5thhorseman wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2026 3:52 pm
Mëds wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2026 2:52 pm
Bomb it.
Level it.
Pave it.
Haven't they already bombed the top 10,000 priority targets?
So now they'd be bombing targets 10,001 to 20,000. What's that, all the kebab shops?
Since the end of Second World War, the various military adventures of the United States have provided multiple examples of exactly what a wealthy military (and sometimes, industrial) super-power, usually with some degree of technological advantage, but with a nominal degree of democracy constraining government options, can and cannot do at various levels of commitment, against various types of opponents, on multiple types of terrain.
I have to believe that enough of the Pentagon has picked up on the pattern, and Kegsbreath can't fire all of them. So someone must have gotten over to Trump that they are at the limits of what conventional air strikes alone can do to an opponent like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I don't think he wants to go nuclear, (I like to hope that the order wouldn't be carried out), and I don't think he wants to commit ground forces. His ego won't let him accept a deal that he doesn't believe he can spin as better than what Obama previously had.
Thus the only option for Trump that I can see is to try to out-wait them, and hope that their domestic pressure rises faster than his. He may have already written off the mid-terms, and no longer care what happens.
From my perspective, this is all working out quite well. Trump has done more to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels than the greenest Democrat could have dared hope -- even with paying foreign companies not to build wind turbines. And in the mean time, Canada can extract maximum value for the hydrocarbons she sells to the world -- and the uranium she sells to replace them.
(Carney's plan to "make Canada an energy super-power" is politically slick. We already are, so it's going to be pretty tough not to succeed.)
