March 10, 2026
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran stretches into its second week, President Donald Trump has been floating the idea that he wants to declare Mission Accomplished. “We will. We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,” Trump declared on Monday afternoon in a speech before Republican lawmakers in Florida.
Iran, however, has shown no sign of ceasing its attacks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is steadily launching missiles at cities across Israel and continues to strike U.S. military assets and outposts in the Persian Gulf. “The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a six-month intense war at the current pace of operations,” IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini said Sunday in video remarks broadcast on state media. “Iran will determine when the war ends.”
28 Comments
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 162d
The Burger Reich finally picked on an opponent that can punch back.
AmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.club · 25 pts · 162d
He wants to move on to Cuba. I’d say he’s bored of Iran.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 162d
I'm not sure he's developed object permanence. He may have forgotten Iran exists because he saw Cuba instead
daychilde@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 162d
The more Trump is compared to a toddler, the more sense it all makes.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 162d
Iran saving the world from endless US aggression by keeping them occupied.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Bored bored bored. Bored of Iran.
…sorry, just having flashbacks to previous decades…
wax@feddit.nu · 14 pts · 162d
He will just declare victory at some point
theneverfox@pawb.social · 8 pts · 162d
He literally already did. Multiple times
wax@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 161d
What's better than winning once? Winning multiple times
PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 162d
JK Bro, JK! I just needed a distraction from the Ep Stein drama!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 162d
I hope the Iranians make Trump give them all ESPN as part of the ceasefire agreement.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
Man, Factually called it dead on.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 162d
Iran could end the war independently with US than with Israel. US/Trump's ego needs denuclearization and opening of Straits.
Iran needs no more embargoes. There is a price that they can sell enriched uranium to US. Guarantees against no more future attacks can come with reperations/reconstruction cash as goodwill, to later be swapped with US investment. Let congress vote on affirming into law no more attack on Iran without 60% majority. Even if US lies about future intentions for peace, Iran missile production will outpace the US's, and cash (even as prepayment for future investment) goes a long way to ensuring another future defeat with forfeiting of US interests/ownership in Iran.
For the Israel front, the US/GCC/NATO could push back on some of those terms to pressure Israel to stop. Board of Peace chair given to Iran. world embargo on Israel, arrest/IDF fragging of Netanyahu, 1990s track for 2 state or greater multicultural constitutional Palestine solution. Israeli enthusiasm for genocide is conditional on the illusion of protection from all inconvenience from blowback of the unchosen.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 162d
And how would the said guarantee be enforced?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 162d
Instead of relying on trust of the US, cash restitution/reconstruction and investment means losing those investments if US betrays their guarantees/promises. It is also obviously a signal that any declaration of US victory is whitewashing of defeat, and enough people in US will politicize as defeat, to bring it up again, if a zionazi puppet in future starts calling it a good idea to attack Iran.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 162d
I don't think Iran is going to agree to end this without getting nukes eventually now. This war has shown the entire world that the path to peace is having nukes.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 162d
Iran has proven deterence capability without it. Iran needs US permission to trade more than nukes for great prosperity that can keep its deterence power. Nuclear pursuit was always stupidity with no economic value, but can turn into value by high profit sales of enriched uranium. It's important to give the US a victory narrative in getting them/Trump to accept defeat.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 161d
Given that Iran is getting bombed but no nuclear power is kind of shows the value of nuclear deterrence.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 161d
I get the point. They should have nuclear umbrella help to end the war earlier and easier, but even without it, mistake of attacking them is unlikely to be repeated.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 162d
how do you know this?
daychilde@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 162d
mrdown@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 162d
What exactly did not go according to the plan
daychilde@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 162d
You're contributing nothing to this conversation. How about making some sort of assertion or point to respond to? I'm not going to put in work to debate when I don't even know what your problem with anything I've said is.
mrdown@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 162d
Instead of acting like an angry loser, you could have simply ignored my question
daychilde@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 162d
Oh, so you don't have anything to say. Gotcha. I'll feel free to ignore the fuck out of you next time then.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
You are such a dumb loser. Go get your anger medicine. I asked a simple question, you were free to ignore it but decided to spit more bullshit. Please, go fix yourself
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 162d
i asked because i was wondering if you a knew of a source that said so.
and i do this too, but i try not to because i assume that my internalized chauvanisms will affect my reasoning and lead to me spreading misinformation by accident.
daychilde@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 162d
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 161d
i accidentally stumbled upon your source. lol
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml · -12 pts · 162d
Trump wants to keep kissing Putin's ass more than actually stopping iran