Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The war with Iran can't go on like this for ever
This tit-for-tat stuff can't go one for ever. At some time, those with a brain in their head will have to call a halt and suggest some way out of this nonsense. You can't bludgeon a whole country into submission. Well, at least not one like Iran. The Tehran regime has clearly decided it's not going to lose this one and will hang on regardless. It's an incredible lesson for the world's military superpower. Might doesn't always, in fact rarely, win the day. What we have at the moment with US Central Command carrying out more attacks every day and putting out statements saying the strikes are intended to "degrade" Iran's ability to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz, is all good and fine. But the strikes are NOT stopping Iran from responding with retaliatory missile and drone attacks on the poor Gulf states, and they are not making it safe for ships to go through the chokepoint. So, in other words, the daily/nightly strikes are destroying a lot of military hardware, but Iran seems to have an inexhaustible supply of weapons to fire at countries allied to the US. So, where is it going? Can this carry on for ever? No, of course not. What I want to know is this: what are Trump's military chiefs telling thir commander-in-chief? Do they just carry out his orders without offering any cautionary advice? Are they telling him that he is winning? It's very clear the US is not winning at the moment. So, why don't Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, and General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confront Trump and say they are getting nowhere? Because, they are afraid to do so. It's as simple as that. Just like the military chiefs in Moscow are afraid to tell Putin that he is losing the war in Ukraine.
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