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Old 03-20-2026 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Extenda
What are the “certain objectives”? They keep changing…sometimes hourly.
I think the objectives will be whatever Trump can get out of this without too high of a cost... political, economic, geopolitical. Doubt he cares about $ cost. So kind of a fishing expedition...

Regime change?

Compliant regime 2.0?

Nuclear program severely degraded?

Proxies cut off from support?

Lower conventional threat to the GCC?

Loss of future ability to interfere with shipping?

Message sent to other Evil Empires (mission accomplished at this point I think).

Kind of like a Chinese menu, he'll take what he can get up until it gets too hot in the kitchen and he has to pack it in.
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