Trump's War
this will not end well. There is no path to a successful outcome here. And as long as the people of Iran just maintain their solveny and their viability, we have no way to accomplish this expansive task. And that graph I showed you with the price of oil is almost certainly going to continue to go up. Especially if you keep having tankers get burned up in in the in the straight there, that's going to continue to go on. And you're just going to then you're also going to continue to drain our stockpiles of offensive weapons of air interceptors, these very expensive ones, and we'll just keep dwindling with no objective and with no purpose. Not one of these missiles needed to be expended for our national security. Not one of them. Not one of the soldiers needed to die for our national security. Not one of them. Not any of the ones who may die here forward. None of it.
A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”
The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.
The Washington Post: Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime
[. . .] the war in Iran is not going well and the US IC is beginning the Washington game of, “Don’t blame me, I warned you not to do it.” I don’t know if Tulsi Gabbard authorized this leak, or if it came from senior analysts from the four principal agencies that were involved in writing this classified report — i.e., the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the National Security Agency. It is important to understand that this report was produced by the National Intelligence Council, aka the NIC, and it is under the direct control of Tulsi Gabbard. In any event I see this as a clear signal from people involved in producing this report that they will not be the scapegoats when the Iran war turns into a debacle for Donald Trump
