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You cannot negotiate with evil because evil does not negotiate — it advances. With that said, President Trump did not enter the office of President of the United States (both terms) with a desire for conflict, but a clear understanding of history’s warnings and lessons.
He saw that decades of appeasement had not moderated Iran; they had emboldened it. He saw that agreements had not changed the regime’s intentions; they had only bought it time. And he understood that a nuclear‑armed Iran would not simply threaten the Middle East — it would destabilize the world.
Since 1979, every American administration – Republican and Democrat – has attempted diplomacy with Iran. There have been sanctions, inspections, back-channel talks, incentives, agreements, resets, and piles of cash. Some slowed Iran’s progress. None stopped it. The regime’s goals have remained unchanged: dominate the region, export its revolution through proxy militias, and ultimately acquire a nuclear weapon.
The IRGC will never deal in good faith. They have one fanatical goal – to annihilate Isreal and The U.S. During this cease-fire, they are stalling to reorganize their power base or what is left if it. Their latest maneuver is trying to extort money from ships carrying oil to the tune of two dollars per barrel of oil, which would yield approximately $42 million per day. Now what do you think they will do with that payload?
They have been set back significantly militarily and economically. But if they control the Strait of Hormuz, they will rebuild. If they keep their uranium, they will work to use it. The mullahs hope that Western leaders will force Trump to quit before he takes Kharg Island. Our victory will not require a mainland invasion. It will require capturing, and keeping, Iran’s Kharg Island petroleum export facility. That would give us a death grip on the oil revenue that funds Iran’s nuclear, missile, and terrorist activities. It would also let us force Iran into paying for the cost of the war.
Victory may also require capturing a few small islands in the Strait of Hormuz. Or, perhaps the larger, 89-mile long Qeshm Island, as an effective base for the elimination of the IRGC’s small boat and shorter-range missile threats against ships. The essential nature of war has not changed. You must destroy the will of your opponent, or they will break yours.
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13
Iran will never change its ways as long as remnants of the current regime exists. Their current behavior shows that. They are playing the long game with the US hoping to survive long enough until the politicians here force Trump to withdraw. They know that they have no chance against our military in a prolonged conflict. I would first contact the other Arab countries in the region how they feel about leaving the Iranian regime the way it is. I would then search for the enriched Uranium let Israel kill some more IRGC and then leave. They will never honor any agreement that we get them to sign. We are the Infidels in their eyes. Under their Sharia law we must die. Anyone who believes differently is a fool. Hope our government chooses Wisely
Stick to the original plan to destroy Irananian bridges and power plants.
Don’t tell them ahead of time so Iran doesn’t put human shields as they were prepared when Trump said a week ago.
There is only one choice that will make any difference, absolute total destruction of the leadership and those who follow them. The other 3 choices change nothing. You can’t negotiate with Satan, escorts for ships is a joke, and letting private shipping companies take care of themselves is so foolish I can’t even believe that it is an option. If you don’t wipe out the entire nest of roaches, they will simply reproduce and continue being and doing what roaches do. Destroy them once and for all.
The US should stop negotiating with Iran because they continue to lie about everything. President Trump should take total control of the straight!
They understand force. Let’s give them more than they can handle.
Annihilate Iran.
It’s the only way to stop their terror on the world. From them and their proxies.
Install the Shah of Iran’s son as leader and secure world commerce through the Strait.
These are all achievable.
Just do it!
Iran has proven over and over again their deceitfulness and horrendous atrocities on not only their perceived enemies but their own people as well! They are the epitome of pure evil on earth!!
Unconditional surrender by Iran is a necessity.
It is a question of being a paper tiger and drawing one red line after another and doing nothing or being a world power that keeps its word and follows thru. They were given a choice open the straight and cease all military action or get bombed to oblivion. They chose to not be bombed and are now not in compliance with the agreement. Hence they must be bombed.
There will be no BINDING agreement with Iran. They are ruthless liars who use this ceasefire to regroup and restock ammunition.
Why is this our problem? The 20% of oil coming through Hormuz is a problem for the rest of the world. So where is the rest of the world? Where are the European nations who need this oil? Where are the other gulf states who produce oil and are affected by Iran’s actions? They build glamorous cities, but what are they spending militarily to protect their own interests? Why are we spending taxpayer dollars on people or governments who won’t help themselves, those who openly or tacitly support Russia and China in dumping the dollar? We have decimated Iran militarily. It’s time for the rest of the world to step up.
