Operation Economic Outcast (economic D-Day) will achieve what Operation Epic Fury failed to achieve—
Force Iran hardliners back to negotiate table and make a deal with significant concessions. That’s my prediction.
Now Bessent, after earning Trump’s trust, is taking over the leading role of the war. He is much smarter than Hegseth of a room temperature IQ.
In the end it’s the economy, stupid.
Replies to: “Operation Economic Outcast (economic D-Day) will achieve what Operation Epic Fury failed to achieve—”
Is this sarcasm?
Because we have had pretty damn tough sanctions on Iran for decades.
The mullahs don’t care how much their people suffer,
And the idea that we should be trying to bring 90 million people to the brink of starvation is awful policy. And it won’t work.
So I assume you were being sarcastic.
Should we ease sanctions on North Korea because their people are starving?
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To my knowledge this time is different. I could be wrong. For the record I’ll admit it if I’m wrong.
Yes, Iran has developed many ways against our sanctions. But this time we will cut off all the channels they used to against our sanctions. We know these channels very well.
Sanctions won’t work on extreme dictatorship countries or self sufficient countries. But Iran is not one of them. Of 2 pillars of Iran government, its civilian government is democratic. The opposition party in Iran is and has always been strong. Just check what happened in January of this year.
Uh…more sarcasm?
Iran is not democratic.
They have elections - but all candidates have to approved by the mullahs.
There are no civil rights and no unauthorized civil society.
They have a secret police and a religious police.
So I assume you are kidding again.
Stop changing my point. I didn’t say Iran is democratic. I said one part of its government, i .e.
its civilian government is democratic. Iran is a country of dual system of governance. Stop using your propaganda stuff on me.
Those are all reasons we should hope for liberation of the Iranian people.
We should have assisted their revolution before they slaughtered 30K brave protestors. We were late, and have made mostly stupid decisions since. It's too bad.
Iran will break any deal before the midterms. Their goal is to get Dems in power.
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We can’t win long military war with Iran, but we can win long economic war with them. Iran
Understands it. They don’t fear to have a long military war with us. They know, in a long military war, time is on their side. But it’s opposite in economic war. We don’t fear a long economic war. Time is on our side, not on Iran side. Iran understands it too. I don’t think they have luxury to wait after midterms. The longer economic war lasts, the worse Iran will get.
Bessent is brilliant. I hope he becomes Secretary of State in Vance administration one day.
When a regime has a stranglehold on their people, the only real way to remove them is to go in and
do it. That's a choice. It is not that we can't win, it is that it would be pointless and the populace would not even appreciate it. This is the muslim world.
So, I do agree with you that economic measures will work better....now that the nukes are off the table and they are suitably convinced that we have a POTUS willing to hurt them rather than appease them.
We had to act quickly before they got their weapon. There was not a good exit strategy, but I put that on the JCPOA people. Many of those people are now cheering for Iran (see conor).
Like one that takes 47 years, maybe?
Again, good sarcasm on Bessent. Brilliant! Good one.
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