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I wonder what it's like to work at CNN. When they publish stuff this blatant, I always think, there's no way anyone working in this organization does not realize they are a propaganda outlet. What does that feel like? You go to school to be a journalist, you get hired at CNN, and you encounter the sort of organizational culture that publishes an article like this, dropping all pretense of red-vs-blue kayfabe and openly fawning over Trump bombing another country unprovoked.

Iran is a much larger and more powerful nation than Palestine or Syria. The other comparison that can be made is Japan, which retained its government despite a massive US bombing campaign. If the only tool is bombs, it's not clear to me that enough of them can be dropped to topple Iranian society.

Is it actually feasible today—politically, economically, industrially, and militarily—to destroy Iranian society with an air campaign?

What happens after Fordow is penetrated? I assume the US can blast down to it with enough B2 sorties and Iran can’t really stop them. How would this affect Iran’s nuclear program?

I wonder which supports which: does a fake diplomatic overture support a subsequent bombing, or does a fake bombing mobilization support a genuine desire for diplomacy

He probably had viral pneumonia

We're going to give him a few days of antibiotics

Sucks that the standard of care is to throw antibiotics at something that is probably a virus. This is how we get bacteria that are resistant to everything.

Now would be a great time for a foreign intelligence service to stage ICE false flag attacks

My takeaway is that John Mearsheimer thinks it's unlikely but plausible that Israel will nuke Iran.

*he thinks it's most likely that Israel will quietly ask the US to end the war in a way that lets Israel blame the US.

...So basically, a "hold me back, hold me back" bar fight where the guy wants to look like his friend stopped him from clobbering the other guy

interesting, thanks for the rec!

any resources you really recommend?

I feel like both of those options would shift US public opinion toward war

Is it actually plausible that America might really chicken out? Someone pour water on my optimism if it's unfounded