The Islamic leadership in Iran has one goal…total rule. They have no intention of negotiating with the Great Satan. Trump gives them every chance so there’s no doubt they were given every chance. In the end, blowing them out of existence is the only answer to removing radical Islam, which is ruining the world. If Iran falls, perhaps there’s a chance Europe can save itself from being taken over, too.
The US has stirred up the hornet’s nest… it needs to finish the job. Anything less will embolden Iran and leave the region more dangerous than when we began this “excursion”.
I’m only interested in continued action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We do not need to be intervening in protecting the european countries access to fuels to power their nations if they are not interested enough to participate in finding a solution themselves. We don’t need their oil, they do. It’s their fight not ours. They’ve been using us for far too long and we’ve been their doormat – no more. Time to focus on the US not the continuing to be the world’s police force.
Do #1 & #3, and drill baby drill.
You can’t negotiate with Satan.
People need to understand that Muslims believe that it’s ok to lie to people they consider infidels. INFIDELS in their thinking are anyone that isn’t a Muslim.
Finish what we started?
Direct military action. Get it done, now!
It’s obvious there’s no negotiating with Iran so direct military action is the only way to go. However, other countries need to step up to the plate and share some of the burden.
The religious fanatics in Iran are incapable of negotiating in good faith. And having Pakistan conduct negotiations is a fool’s errand. The Islamic Regime must end. Period. By whatever means necessary. They have been advocating “Death to America” for almost a half-century. They ARE a threat to US interests. America First = ending the Islamic Republic. Just get it done and do so now. Make America Great (and Safe) Again!
Trump said it right the first time, you can not negotiate with evil people. Iran started this war in 1979 and has killed thousands of people since. Their main goal is the destroy the US. Why have we waited so long to stop them? Why have so many people forgotten 9/11?
There is ONLY a choice to insure the Straight remains open, Iran cannot be allowed to block it for other countries, they don’t own the water. Clearly tell them it WILL remain open, have a presence there, and without warning if they do not, do as promised! No more warning, no more talking, ACTION is what they’ll understand.
We also need to support the Iranian people in overthrowing the nut cases ruining their lives and their Country!
It’s time.
We should ensure that until the Straits are open and free, no Iranian tankers can exit the Gulf. Then blockade or destroy the port of Jask. Then see how long the regime will survive with no money.
They have not shown any reliability of following any kind of agreement in the past except with a criminal intent for pallets of cash .
I have no military experience. I’m a man over 50 years of age. I follow Christ Jesus as my Lord and savior! I truly believe we need to put boots on the ground occupy that country to get rid of the theocracy that is left because the people have no way to defend themselves if they rise up and try to regain their country back from the Iranian guard. I believe this is the only way we will have complete success in our Epic Fury mission.
There is an extremely thin line here, and everyday that passes is one day closer to the midterms that we will not win given the current situation. High oil means high everything and people vote with their wallets, it’s how it is. I don’t know how this will be handled, but someone smarter than me had better figure it out today! I believe that securing the midterms is the most important issue at the moment, so what ever it takes. Because If we lose, nothing else will matter, simple. Can we buy another 6 months? No one knows. But the media controls the narrative here and they are promoting economic fear, and it is working.
Well, if our military leaders were prayer warriors they would be asking God what to do, just as the good kings did in the Old Testament. But, I don’t see that happening….There were times that God said to destroy everything and other times He did not. Using divine wisdom seems to get the best results…
Anytime you have a leader and country that tries to interfere with world trade, threatens, and takes the peace and liberties away from others are terrorist . YOU NEVER negotiate with terrorist . Blow them off the map ! No negotiations. They want to make Nuclear weapons and will one day if we give them the opportunity to do so. They will lie and steal to get their way. We and the world will never have peace if they continue to play games .No more time for Iran .
