TTowards the end of 2002, America had begun building up its forces in the Persian Gulf. The reasoning behind this was to combat the dictatorial regime in Iraq, as they were said to have had weapons of mass destruction. This was a highly contentious time, as people around the world were divided between invading Iraq to overthrow a dictatorial regime, while others were worried that America will become bogged down in a conflict for nothing. One of the most compelling arguments comes from an unlikely source, Bernie Sanders, who said that  “Mr. Speaker, I don’t think any member of this body disagrees that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant, a murderer, and a man who has started 2 wars. He is clearly someone who cannot be trusted or believed. The question, Mr. Speaker, is not whether we like Saddam Hussein or not, the question is whether he represents an imminent threat to the American people and whether a unilateral American invasion of Iraq will do more harm than good.” Now, to be clear, Bernie Sanders is a commie who is wrong about everything, and should never be allowed in power, as was outlined last episode, but, even a broken clock is right twice a day. The point is, the United States should not wage wars beyond it’s borders unless, A, the enemy is a direct threat to the American people and the United States, or it directly advances our interests with no major side effects. For example, a good war is World War 2, because America, its citizens, and its territories were under direct threat by the Nazi and Japanese regimes, and their demise was directly in line with America’s interests. However, a bad war is the debacle in Vietnam, because, although I hate Communism as much as the next guy, as I will explain later, the Viet Cong were not a threat to America, and South Vietnam should have been able to fight them on their own. 

In March 2003, America invaded Iraq, and quickly toppled the Baathist regime, sending Abrams and Bradley tanks to roll into Fido’s Square in the center of Baghdad to topple the statue of Sadamm Hussein. However, after toppling Saddam, we didn’t really have a plan on what to do next. We simply assumed that all Iraqis would just rise up and bring about a democracy. However, that was wrong, as extremist Sunni and Shia elements would begin fighting across the country, which would later lead to the rise of ISIS, and also the Iraqi government growing very close to the regime in Iran, which led to bases belonging to the Quds force in Iraq. The 2003 Invasion of Iraq is generally considered a failure today, and an example of what never to repeat again.

Fast forward to today, in the closing days of 2025, protests began against the Iranian Terrorist regime, which soon spread across the whole country in protest of the economy, which was in the trash, and the Iranians having to fight wars across the Middle East. These protests spread across the whole country, from Tabriz to Isfahan and from Kerman to Mashdad. These were some of the biggest protests in Iran since the 1979 Revolution, which brought the Ayatollahs to power in the first place. Unlike the Shah in 1979, who saw the writing was on the wall and fled, Ayatollah Khalimeni proceeded to massacre the protesters to convince the protesters to stop, and his police forces ended up killing around 30,000 PEOPLE in some of the biggest massacres in recent history.  

However, with this, President Trump warned Iran that they would help the protesters and stop the killings if they had to, and began building up American military presence in the Persian Gulf, the largest in the region since the Invasion of Iraq. We started to negotiate with the Iranians, so they could get rid of their Nuclear weapons, but they led to nothing. On the 17th, Iran began firing missiles into the Strait of Hormuz, which is the only way ships from the Persian Gulf can enter the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. This means that ships carrying oil and NG from the gulf can’t travel out to Asia and Europe. Finally, on the 27th, Iran and America had last minute negotiations, where Iran said they would never give up their nuclear program. That night, the Mossad, Israeli Intelligence, hacked the traffic cameras in Tehran, and both the US and Israel began preparing their fighter jets. The next morning, the strikes began.

