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The US/Israeli Bombing Of Iran: Means and Ways Without Ends
An Update
Phillips P. OBrien
Mar 02, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-usisraeli-bombing-of-iran-m
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If we use this rational Ends-Means-Ways model to breakdown what the USA is doing now, we could say that the USA has a clear End in mind (destroy the old regime and replace it with something new) and is relying on ranged weaponry mostly as its Means (airpower, long-range missiles, etc) which it is employing in particular Ways (a decapitation strategy of killing the old regime and weakening governmental institutions to such a degree that the Iranian government falls).

It is a wonderfully rational way of explaining national policy. The only problem is that it is a mirage. There are no rational Ends in action here beyond a desperate attempt for Donald Trump to get a political victory and at the same time keep his paymasters and political cronies (think MBS and Netanyahu) happy. This has far more to do with Trump desperately needing a win with the 2026 election approaching and trying to in his own mind cement himself as a forceful and strong leader (while undoubtedly making money) than it does with any rational gain for the United States. It was clear that the US was under no immediate security threat from Iran and the Iranians were going to significant lengths to make it sure that they had no desire to launch military operations.

In other words it was a war of choice, chosen by Donald Trump to meet some very personal needs.

And that understanding means that so much of the reporting which is based around there being a clear national goal here, is patently absurd. Because there is only a personal end for Trump, the ways and means cannot be analyzed in a traditional way. US service people and the Iranian people are merely tools being used by Trump to satisfy his own desires.

Remember, Trump made his disdain for US military personnel clear when he called those that died fighting for the USA in World War I “suckers” and “losers”. Here is gift link to that article.

It also explains why we have the president and White House constantly flailing around, changing their stated aims every few hours as they desperately hunt around for some end-state that they can sell to the American people as a great victory. Indeed, we seem to have a constant cycle of different Ends being wheeled out, some at almost the exactly same time, over the last few days.

Let us start from the beginning. When Trump made his original announcement, it was clear that he was calling on the Iranian people to rise up, promising them support, and calling on the old regime to surrender. Here are three quotes from his address which you can watch in full from a link in the primer I put together Saturday.

• “Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand... When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations.”

• “Now you have a president who is giving you what you want. So let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny.11

• He also issued a direct threat to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: “You must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death.”

Then something happened. It might have been the lack of any uprising in Iran or the fact that he never thought at all about how he would achieve his victory once killing most of the Iranian leadership, but then Trump started backtracking and talking about many different ends, many of which would involve keeping elements of the current regime (the ones he threatened with “certain death” above).

In Axios he was quoted as saying the whole thing might end in a day or two. “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs].’”

And he quickly started walking back any idea that he would support an uprising of the Iranian people. He told this to a reporter from The Atlantic.

I asked Trump whether he was willing to prolong the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran to support a popular uprising if one unfolds. “Will they continue to get support if it takes some time to overthrow the regime?” I asked. Trump was noncommittal. “I have to look at the situation at the time it happens, Michael. You can’t give an answer to that question,” he said.

Of course he said this almost exactly at the same time that he was tweeting triumphantly about killing Ayatollah Khamenei and once again calling for the Iranian people to rise up and seize power.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, "Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!" Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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Feb 28, 2026, 9:37 PM

Of course this did not end it. Last night he called a reporter from the New York Times and once pivoted wildly back and forth, taking at least three different positions on the desired ends of the war. His favored end at this time seemed to be practically no regime change at all. He raved about what he had done in Venezuela which was to remove the leader but leave the regime very much in place. Its almost painful to read the desperation as he flails around, but you should.

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Then he offered a very different model of what the transition of power in Iran might look like, referring repeatedly to his experience in Venezuela after he ordered a Delta Force team to seize Mr. Maduro.

“What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Mr. Trump said.

His answer implied that what worked in Venezuela would work in Iran, a nation with about three times the population and a military and clerical leadership that has ruled with increasing repression since the 1979 revolution. Over the past several weeks, Mr. Trump has repeatedly brought up Venezuela as the model of a successful operation and hoped to replicate aspects of it in Iran, identifying leadership that would be more cooperative and friendly to the United States.

But he has been told by his advisers that the vast differences in cultures and history made it virtually impossible to apply the strategy used in Venezuela — in which the existing government was kept in place, after it agreed to take instructions from Washington — and try to replicate it in Tehran.

Nonetheless, Mr. Trump appears enamored of using a Venezuela- like model in Iran.

“Everybody’s kept their job except for two people,” Mr. Trump said of the outcome in Venezuela.

Boil it all down and what do we have? We have a military operation with no clear ends at all. Stop asking what the US governments intentions are, they do not exist outside of the personal interests of Donald Trump. They can and will therefore change in a heartbeat as he searches desperately for whatever end gives him the best chance to declare victory.

He has made the national interest entirely personal.

Much more at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-usisraeli-bombing-of-iran-m
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, March 2, 2026 7:30 AM

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The world you thought you were living in 16 months ago was pure fantasy, faggot.

You are a loser. You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The world you thought you were living in 16 months ago was pure fantasy, faggot.

You are a loser. You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.

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My world is unchanged, 6ix. In your world, your lungs are rotting because of something stupid you did, which you have forgotten doing. See http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12395
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In other stupid news: Three US fighter jets crashed in Kuwait on Monday due to an “apparent friendly fire incident,” the US military said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/middleeast/us-kuwait-aircraft-crash-ira
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, March 2, 2026 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The world you thought you were living in 16 months ago was pure fantasy, faggot.

You are a loser. You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.
My world is unchanged, 6ix. In your world, your lungs are rotting because of something stupid you did, which you have forgotten doing. See http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12395
64#1239564

Your world is dead.

Turns out my lungs are fine and all I need are some antibiotics. Probably got the staph infection pneumonia from one of your Illegal Alien friends at the local ALDI.

Thanks for that, loser.

Keep on posting dumb shit, idiot.

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