IRAN thinks the mullahs are BETTER than WE – USA are… THEY want USA DEAD and they don’t care how it is done… their “god” is not really a ‘god’ only a PRETEND one…
Unfortunately, the only way to deal with Iranian leadership is with force. It is also unfortunate that we have waited so long to intervene with their development of nuclear weapons. During that time, the leadership has consolidated its position by imprisoning and executing its rational citizens. If the fanatics are willing to kill tens of thousands of their own people and use suicide to further their cause, meaningful negations aren’t likely to occur. Restoring freedom of navigation to the international Strait of Hormuz will not be easy and I believe will require continued military and naval action. I hope that we continue to do the “hard stuff” and not quit before we accomplish what I think is the mission of ending Iranian nuclear weapons development, terrorism support and restoring freedom of navigation through the strait.
It is not possible to negotiate with ideologues whose reason for existence is to kill you. They can only be defeated militarily as Charles Martel demonstrated.
This is a no win war no matter how you do it. But here is what we really should have and should continue to do as a nation to make American great again. GET OFF OF THE FOREIGN OIL!!!
And ALL foreign products! We need to be energy independent and manufacturing independent. We were almost there during Trump’s first presidency and Biden reversed it all so most of the manufacturers who were building plants here and digging oil wells here have been stopped and shut down.
I heard of companies that were almost ready to open plants here in America and then when Biden won, they shut them down before they were ever opened.
A lot of people don’t understand the need for the high tariffs. It was to try and encourage companies to come back home but that takes time and money and with two years of Trump’s time in office gone I doubt it will ever happen.
That’s also why the Dems are fighting so hard against illegal voting. They plan on cheating even more the next time and they can’t do that if ALL states require IDs. There is no other logical reason for not requiring IDs. You need one to work. You need one to cash check. You need one to bank. You even need one to get a hunting or fishing license in ALL states. So why not vote? To cheat…plain and simple. So if they can keep the government shut down long enough the Republicans and Repuplicrats will cave and they know it. No fair voting…Dems will win every time and other than another civil war or seceding from the Union we don’t stand a chance!
What’s going to happen if we don’t even get in an out and out war with China but just make them made enough or our dollar becomes worthless enough where they stop selling to us? I’ll tell you what. We’re sunk!
We have have almost no pharmaceuticals and probably not a lot of anything. During Covid I worked in a hospital and masks and gloves were limited to doctors and nurses only due to the shortage. Why? It all came from China and the reserves were gone in less than a month. Most of our doctors purchased respirators so they would not have to use the disposable masks.
Just think about it long and hard. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize we are in very much danger right now. Not from wars. Not from nuclear bombs…although that is true as well. But just from a shortage of everyday items we need if we make certain countries mad.
Sometimes I think this is all due to the Bible’s predictions in the Book of Revelation. During the stories in that book it doesn’t seem that America fits in anywhere. Maybe we won’t be around when that book takes place but already be a dead or dying nation that has no power in the world system any longer. In Revelation it talks about 10 countries and we don’t seem to fit any of them but you can easily make assumptions on who they are and they are all European and mid-east countries. We don’t fit in. And anyone who can’t see that Revelation is soon to be fulfilled is blind. It even predicted AI and HERE WE ARE!
I just hate it for my children and grandchildren. They may witness the total downfall of our nation and not one shot will have to be fired to make it happen.
It’s missing the fifth and most obvious choice. Let the nations that depend on the Strait of Hormuz for oil and other materials, deal with Iran. Of course, we can’t have that because that would be common sense.
Didn’t we learn from WWII that treaties and negotiations are only as good as the people behind them? Hitler signed many agreements that he never intended to keep, and broke as soon as it suited him. He simply said that the other parties were fools, and he felt no obligation to honor agreements with them The current Iranian regime is like Hitler when it comes to negotiating, and may negotiate and sign anything, but have no real obligation to honor what they negotiated and signed.
I lived in the Middle East for many years. I was in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE. The Quran describes all non-Muslims as infidels, and it is fine to lie, persecute, or kill infidels in the name of Allah. Iran will never negotiate in true faith. They are like serial killers; they may say they won’t kill again, but given the ability will go right back to killing. You can’t stop until Iran collapses.
President Trump needs to show the Iranian Islamist terrorist regime that he’s fed up, he means business and he’s not taking it any more. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu should not stop until Iranian tyrants are irrelevant and Iran is free once again.
Never ever trust Iran…EVER, they hate America and they will NEVER change!