Now, it is important to have some context on Iran before the strikes, and what got us to this point. Astoundingly enough, 50 years ago, Iran was one of our closest friends in the Middle East, and to Israel. I’ll put it this way, if you built a time machine and time traveled 50 years ago to 1976, and you told the Prime Minister of Israel that in 2026, Iran will be Israel’s greatest enemy and that the Arab States would help Israel in it’s war against Iran, and people all across America would be against Israel, it will be safe to assume that you would be immediately carted off to the Insane Asylum. Basically, Iran under Shah Palivai was a good friend to the US. However, the people were growing restless, and in 1979, they revolted, leading to the Shah being deposed and Ayatollah Khomeni coming into power. Immediately, Khomeini, and his successor Khamenei began turning Iran into an Islamic Theocratic Dictatorship, where criticizing the regime would be treated like criticizing God, and you would be sent to death. On top of that, in the latest phase in the age-old conflict between the Arabs and Persians, they began funding proxies against the Saudi Crown to spread the Islamic Revolution across the Middle East. They also despised Israel, who they said was an American puppet, and began funding Hezbollah, a Lebanese Militia born during the Lebanese Civil War. However, before the Saudi’s, Iranian’s and Israeli’s could duke it out, they had a bigger problem to worry about: Saddam Hussein in Iraq, who was trying to spread his nationalist Batthist ideology across the Middle East, starting with attacking Iran in the brutal Iran-Iraq War. However, in 2003, America invaded Iraq, which was a huge strategic mistake by the US, because not only was it completely fruitless, but Iraq turned into a battleground between Shia Iranian backed groups and Sunni Saudi backed groups, some of which would later form ISIS. 

Meanwhile, Iran has been infamously building nuclear weapons, which unlike Iraq, have been actually proven to exist, and are not being given up on by the Iranians, so the US and Israel have had to repeatedly attack their enrichment plants to stop them from getting the bomb. Because, if Iran gets the bomb, the whole world will be in danger, as the Iranians have shown that they are willing to attack nations beyond their own borders, even if they were not attacked first by them, as was shown with this war, and now they will have the most destructive weapon in existence. No matter what you feel about interventions usually, there is an argument that can be made that some nations should never ever be allowed to get the bomb.

So, on February 28, strikes were launched on Iran, which almost instantly killed the supreme leader, and several other high Iranian government officials. After that, Iran attacked all the Arab nations in the gulf, showing how dangerous they would be with a nuclear bomb, as none of the gulf states attacked Iran first. The war has been continuing, and much of Iran’s leadership had a severe case of missile, also known as death, including probably the new supreme leader. 

Now, there has been an understandable fear that the war in Iran is a horrible move, as remember what happened in Iraq, as it led to the deaths of thousands of American soldiers, trillions of dollars, and Iraq is now an unstable state, with militias battling each other, and as I said, a playground for the Saudis and Iranians, who are both backing ever more radical groups to attack the other. So, lots of people think that the Iran War is a horrible mistake. Now, I am a non interventionist usually, and only think the US should wage wars, as I said earlier, if it directly advances our interests or the enemy is a threat to the United States and it’s citizens. However, I am for the war because it does advance the interests of the United States, as it’s demise will be beneficial to the United States and our allies as it basically removes all threats in the region, which we will get to later. But this war is wholly justified, and I will explain why.
So, why is the war justified? Well, first, let’s remember why we are going into Iran. First, it is to eliminate the dangerous Iranian regime, which is a threat to the US and our interests, for a billion reasons, such as sponsoring terror proxy groups throughout the Middle East, like the Houthi’s, Hezbollah and others, working with our enemies Russia and China, and supplying them with drones and weapons. Also, they have the Quds force, which sponsored all of the Iranian proxy groups, which killed dozens of Americans during the Iraq War, along with other terror activities around the world. And, infamously, they are a brutal regime which murders their own civilians for speaking out. If that was not enough, they are trying to build nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction. Now, I know you are going to say “But wasn’t Iraq building WMDs also when we invaded, and there were none?” Well, yeah, but, however, Iraq had already dismantled their weapons long before, after the Gulf War, and by 2003, had already been proven to have 0 WMD’s. On the other hand, Iran absolutely is building nukes, and has never stopped. If Iran gets the Bomb, the whole world will be in danger, and that can never ever happen. So, Iran absolutely has to be stopped.

