It's smart for the US to start clearing out the mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Drag out the peace negotiations and if they don't bear fruit, at least we can establish a strong foot hold.
While our country is at war, our airports are a mess, DHS is not funded, and our elections are not secure, Lindsey Graham is wandering around Disney World with a bubble wand. This is an image that should live in infamy.
IRAN SITREP: Messaging
The disciplined communications strategy coming out of the Pentagon right now is unlike anything I have seen in my decades of watching this institution, and I have seen a lot (especially leaks).
@SecWar Hegseth and General Dan Caine are operating at a level this country desperately needed. They have established unified command, a clear message, zero leaks, zero backstabbing, and zero globalist interference. These are warfighters leading warfighters, and it shows.
Personally, credit has to go to the great communications team led by @SeanParnellUSA & @SeanParnellASW
The orchestration to remain on message with the @POTUS and the WH team has been essential to save lives and to ensure the American people hear the truth. @PressSec
Agree with this war or not, this is what right looks like when you put the right people in the right seats at the right moment in history.
Make no mistake, this is a moment in history. What @SecWar and CJCS Caine are building is a full restoration of warrior culture and America First national defense and national security.
When a nation remembers who it is and finds the courage to defend it, nothing in this world can stop it.
God bless our warriors.
@RealDonaldTrump@JDVance
“He’s setting us up for world dominance for generations to come.”
In just over a minute, Batya Ungar-Sargon cut straight through the noise on President Trump’s strikes on Iran, exposing the multi-decade chess game he’s playing.
UNGAR-SARGON: “To me, the thing that really stands out, most importantly is that nobody has come to the Islamic Regime’s defense.”
“Not Russia, not China.”
“We thought we were facing this great axis of evil, uniting to create a multipolar universe in which the United States was no longer a superpower.”
“And that turned out to be absolutely false.”
“The larger picture is how the president is protecting the United States and positioning us for global dominance.”
“He is picking off our adversaries, one by one, isolating them from each other and isolating them from their oil.”
“Remember that 20% of China’s oil came from either Venezuela or Iran.”
“I mean, how are the Chinese supposed to take Taiwan now—minus 20% of their oil supply?”
“I’m calling it the locked-in presidency.”
“Every action he takes has not one, but two, three, or four strategic advantages to strengthen the United States, to make us stronger, safer, and more prosperous.”
DECODE: Trump's post reads like a control-system message, not a headline... it is a systems cue that the coordination layer has been touched, and the rest of the machine is about to reveal itself by how it rebalances... there is a lot here, hold tight...
Start with his opening claim... “Khamenei is dead” functions like a phase shift marker, because when the apex node is removed or even perceived as removed, every subordinate node must rapidly choose a new alignment... in these systems, perception becomes operating reality before paperwork catches up...
Then notice the framing choice... he does not lead with territory, conquest, or ideology, he leads with justice, victimhood, and a moral ledger, because the goal is legitimacy across many audiences at once, especially the Iranian public that has been forced to live inside a hostage narrative for decades...
The next line is the real tell... “Unable to avoid our intelligence and highly sophisticated tracking systems” is a public statement of omnipresent reach... WE SEE YOU, WE SEE YOU ALL... it is meant to collapse the protective myth inside the security state, the myth that leaders are hidden, insulated, untouchable... you see, when that myth collapses, loyalty stops being protection and starts being exposure...
“Working closely with Israel” is not just attribution, it is a mutual-lock statement... it says we are running one fused stack together, shared sensors, shared targeting logic, shared persistence, which increases reach while also binding Israel into the same accountability web...
Once you declare that coupling out loud, neither side can later claim distance, and every country watching understands the gap is closing... decoys lose shelter, proxies lose insulation, and deniability stops functioning as a shield anywhere the old fog-based playbook depended on separation... Israel is "locked in"...
Now watch how quickly he pivots into internal fracture... “We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces no longer want to fight and are looking for immunity"...
That sentence is an invitation wrapped in an intelligence flex... it is designed to create a stampede effect inside the ranks, because once a few believe exits are real, every actor starts calculating survival instead of loyalty...
“Immunity now, later they only get death” is the timed off ramp... it creates a deadline without needing a calendar, it turns the middle layer into the decisive layer...
It tells captains, colonels, unit commanders, police chiefs, and bureaucrats that the window is early, and that waiting converts them into the sacrificial glue of a collapsing regime... now to mold the options...
Then he introduces the preferred transition shape... “IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots"... that is not random phrasing... it is a model for how the coercive apparatus can be repurposed into a national restoration story, so that the inevitable power vacuum is filled by integration instead of revenge cycles...
Notice the word “unit"... he is speaking to cohesion as the scarce resource... a nation reconstitutes when enough people agree on one chain of command, one public story, one legitimacy claim...
Key: That is why the post keeps pointing to the people of Iran, even while applying pressure to the system that has used them...
The destruction language matters too... “In only one day, very much destroyed, even obliterated"... that is psychological warfare aimed at the remaining loyalist core... it broadcasts that the infrastructure of coordination has been hit, and that the cost of resisting will rise faster than the capacity to coordinate resistance...
Finally, “heavy and pinpoint bombing will continue” tells you the operating mode... this is not presented as occupation, it is presented as sustained disruption of the regime’s ability to re-form, the nodes that enable command, retaliation, repression, and proxy throughput...
When you map it as a control system, the objective reads clean... remove the boogeyman generator, drain the proxy funding and command spine, offer defections a credible path, and let the nation re appear once the interruption loses its coordination...
That is why the word “peace” is capitalized... in this frame, peace is not a feeling, peace is a throughput outcome... less terror as an export product, less destabilization as a business model, and less need for permanent war narratives to keep the machine funded and justified...
@NYCMayor You completely missed the mark. This was never a war against the Iranian people. It was a war against the oppressive regime that had been killing us and other countries, directly and by proxy since the 80s. We want Iran to be free!
@KamalaHarris Stop, he is doing exactly what needs to be done. While past administrations tried to "negotiate", Trump has realized that it is impossible with these terrorists. Had you, or someone else who didnt have the fortitude to take Iran, we would have had bigger problems in years to come
@AstroNoodleCat@SecWar No immediate threat? Iran has been behind proxy wars against the United States since the 80s. They have funded Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollahs attacks on us and other countries. Not to mention, every day they grew closer to a nuclear weapon is an immediate threat.
Overnight, on President Trump’s orders, the Department of War commenced OPERATION EPIC FURY — the most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history.
The Iranian regime had their chance, yet refused to make a deal — and now they are suffering the consequences. For almost fifty years, Iran has targeted and killed Americans, always seeking the world’s most powerful weapons to further their radical cause. Last night, unlike any previous president, President Trump began dealing with this cancer.
We will not tolerate powerful missiles targeting the American people. Those missiles will be destroyed, along with Iran’s missile production. The Iranian navy will be destroyed. And, as President Trump has said his entire life, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
The United States did not start this conflict, but we will finish it. If you kill or threaten Americans anywhere in the world — as Iran has — then we will hunt you down, and we will kill you.
Our warriors are the best in the world, and they are fully unleashed to achieve our objectives. May God’s providence protect them in this vital mission.