Tbh tend to agree. I don’t think a better or more softer leader wouldve taken over, that’s in no way a certainty. I do think creating a martyr out of a dying old man was immensely stupid. Let him die of natural causes and it doesn’t lionize him to a bunch of people with zeal.
Does it really matter? The regime would have deified Khamenei after his death, no matter if he died during a war or from natural causes. Those Iranians who don't back the mullahs won't give a fuck either way.
Honestly don’t get the point of these type of posts from Trump. You’re not happy the vassals aren’t blindly following? That’s fine, but that’s a grievance to be aired privately not to be put on public display where it exposes the growing rift.
https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2033927436040126636?s=46Just over the past 2.5 months, Trump has disrespected the sacrifice that American allies like the UK, Poland etc. made in Afghanistan, he has openly flirted with invading the territory of a NATO ally (Greenland), and disparaged NATO in general - and now that things aren't going according to plan, he's surprised and pissed because the same NATO partners he dissed nonstop refuse to bail him out on a war he had unilaterally started without consulting with his partners first, and which has absolultely nothing to do with NATO's mission statement? Seriously, he can go pound sand on that one.
The sad thing is that I'm even tacitly supportive of the idea of taking out the Iranian regime after the last hopes for organic change from within were drowned out in gunfire... but the execution and communication of this war have been a total mess. Closing the Strait of Hormuz was known to be Iran's big trump card in the case of a war - how on earth did the US go into this war without a clear plan for solving this problem?