You don’t have the proper options. Since the US doesn’t need the oil shipped through the straight and China, Japan and the EU do need it. The correct response is for the US to eliminate the nuclear capacity in Iran and let those that need the Straight deal with it. So I didn’t vote. You seldom have good options in your polling.
One & three in that order. Allies and GoH countries are the buyers and sellers – more of them need to step up. If a short trial of option three doesn;t work, take the strait and give it to the countries exporting through it and tell them to defend their “new territory”. Iran does not own exclusive control of the strait and countries must stop acting as if they do. As for the country leadership, keep taking them down one by one until a less-rabid one emerges. As for the nuclear capability, continually blowing it away is obviously not working. At some point its going to have to be physically removed and controlled – preferably voluntarly by the Iranians once one is in charge that will bring them to their senses or by the US, Israel and other countries within Iranian missile range. The mullahs and their crazed follwers are NEVER gong to be reliable to act civilized being so brainwashed by what they pass off as religion. The sooner they are removed, the sooner world stability resumes.
Why does the US have to do it? It is not our ships or our oil that is being blocked. The nations of the world that the IRGC are ‘holding hostage’ with respect to oil tankers going through the strait ought to unite and say to Iran ‘no more.’ Open it, stop threatening oil tankers, or we all are going to do what it takes to ensure that you are no longer able to close it. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar ought to be particularly supportive of this, since most of the oil comes from them, not Iran.
I trust that whatever the President decides to do will be the right thing. He has good instincts.
THE IRANIAN ISLAMIC TERRORISTS CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO HONOR ”ANY” AGREEMENT! THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO DENY ANY REAL HONEST INSPECTIONS OF THEIR URANIUM ENRICHENT AGREEMENTS, AND WILL SIMPLY REBUILD THEIR MILITARY AND RESTART ENRICHMENT AGAIN. TOTAL MILITARY DEFEAT AND REGEIME CHANGE IS THE ONLY PRACTICAL SOLUTION, LETTING THE PERSIAN PEOPLE GOVERN THEMSELVES WITHOUT THE DRACONIAN INTERFERENCE OF THE ISLAMIC FACTIONS INVOLVED.
When will the United Nations do something other than spend the money of member nations and bathe in corruption? The Strait is an international waterway; the UN should have stepped in long ago.
I was about 13 when the hostages were taken. I remember the videos. Iran has been allowed by inaction to do terrible, evil things for far too long. President Trump is doing what is necessary. Finish the job. End the war and send a clear message that this will not be allowed.
FINISH THE JOB, DESTROY ALL OF THE DEMONIC REGIMEN IN IRAN AND EVERY BUNKER TO HIDE IN AND STORE WEAPONS. STOP PLAYING AROUND WITH THESE SO CALLED PEOPLE (THEY LIE AND ARE NOT ANY PART OF THE HUMAN RACE THAT SHOULD BE BREATHING). THEY ARE MASS MURDERERS, ABUSE WOMEN, KEEP FEMALE CHILDREN UNEDUCATED AT NO CHANCE FOR A REAL FREE LIFE.
SO STOP THE BS AND GIVE THEM THE PUNISHMENT THAT THEY DESERVE: DEATH, HELL IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR THEM!
I believe that if things don’t go well at the talks this weekend, and the “human shields” are no longer protecting the infrastructure targets, we should undertake a massive campaign against those targets in Tehran. Isolate it, as well as what’s left of the “leadership” to motivate the citizens there to rise up and take their country back. Desperation might just be the final push they need to overthrow the Mullahs and IRGC.
The IRGC are the hardcore islamists under direct control of the mullahs. since their objective is world domination and sharia law.it is incumbent upon us to destroy them. Allowing these to escape to Russia or another ally will only delay not deter them from returning again.
Get rid of the evil in Iran for certain but realize that the even greater evil people/ideologies are hidden in plain site. Don’t miss looking back, deep into the history of Zionism, Rothchilds et al, the London Central Banking system, the Federal Reserve (not Federal and no reserves) and why so much of American taxpayers hard-earned money is constantly sent to Israel. This isn’t about anti-semitism. Most people are pawns in the games of the wealthy psychopaths who want to control you, me and everything on the planet, like the rest of us. We need to stand against the bigger threat to the world – let’s not forget that part as we work to protect America/Americans. …and drill, baby, drill.