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:"In the Situation Room on Feb. 11, Mr. [[Netanyahu]] made a hard sell, suggesting that [[Iran]] was ripe for [[regime change]] and expressing the belief that a joint [[U.S.]]-[[Israel]]i mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic....Mr. Netanyahu’s presentations — and Mr. [[Trump]]’s positive response to them — created an urgent task for the [[U.S. intelligence community]]. Overnight, analysts worked to assess the viability of what the Israeli team had told the president....The U.S. officials assessed that the first two objectives were achievable with American intelligence and [[military]] power. They assessed that the third and fourth parts of Mr. Netanyahu’s pitch, which included the possibility of the [[Kurd]]s mounting a ground invasion of Iran, were detached from reality. When Mr. Trump joined the meeting, Mr. [[Ratcliffe]] briefed him on the assessment. The [[C.I.A.]] director used one word to describe the Israeli [[prime minister]]’s regime change scenarios: “farcical”. At that point, Mr. [[Rubio]] cut in. “In other words, it’s [[BS|bullsh*t]]”, he said."
:"In the Situation Room on Feb. 11, Mr. [[Netanyahu]] made a hard sell, suggesting that [[Iran]] was ripe for [[regime change]] and expressing the belief that a joint [[U.S.]]-[[Israel]]i mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic....Mr. Netanyahu’s presentations — and Mr. [[Trump]]’s positive response to them — created an urgent task for the [[U.S. intelligence community]]. Overnight, analysts worked to assess the viability of what the Israeli team had told the president....The U.S. officials assessed that the first two objectives were achievable with American intelligence and [[military]] power. They assessed that the third and fourth parts of Mr. Netanyahu’s pitch, which included the possibility of the [[Kurd]]s mounting a ground invasion of Iran, were detached from reality. When Mr. Trump joined the meeting, Mr. [[Ratcliffe]] briefed him on the assessment. The [[C.I.A.]] director used one word to describe the Israeli [[prime minister]]’s regime change scenarios: “farcical”. At that point, Mr. [[Rubio]] cut in. “In other words, it’s [[BS|bullsh*t]]”, he said."
*[[Alastair Crooke]]: [https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/irans-determination-to-breakout-from Iran's Determination to Breakout from the Panopticon of Western 360° Containment].
*[[Alastair Crooke]]: [https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/irans-determination-to-breakout-from Iran's Determination to Breakout from the Panopticon of Western 360° Containment].
:"Yet the US [https://x.com/imetatronink/status/2042272191757357318 reality is stark]:
:"Yet the US reality is stark [https://x.com/imetatronink/status/2042272191757357318 (Schryver)]:
::“The US has lost its naval presence and military bases in the Persian Gulf region; its entire inventory of stand-off munitions has been nearly exhausted, along with its air defences, which have been proven woefully ineffective”.
::“The US has lost its naval presence and military bases in the Persian Gulf region; its entire inventory of stand-off munitions has been nearly exhausted, along with its air defences, which have been proven woefully ineffective”.
::“This is what decisive strategic defeat looks like”.
::“This is what decisive strategic defeat looks like”.