[762236]

No air war has changed a regime. The US government knows this. Trump knows this and never had regime change as an objective. Why are you saying that regime change was an objective, and how do you think it was going to happen in an air war when no air war has caused a regime change before?

[ks2048]

> Trump knows this

This statement is very rarely true.

[soco]

Little correction: Trump has a different objective every second day, and at some point there was (also) regime change on the menu. Might come again, I don't know.

[whateveracct]

Trump was talking about the protests there and that the US would help them. And we kept killing Iranian leadership lol.

Why are you taking what the Trump admin says at face value, anyways? Are you still a fool after all these years? This is like "fool me a 10,000th time" by now haaha

[762236]

What he says matches to reality: that regime change isn't possible with an air war. Thus even if you don't listen to him, we know from prior experience that regime change is highly improbable. Every person educated about these things knows that.

[whateveracct]

The contemplated (and moved!) ground troops for weeks lol.

[762236]

If troops get deployed, it will no longer be an air war. Part of keeping it an air war is to achieve the original objectives, and getting Iran to think that troops are coming is a way to increase the probability of achieving those objectives. If you don't know how war, or game theory, works, why are you commenting on it?

[whateveracct]

i do understand, but the issue here is that the war was not sold or explained to us at home. which is equally important to a successful war.

[Pay08]

No air war has ever tried to change a regime. The fact of the matter is, we don't know what will happen next. There could very well be a civil war.