Now, this war won’t be like Iraq, and here is why. In Iraq, we invaded the country, and rapidly toppled Saddam’s regime, and Bush declared mission accomplished on an Aircraft Carrier. It was supposed to be a quick and easy operation to topple a dictator. However, we had one major flaw. Actually, over a dozen, but the point is that it hinged on the major fact that the Iraqi people would see the US as liberators, and would support the US bringing democracy. However, that is not what happened, as the Iraqi’s , although hating Saddam, didn’t really love democracy either. And when the Saudis and Iranians began funding extremist groups to fight the Americans and each other, they obliged, thus turning the brief operation into an 8 year quagmire.  This won’t happen in Iran. For one, we are not invading Iran, as that is a stupid and costly decision, and more importantly, we are letting the Iranian people decide their own future on their own. When we are done with Iran, rather than imposing a new system of government on the Iranian people, the Iranian people, who have been protesting against the Iranian regime already, and thus have some ideas about what a post-ayatollah Iran should be, will have the opportunity to decide their own future, albeit that it doesn’t go against the United States and its interests. In Iraq, people didn’t really know or have an idea on what Iraq without Sadaam would be and started fighting each other for Iraq, while being backed by the Saudis and Iranians, but in Iran this is different because they already have an idea on what Iran should be. So we should let the Iranian people pursue their own freedom and determine their future. And most importantly, we do have a goal and exit plan for this war, with the goal being making sure a threat doesn’t come from Iran again.

This war shows that, when it is executed properly, and has a reasonable basis behind it, interventions and regime change wars can be a good thing. I know this is a weird thing to say, after debacles in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afganistan, and going all the way back to Lebanon in 1982 and Vietnam, but interventions can be a good thing. This is because nations need to assert their dominance around the world to advance their interests, and it has always been that way, since the times of the Punic Wars. However, some interventions are more justifiable than others, like this one, as it directly advances the interests of the United States. Despite that, after several decades of forever wars, people, justifiably so, are wary of interventions, which is good…sometimes, as the most recent interventions we have had were utter failures. However, we need to also understand that some regime change interventions are good. For example, when we abducted Maduro a few months ago, that was a great example of a regime change war, because we had reasonable intentions, to stop China and Russia from getting a foothold in our hemisphere, and we quickly went in, bombed critical infrastructure, abducted Maduro, took our men home, and forced Venezuela to negotiate. We need more Venuzuelas to happen in our interventions, not Afghanistan’s or Iraq’s

So, what is the Operation plan for this war? So basically, step one is basically, uhh let me check my notes, oh yes: Bomb the heck out of Iran. So, basically, the first month of the war is going to be bombing Iran’s leadership, destroying their air defense, their navy, their army, basically all their capabilities that can make them fight back. This so far has been largely successful, as Iran’s navy and air force have been eliminated, most of Iran’s leadership had a severe case of missile, also known as dead, the current supreme leader, who replaced his dad is probably severely wounded if not dead, and . After we finish the job with bombing Iran, either 2 things will happen: Whoever is left in the Iranian government values their life and decides to negotiate with America, or we let the Iranian people, who have been told by America to hold their protests for now, but to revolt against the Ayatollahs and establish a new free Iran for them to enjoy, and they can choose their own future, rather than what some pen clicking foreign policy expert in DC thinks the new Iran should be. 

