russia and china
I predict that soon Orange Man will follow his pattern of blaming someone else for the failures of this war, blaming them for giving him bad advise. Then someone will be fired. Names on the chopping block will be Hegseth, Gabbard, or Rubio. Rubio is the smartest of all of them and Orange Man doesn't like smart people, so I give it over 50/50 he goes.
There was no deaths at the attack in Dimona and Arad. i24 news: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-nearly-200-injured-in-dimona-and-arad-after-iranian-missile-attack How much time is between the record of the video to upload?
At what point do we pass on to the next level of the escalation ladder, and what does that look like? If Iran starts mass murdering middle east civilians by blowing up desalination plants, I would hope that the international community would finally agree that the IRGC is a global threat, and form the coalition that we should have had in place before any of this started. We've already passed the point where everyone could declare victory and go home, if that ever existed. Now, the IRGC must be destroyed in detail, or we'll have to deal with a vengeful and newly nuclear-armed Iran. That won't happen without significant numbers of boots on the ground. The only options seem to involve expansions of the war.
I agree! Doesn't matter if Iran was an imminent threat or not. Doesn't matter whether Trump had a plan or not. Doesn't matter that Europe's feelings are hurt. What matters is that we are committed now. We are dealing with a desperate death cult that wouldn't hesitate to use a nuclear weapon if they had one. They would martyr themselves and their people in a heartbeat. Anyone who believes we can negotiate ourselves out of this mess is deluding themselves.
I can already see a talking poignant for the Democrat presidential debates in early 2028. Which candidates will turn Trump and Hegseth over to the Hauge for war crime prosecutions?
I guessing to no one who thinks they have a real chance of winning will promise to. After all, look at all the Democrat presidents who sheltered Henry Kissinger.
Seems like the West should put even more effort now in EVs and renewable energy.
Or nuclear?!
Is there a way to calculate how much it cost US/Isreal each leader they have killed? Example, how much did it cost to kill the Ayatollah? How much did it cost to kill individual IRGC top officials? A break down basically.
Time to setup a production at scale plant to make the Ukrainian Drone Interceptors
The real revolution we need is in the USA and Israel atp. Come on people, by the power of ozempic, get off your ass and jail this pedofelon orangutan already!
It should be no surprise, what so ever, that all sides are willing to violate international law. I mean, come on. Hegseth said the US will give no quarter to Iran. Iran is willing to kill their own people (protesters). A while back I asked if Iran might consider using its nuclear stockpile to whip up a dirty bomb. Seems an easier approach is to just target Isreals nuclear weapons storage sites. Wonder if they got details of those locations from the Russians? All very interesting and not expected to end well.
With this, would anyone in the military following orders to bomb civilian energy plants be liable under the umcj?
With autonomous drones, who is responsible? Button, button, who pushed the button? Who programmed the targeting data? Who supplied the targeting data? Who authorized that target in the first place? AI will of course get the blame.
Never underestimate your foe.
The Straight of Hormuz is going to stay closed until Iran says otherwise except for ships it permits passage. Dedollarization will accelerate faster the longer this stays so. The orange felon's 48 hour threat is a sign of absolute desperation as THAT threshold is when the world economies begin to collapse and he knows it. So does Iran. Israel doesn't give a shit either and they will not stop so long as they think they have the Usanian support they've existed under. Unless a specific very few die very quickly the world will see millions die because of them. Time to choose.
Peter, I think you’re overstating certainty here. We don’t actually know interceptor stockpiles they’re classified, constantly shifting, and supported by allied resupply. So saying countries are “close to out” is an inference, not a fact. You're not showing us your math on this. I would love to see it. It could give more context to what you're talking about. You’re also isolating one variable. Systems like Iron Dome are just one layer in a broader, adaptive defense network. When one layer is stressed, tactics shift it’s not a simple depletion equation. And respectfully, we’ve seen this before your early calls during the Russian invasion of Ukraine leaned heavily on confident projections that didn’t fully play out in real time. That’s not a knock on your big-picture analysis, which is strong but it does show the limits of high-confidence claims in fast-moving situations. The pressure is real. The certainty isn’t.
The opposite of interceptors running low or out is the Gulf countries are willingly letting their oil industry to get hit. What is more valuable that they are sacrificing them for?
I'm all for giving this administration enough rope to hang themselves with. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but maybe we can begin moping this whole mess up after the midterms. If Israel runs out of interceptors by then... OH WELL! 🤷♂️
So after this, we can lock up trump, Netanyahu, and whoever in Iran for war crimes? Okay, cool.
Sent then to Iran as a goodwill in negotiations. We had JCPOA if he didn't broke it, Iran would be very unlikely to help Russia in Ukraine. Even day before this was started, negotiators were saying that negotiations looked very good and Iran agreed to many conditions. Those MF made the whole world less safe and now almost guarantees that Iran will have nukes. They would be stupid not to after trusting the West and being backstabbed. We can thank Bush 2 for North Korea and now trump for Iran.
Marco Rubio knew they had that range.
He doesn't even know his own shoe size.
Yeah I'm not surprised in the least that their space program turned out to have the ability to immediately become a long range missile, that sounds like a designed feature, not something they pushed out in the last moment. Heck, a fair bit of the US space program were making missiles before joining it.
Russia's Sputnik was put into orbit using their newly developed long-range military ballistic missile.
Is Iran’s strategy to throw a whole lot of low level drones and missiles at Israel et al, forcing the Israelis, Americans and Arab states to use up their inventories of interceptors, and target launch sites for these weapons, then attack with more sophisticated weaponry (and more deadly like cluster bombs) when they have a much better chance of landing? And of course, these weapons are bring launched from previously undisclosed sites? That would indicate that Iran has a well developed defense plan and the motivation that they are fighting for their lives, as per Sun Tzu - when all else has been done, fight to the death. After all, what hope is there for any member of the Revolutionary Guard or the other oppressors except victory or paradise?
The fact that Iran has been very specifically preparing for this for 40 years says that the conflict is nowhere close to finished and the repercussions will last generations, if not forever, in human civilization. If we survive these imbeciles.
Impeach the war criminal now!
Forget it. The Muricans are impotent. He was already a convicted felon before becoming POTUS again.
If Iran starts targeting the Arab desalination plants, many of which provide 100% of the drinkable water in multiple countries, all bets are off.
But if the GCC falls Israel can expand it's territory to the greater Israel land size. After the USA loses and leaves the middle east altogether. So long term great for Israel?