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We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Because they don't want to "win"...
Bibi and trump both, they don't want a victory, they want a forever war they can use as justification to cancel elections.
Look at the people responsible for stopping terror attacks, they're trying to make one happen thru sheer incompetence if nothing else. trump is desperate for some type of "attack on America" because he expects a 9/11 style bump in approval, when it's likely to be the opposite reaction if it happens.
Bibi just wants Iran broken and bleeding. That means nobody else can stop his settling program, aka conquer and colonize the Middle East.
Trump is just there because he thought it would be easy.
They also want the US nose bloodied as much as possible so they throw up our hands, tell them the middle east is their problem now and give them boat loads of cash to "fix the problem".
He doesn't do anything without there being something in it for him personally. We don't know what he's getting out of it yet, it could be blackmail threats, Saudi money, or something else.
While I understand the hypothesis, I am not sure it is working out that way.
Although Trump is trying desperately to find a way to subvert the elections, given the decentralized State based nature of it, it's going to take more than an external war with Iran to justify an internal canceling of the elections. The SAVE Act is an attempt at nationalizing the Elections, but while it's moving it lacks the capacity to jump the biggest hurdle in the Senate. Any Executive attempt at nationalizing the elections has very little judicial basis, which would make it hard to hold up in court. It's dynamic and complex, but it's not as simple as his declaration of marshal law.
That is not to say your sentiment isn't correct. If he can find a way, or his backers can find a way, they will try and do it.
On the second point, Trump didn't get a 9/11 style bump. Indeed it seems to have gone almost the opposite way based on polling. Given inflation and other economic impacts, it might cause more defections before it helps him.
What it has done is push Epstein out of the US new. This too might have been part of the calculus. It is still rippling through the UK and other political systems, but the US has put it aside for now.
If trump was constrained by a system of checks and balances, sure.
But I think there's a strong chance he "declares" them cancelled, Dem states hold them and Red states don't...
And then we see what happens on 1/6.
Like, we can't just expect them to play by the rules when there entire ethos is "fuck you, make me".
Someone's gonna have to make them... Whether thats words or actions is what we need to find out.
They want the prophecies
American Christian extremists do...
But their prophecy is for a Jewish ethnostate to start a war that becomes Armageddon...
And to lose that war at which point the rapture happens and everyone globally gets raptured before Armageddon spreads world wide and into "Christian nations".
Bibi and Jewish extremists want to conquer the world.
The alliance won't hold together. At some point the Christian extremists will abandon Israel to bring about the next step; the destruction of Israel. Because their prophecy requires the destruction of Israel.
None of them are working towards the same goal, they're just temporarily working towards the same step, and when they reach it their plans diverege.
With the current war in Iran, the Christian extremists might move to the next step any day. We could see a sudden and drastic reversal in how Republicans treat Israel any day now.