They thought it would be a smash-and-grab job. It didn't go down that way, now there's no end in sight.

I know I do. He’s already gone from no way to if necessary. I find that when he starts floating things they have a way of actually happening down the road.

Rapist is completely incompetent. Ditto for the clowns working under him.

I hang my head in shame.

Bored of one toy, he's turned to Cuba as his next toy.

WE should be panicking.

you don't know what to believe. Or what foreign sources say.

Guessin Lil Marco, possibly the only one semi-reality based, is beating his head against a wall somewhere.

Shall we start a game of Guess What Bonus Putin is Paying Trump?

considerations such as evidence and truth are secondary.

Anything written with that much hyperbole and emotion is extra suspect. In general we are in the phase of the war where each side says 'We are winning and taking no casualties.' Best to ignore what is said and look at what we know for sure.

Despite 7 days of bombing Iran is still able to launch missiles and drone capable of reaching Israel.

Meanwhile Israel shows no decrease in their ability to fly over Iran and bomb sites there at will with precision.

IMHO it is too early to tell who is winning.

For the play by play I follow Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-03-06/ty-article-live/idf-announces-major-strikes-in-tehran-iran-hezbollah-fire-at-israel/0000019c-c130-d7b3-affe-f9f344940000

evidence to back up these claims. Until then....

Gulf states are now arresting people who post videos of missiles landing. Before that repression started, we definitely saw missile strikes at the Bahrain HQ of the Fifth fleet and regional CENTCOM, taking out at least two pretty big radar centers. We know some of the US bases in Iraq have been hit repeatedly, with big explosions, for example, at the Harir air base in Erbil. The Kuwait strike that killed six servicemembers was a direct hit, and the bad press out of that one may be spooking DoD from releasing more information on base strikes and casualties. The amount of table pounding coming out of WH and DoD does not inspire confidence.

As a side note, I'll also say that the US internet is currently awash in trolls whose only point seems to be "We're absolutely destroying them! To say otherwise is delusional! They have no ability to fight back!" I mean, OK, great. So why the insistence? In my experience, people claiming to be that confident about something rarely need to be that insistent.

should be made to find out that that hide-saving was only temporary.

Unfortunately I have absolutely zero expectation that such a thing will happen in the next admin. Nobody is ever held to account as they ought to be.

They knew this was insane and went along with it.

The largest U.S. Department of Defense hospital abroad is pausing its labor and delivery services until further notice to focus on the needs of the conflict across the Middle East.
The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, located near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, is temporarily referring some labor and delivery patients to other hospitals within the local community, hospital officials told Military Times on Thursday

Link to tweet

However, nothing explains how the author has information that no one else appears to have. I would be very skeptical of the information for this reason.

As someone else posted, official accounts likely minimize affects to themselves while magnifying the affects on the enemy.

The damage to us could be in how heavily our weapons, used by both us and Israel, are depleted. In addition, there seemed to be a credible report that an important radar was hit.

On the other side, clearly much has to have been destroyed in Iran by all those missiles. In addition, Israel has killed many leaders.

"Israeli journalist" gives him a little more cachet than he probably deserves.

dubious sources

Not quite as breathless as the blogger, but on the same "wavelength".

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100221078318

But, nothing about "entire bases being abandoned and burned", yet.

Where tge populations of all our client states in the region all rise up together. Ain't happening.

I doubt they are hiding something good.