So I’ve been thinking about this for the past few days and now that the US has actually struck Iran…I have to ask what is the US’s and Israel’s plans here?

Israel is obvious, strike Iran until the US gets involved because Israel has to escalate the conflict to survive. But the US plan is going to be…what? There’s the obvious boots on the ground answer, which might be the case, but…why do it like this? With Iraq for instance, the US didn’t go in Milquetoast (from my memory at least). Obviously Iraq was a different beast but the point still stands. Why waffle about with these feigned feigns and then just say you struck the nuclear sites. Is it to goad a response from Iran?

There’s another option, which is to stick with bombing and use insurgent groups, a la Syria and Libya. But again, Iran is a different beast, and the elephant in the room here is that Iran isn’t going through a rebellion of any sort.

The last option is to just start Carpet bombing Iran until they can’t fight back anymore. Honestly I see this as the most likely option but…its just a really dumb plan. I mean sure it would complete the goal of (maybe) knocking Iran out of the middle eastern conflict, but it’d really be the least effective. You risk planes that are already getting shot down, strategic bombing doesn’t really work anyway, and when you’re done you don’t gain anything while also wasting a bunch of resources you’re rapidly running out of.

So looking at all of these i really can’t figure out which direction this is going to go