The only thing I am annoyed about the war is that, along with fighting the war, we have to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and nobody else is willing to help. I mean, why are none of our allies in Europe helping? We don’t even have to get most of our oil from the Arab states, as we have our own oil at home, so we technically don’t have to do it, but we do it anyway because everyone else would get mad at us and we are doing it out of the goodness of our hearts. However, if we are doing it as a choice, the nations of Europe should be a little grateful at least by helping, as they are the ones who need the oil, not us. But, we help them get a steady energy supply and what happens? “America sucks, America’s fighting an imperialist war, America is a warmonger, Trump sucks, etc”. This is exactly what I outlined in  Stop Dunking us Europeans, as we are expected to protect  the Europeans, but when we, as the superpower, do things that will protect us and Europe in the long run, we get “AmErIcA iS iMeRiAlIsT!” Look Europe, I will say this again later, but listen and listen good. We don’t have to help you and your connected bottlecaps. We don’t need you. You need us a million, maybe a quadrillion times more than we need you. We support your military, and you get to sit there all day while still calling America the enemy. Even when you don’t pay for your army, that’s alright, you can do it next time, and next time will never come. You always complain about how “Americans are barbarians, they have no free healthcare, all your money is spent on your military” but the reason we don’t have free healthcare is one, it is a stupid idea, and two, we spend so much on the military because you won’t!  But here is the thing Europeans. We can leave NATO any day we feel, and we won’t have to protect you anymore. We could ditch you any day, and the only reason we don’t is solely because we share the same values, and out of the goodness of our hearts, but that might soon change. And if we leave NATO, then you will have to face the Russians alone. Ooh, so you can take on Russia? Sure, Russia doesn’t have a great army as they couldn’t beat Ukraine, but the Ukrainians had two things going for them. First, they had a near endless supply of weapons by us, and also, the Ukrainians are too proud to let their nation fall to the Russians. You have neither going for you. You ain’t gonna get money and arms from us, and your people aren’t proud enough to fight for their nation. In Britain, there is a government sponsored video game where the villain is a protester who wants more rights for Britons rather than going to the illegal immigrants(I thought 1984 was a fiction book?) And that is definitely a trend spreading across the EU as more and more nations are arresting their people for “Hate Speech”. If you say you love your country, in Europe, you would be berated as a Nazi and a fascist, except maybe in sports. In Europe, being proud of your nation, you are treated as the enemy. So, maybe after maybe 3 days, a week, Russia might make it to the Elbe, if not the Channel. The only thing that Europe might have against Russia is that the Baltics and the Poles have an actually decent military, so good job, but otherwise, you’re cooked.
Look, I want Europe to succeed, but if you are going to act this way, you might as well be asking for it. So shut up, stay in line, behave, and have an actual army, or else.

But wait, we aren’t talking about Europe yet, we are talking about Iran. 

Now, if the Iranian Regime really falls, the implications would be massive. For one, we would be pretty much done with the Middle East. I know this sounds crazy, as it feels like we have been in the Middle East forever, but let me explain. Currently, our duties in the Middle East are to keep the supply of oil to the US, prevent  terrorism, and stop Iran. Now, we are on the verge of defeating Iran, and that will make their proxies, like Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas collapse due to lack of supplies and weapons from their boss. Also, we are transitioning away from Arabian Oil as we are drilling our own oil now, as we are a net exporter of oil since 2020, so we have enough oil drilled so we can sell it. Also, the Arabian states are building up their armies, so they can keep the trade of oil going on their own. And, that might be it, along with stopping  terrorism when needed. But other than that, we are pretty much done at that point, and we can leave the Middle East to our Allies, like Israel and others. Meanwhile, with the Middle East freed up, we can move our military to places of higher priority, like the Pacific, where China is trying to expand their frontiers, and potentially take Taiwan, militarily or economically. Or Russia, which although a lesser threat, still is a potential threat. 

But more importantly, this means that the evil alliance between China and Russia has received a major blow. Because now they know that America is back and bigger than ever! This is because, since our various failures across the world, in Iraq, Libya and Syria, we finally have stuff to show that America can stand on its own, and that we can be successful. The American world order since 1945, despite all the cries from the doomers, is not collapsing, we are winning, and we rule the world. This was also shown with the abduction of Maduro, and the soon to be imminent fall of the Cuban regime, which we will get to later. Remember, just a few years ago, under President Biden, everyone was worried that the Chinese were going to invade Taiwan by 2027, but now, it appears that China is not going to invade for a long time, as was shown by Xi purging his generals, because he  is starting to realize that America is too strong for the Chinese to invade Taiwan. People complain that “Ooh Trump is such a hypocrite, he was going to be a peace president or something”, but this is what peace is. Peace through strength is where we flex our muscles so it creates peace so the enemy won’t be able to threaten the world. This was how America beat the Soviets in the 1980’s, and that is how we will beat China now.