greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 13^th, 2026 at 7:21pm:

tallowood wrote on Jul 14^th, 2026 at 4:29pm:


Surely you mean the Islamic Republic of Japan's city.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 14^th, 2026 at 4:16pm:


I think it's a smart move. They've got the space for a few mass graves too.

You could bulldoze a few in with Ivana, she won't care.

Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Jul 14^th, 2026 at 3:24pm:


Silly paki bollocks, gobber.


Washington needs a strategy directed against the political foundations of the regime itself. This calls for economic warfare, coalition management and sustained military pressure, not another cycle of airstrikes followed by negotiations. In effect, I am arguing that American strategy must force regime change in Iran. It is the only way to achieve the already announced goals of renouncing nuclear weapons, destroying missiles and ending support of terrorist groups.

Here is what I suggest President Trump should do:

1. Order a one-week strategic review focused on how to defeat the IRGC politically, economically and militarily, not merely how to strike Iranian targets. Trump needs to listen to strategic advice and define what victory means before embarking on military operations.

2. Deploy Secretary of State Marco Rubio to talk to the Europeans, listen to their views, understand their needs, and press them to be involved in the Iran operation. Then send Rubio to the Middle East, asking the Saudis and Emiratis to reconcile their differences and support a more definitive resolution of the war.

3. Explain the war’s purpose to the American people in a formal address. This means making it clear the war will last some time and why the IRGC must be removed from power.

4. Take physical control of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal. Squeeze harder on sanctions to make sure no money is getting through to the regime in Tehran.

5. Build an international naval coalition to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz. The US will undoubtedly do the heavy lifting – because only it can –and this may mean some military boots on the ground on Qeshm Island at the top of the Strait.

6. Tell Beijing that if it wants a positive relationship with the US, it must cease overt and covert support for the Iranian regime.

7. Ask the Israelis to participate in military operations designed to destroy the IRGC leadership. This needs to be a central military priority.

To get to this outcome, the US must bring the Iranian economy to its knees, ending the IRGC’s capacity to pay for its war. And the US needs to destroy the IRGC’s leadership, creating at least the potential for other, less radicalised leaders to emerge.

Kharg Island is a vital target because it is the single most important outlet for Iranian oil exports. It needs to be controlled not (as Trump has regularly said) destroyed. It doesn’t need to be forcefully taken, just surrounded and cut off. Control of Kharg gives Trump one asset even the IRGC values.

The toughest military decision would be to occupy part of Qeshm Island at the narrowest part of the Strait of Hormuz. It’s at the centre of IRGC attempts to control shipping. So far, the US has been unable to control Iranian attacks on shipping by using air and sea power alone. Trump needs clarity from military planners about how to deal with this challenge.

Because the Strait of Hormuz is a global economic artery, any successful strategy toward Iran will require allied support, particularly from Europe and the Gulf states. This is the right moment for a serious discussion between allies. The Europeans, with France and the UK in the lead, understand the central importance of the Strait of Hormuz. Rubio needs to gain their support.

A good international citizen like Australia should help too. It is fundamentally in our interests that Trump recover his position and set out a strategy for America and its allies to prevail over Iran.

Whether Trump adopts such a strategy is now the defining question of his presidency. If he does not, Iran’s greatest victory will be showing that the US no longer has the patience to prevail against a determined adversary.

Strategic failure over Iran would absorb what remains of Trump’s presidency, dominate his legacy and undermine America’s position in the world. The President’s downcast mood at the NATO summit suggests he understands what is at stake.

Peter Jennings


Iranian theocracy is the last and most significant obstacle to normalising the ME. After four decades now is the time to sweep it away.

Frank wrote on Jul 15^th, 2026 at 9:55am:


Sorry, I missed this one.

Sorry, gang, we invaded Iran to blow the Epstein files off the fake news. But that's okay, we're now going to implement a strategy.

That could work, no?

No no, DL already said that, dear. It was back on Easter Sunday, do you recall?

Quote:


The one thing you're missing, crucial to anybody moving on from here, is the admission: president Donald J Trump has created the biggest foreign debacle ever.

This is far worse than Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which had Congressional approval and, after the UN voted it down, a Coalition of the Willing.

This is far worse than Korea, Guatemala, Panama or any other excursion the US has taken part in over the past century. It's even worse than the covert action that started this business to begin with: the CIA-led overthrow of Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected Iranian PM, in 1951.

This one's up there with Nam, but even that debacle had Congressional authorisation, a coalition of allies and an invite from the Diem regime in South Nam.

Until the US owns up to its hubris, there can be no meaningful coalitions, deals, partnerships or strategizing. No one's going to work with your DL's minions on this one. Even the minions are just playing along, standing behind the Resolute Desk in their suits, their hands covering their balls.

How could Little Marco possibly work constructively with the Gulf Arabs or European allies? Your DL's undermined and sabotaged every US alliance in the world. The only workable partnerships are the countries the Trump Org's doing business in, like Kazakhstan.

Even the Saudis and Qataris have soured. DL won't be getting any free planes from now on, I can assure you. He's sent the entire Gulf broke.

Europe's not talking. Sanchez and Meloni are expressing their outright contempt. As for us, We followed Uncle into Iraq, Afghanistan, Nam and Korea, but not even obsequious old Oz is touching this one.

The only way to start on a solution is to fess up. We totally stuffed up, Uncle has to say. We're sorry. 

We killed the mullahs. We killed the schoolgirls. We declared war on Iran and caused the biggest oil shock in history.

Until the Septics say that, everything in your silly old seven-point plan is mere wishful thinking.

Allah Uakbar, innit.

tallowood wrote on Jul 15^th, 2026 at 2:26pm:


The only ones jerking off to your AI porn are the bots, dear.

We decide who comes to our country and the manner in which they come, no?

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The ship sunk by the Iranians