Militarily it is pretty obvious this war is essentially over. Unless a Russia or China get involved, which is very

[lostincalifornia]

unlikely, Iran has lost militarily.

The question of course is who will win the hearts and minds of the people?

I hope we haven't left them a civil war.

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Right. If it's over, why are U.S. military targets getting hit?

[C_U_L8R]

2. Was it over when Putin invaded Ukraine?

I just don't see the exit strategy... Trump is gonna be stuck with his quagmire (because of money, ego, incompetence, etc)

[PatSeg]

3. I don't see it as "essentially over"

Iran has been preparing for such a conflict for years and has had all kinds of contingency plans ready.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. How do you figure that?

It is anything but over.

[PCIntern]

5. "Was it over when Germany bombed Pearl Harbor?"

[Whyisthisstillclose]

6. LOL! Very good! Obscure reference of the week!

[PCIntern]

12. It was the least I could do!

Belushi Forever!

[ForgedCrank]

7. What criteria

did you look at to deem the war as being over? And neither Russia or China are going to get involved here because we just showed them how easy it was to disable all of their defense systems in Iran with the push of a button. All of hat stuff was Russian and Chinese.
There are objectives to be met, and it's not done until those objectives are checked off the list.
We don't have any real details of what those objectives involve. We can make assumptions, but no one is going to list the detailed plan and tell the enemy what we are doing next.
Since we are still actively bombing Iran, I would think it is safe to say that those objectives, whatever they may be, have not yet been met. If I had to guess, I would say that of the remaining objectives, probably at the top of the list is to destroy as much as possible, Iran's equipment that is being used to lash out and strike everyone around them in a hissy.
I would also expect that we aren't stopping until a more complete destruction of their nuclear programs has been established and verified.

[lostincalifornia]

8. I said militarily. Unless Russia and China get involved, the only thing Iran can do is hit and run.

Their Navy is gone, no real Air Force.

The biggest risk I think is a civil war between the hardliners and the reformers.

I think trump will pull out and most likely leave the country in chaos, like he does everything he touches.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. The "American interests" will not let him leave it in chaos

ie, the oil companies.

The religious zealots (Isis/Isil) have terrorist cells all over the world. They claim authority over ALL Muslims worldwide. We will have another 9/11 type attack or like the attacks in Paris 10 years ago. It doesn't matter if most Muslims do not agree with them. Enough do that they receive financial support, just like Hamas gets support to attack Israel.

[ForgedCrank]

11. Their military

assets are obviously not gone. Severely damaged and operationally ineffective, but not gone. This is obvious when one sees the rockets and drones still raining down on all of their neighbors. They have resorted back to their true selves and that is dishing out terror attacks for the sake of vengeance. The bombing won't stop until that behavior ceases, and that won't happen with those people until they have no more rockets. We've seen that movie 100 times already, and it's not difficult to predict.

[Prairie Gates]

9. Can anyone imagine living what we've lived through in the past 25 years and believing this?

Good Lord, lost. Get it together.

[newdeal2]

13. No way it is over

I don’t know what conventional military options Iran has left, but they have lots of unconventional options:

Their proxy groups around the Middle East, terrorist cells perhaps in the US even, cyber attacks.

[womanofthehills]

14. Just beginning- US getting low on missile intercepts

US & Israel running low on interceptors - here is Rubio saying it’s not fair.

🇮🇷 Marco Rubio:

"They can build 100 ballistic missiles a month

We build 6 or 7 interceptors a month... versus thousands of their one-way drones"

Link to tweet

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