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‘Victory’ In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

You probably wonder what the end of this war will look like. It won\u2019t look like V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, with sailors kissing girls they met five seconds ago<\/strong>. Our country is way too divided and disturbed with politically-inflected mental illness for love to bloom in the streets like it did then. If you happen to catch the glum crew on CNN you will detect that they really want this operation to fail because, you know, Trump.<\/p>\n

Terminally Depressed on CNN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The war will be over when Iran loses the ability to spray missiles and drones all over the place<\/strong> \u2014 and notice how they are pouring it on the Emirate states, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and even Azerbaijan, for Gawdsake, turning would-be bystanders into pissed-off additional enemies they need like a hole in the head.<\/p>\n

At some point they will run out of ordnance, or the will to roll them out of the supposed 10,000 bat caves their weapons are stashed in.<\/strong> Our side apparently has an uncanny knack for seeing the launchers creep into daylight and efficiently blowing them up. Creates a disincentive to even think about launching. Of course, Iran might have some spectacular last-ditch thingie they can unleash to horrify the world \u2014 perhaps a \u201cdirty\u201d bomb that uses the 460 kilos of 60-percent enriched uranium they bragged about at one of the last negotiation sessions before the war with Witkoff and Kushner. Standing by on that.<\/p>\n

But, at some point a week or so hence, a stillness will fall upon the earth and sky above Iran, and that will be all she wrote for sheer havoc. Victory will not look much like anything. Just that stillness. The body politic in Iran is another matter. Expect awful turmoil.<\/strong> Iran\u2019s command structure is shattered. Officials don\u2019t dare pick a room in some building to meet in<\/strong>. The Internet is down and most communication with it. Nobody knows who is really in charge, and nobody may be in charge, not for quite a long time to come.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope we have the patience to let the Iranians sort out their own governing structure, and that it will be made up of people who are not insane, not fanatics of the martyrdom cult that has ruled the place for fifty years<\/strong>. It\u2019s probably not part of the US plan to slaughter the Revolutionary Guard, or <\/span>Sepah<\/em>, the chief apparatus of despotic control in the country. Or the B<\/span>asij<\/em>, (S\u00e2zm\u00e2n-e Basij-e Mostaz\u2019afin, which means \u201cOrganization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed\u201d), an auxiliary volunteer paramilitary militia that acts as the \u201cmorality police\u201d and cracks down on dissent. Hundreds of thousands are employed by these groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might imagine circumstances in which the members of those dastardly outfits decide to peel away from them, sensing a loss of legitimacy and danger in remaining on-board. Surely, a lot of Iranians will have blood in their eyes, looking for scores to settle, just as the people took revenge on members of the Shah\u2019s secret police, the <\/span>Savak,<\/em> after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Even now with the bombs still falling in Tehran (perhaps even because of them), many ordinary Iranians are dancing in the streets. You must suppose there is massive opposition to the regime. But first, chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why would we feel any necessity to put \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in there?<\/strong> Why expose American troops to the factional fighting that is apt to break out, as it did in Iraq? Did we not learn the lessons of Fallujah? Wouldn\u2019t it be enough that Iran just loses its ability to fire weapons at anyone? Loses its ability to mess with shipping in the Persian Gulf? And loses its ability to foment mischief in other countries, including any ideological influence it might still have, or any financial mojo for sponsoring terrorism? Can we not just stand by and let the Iranians figure out their own future?<\/p>\n

Try imagining a peaceful Iran not bent on exporting Jihad (just like you might imagine a peaceful Ukraine, not making itself a problem for the rest of the world). Forgive the clich\u00e9, but Iran (a.k.a. Persia), is an old and durable culture, with a highly educated population, one of the world\u2019s largest oil-and-gas reserves, and plenty of other resources. Iran could <\/strong><\/span>be somebody<\/em>. It doesn\u2019t have to be a bum with a one-way ticket to Palookaville.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As for our own country, too many people here are busy wolfing down the black pills with their Adderall and their Starbucks iced lavender cream chai. <\/strong>It\u2019s actually possible that there is a satisfactory outcome to this Iran operation. Would that disappoint you \u2014 as it apparently disappoints the glum crew at CNN? As with Iran, it doesn\u2019t pay to be insane, and something close to half of America is insane. That perturbation is mostly lodged in the American Left these days, the Democratic Party, devoted to a long list of ideas and propositions at odds with reality and locked into a strange willful hysteria that regards any kind of good faith as poison. That is exactly why we can\u2019t have clean elections. How about fixing that?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 03\/06\/2026 – 20:55<\/span><\/p>\n

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