Larry Johnson points out the historical failure of a much more intense air war on Japan and its consequences for the probable failure of the Epstein Alliance’s war on Iran:
Anyone who thinks a massive bombing campaign will compel the Iranians to surrender and dump the mullahs, does not know the history of Japan, the United States and the Soviet Union in 1945. The US bombing of Japan started in earnest in March 1945 and continued through August 8, 1945. The conventional bombing killed an estimated 500,000 Japanese — mostly civilians. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August added as many as 226,000 to that macabre sum. Yet, it was not the bombings alone that prodded Japan to surrender… It was the Soviet entry into the war that forced Japan to surrender.
In doing this comparison, consider this: Iran is almost 5 times the geographic size of Japan, and Iran has 91 million people compared to Japan’s population in January 1945, which was an estimated 72 million.
Not only that, but the Japanese had been actively trying to surrender for six months before Hiroshima. Iran, on the other hand, has made it very clear that the US and Israeli militaries can kill as many mullahs and generals as they like and it won’t even slow down the Iranian missile onslaught.
The best thing Trump can do is declare victory and exit the Middle East. Israel is not the USA’s responsibility, defending it is not in the US national interest, and regardless of what happens, it will be much less of a problem if the USA stops funding it. The fever dreams of the Greater Israel Zionists is what caused this war, and Americans are no more concerned about the Zionists being wiped out than they were about the Nazis being wiped out.
Zionist != Israeli. Israel does have a right to exist, but so do the Palestinians and the Arab tribes. Israel has absolutely no right to the so-called “Greater Israel” which is far more expansive than any amount of Middle Eastern territory ever controlled by an Israeli or Judean king.
But appeals to historical claims are irrelevant. Iran is not going to surrender and Iran is not going to stop bombarding both Israel and US bases until its demands are met. The short fake Trump should be offering Iran a deal it can’t afford to pass up, not simultaneously declaring victory and crying for help from the Swiss Navy.