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A number of calendar events could play a role in the timing of an attack. The Winter Olympics — traditionally a moment of global unity — conclude on Sunday; some European officials said they believed no strike would occur before then. Meanwhile, Ramadan began Wednesday; some officials from US allies in the Middle East — which have lobbied against an attack, fearing regional destabilization — said an attack during the Muslim holy month would convey American disrespect.
Kristen Holmes and Kevin Liptak
February 18, 2026
US military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call, sources say | CNN Politics
“… convey American disrespect”? I would have thought exploding 100 tons of bombs on their infrastructure would be considered “disrespectful” during any month.
And don’t forget this nation was forged by showing up in the camp of the British in middle of the night on Christmas and butchering them. I would say holiday attacks are part of our culture.
Not to mention that holiday attacks are also part of islamic tradition. There’s even a war named for that, the Yom Kippur war.
Known as the Ramadan war in Arabic sources but since it was the 10th day, I doubt it was timed for that. Pretty much a tactical assessment that the Jewish holiday would impair Israeli mobilization. If I were planning an attack on the US, I would pick St. Patrick’s Day when everyone is drunk or maybe Cinco de Mayo. Best example I can think of for timing was Washington crossing the Delaware but that was us. And the Hessians were indeed drunk or hung over.
Still a religious holiday.
And while we’re at it, consider all the car crashes stabbings and truck bombings into Christmas Markets in Europe over the last 15 or so years.
Attacks during your enemies’ religious holidays has a long and popular tradition in all religions.
Some EUropean officials can shut the fluck up until they’ve paid back all the money the US spent protecting their grifting asses throughout the Cold War. At this point, when the internationalists who “govern” France, Spain and the U.K. are unilaterally prepared to surrender to invading Islamists. I’d say it’s a shame that Poland and Hungary lie between Russia and Western EUrope. I’d rather the Russians have it than it become Islamic. Who cares what they think. If they don’t like it let them dissolve NATO!
Yes, we should have no problems killing our enemy. Whenever we can.
The nature of war is to kill each other at the most vulnerable time.
As you say Joe. We did it on Christmas. The communists did it on TET.
God had Gidon attack at night to fool the Midianites.
But we shouldn’t be attacking Iran at any time.
Not that the leadership of Iran don’t need killing.
I mean, let’s face it. If we’re going to go around attacking assholes for being ignorant asshole that want to kill everybody.
We should start with Washington DC? I mean if ever a place deserved a neutron bomb. DC would be that place.
During gay pride month, or pedo grooming parade, maybe? The sad part about that is those grifters never truly take a day off/holiday.
But I would posit that it would be much smarter than attacking Iran. With a huge jahdi population in our midst. And an 8,000 mile long supply line watched and patrolled by both Russia and China.
Who will certainly be helping Iran.
We got our pants down and our ass way out in the breeze on this one.
And with the statement that moron Mike Huckabee just made about Israel having a “biblical right” to conquer the middle east?
We should just turn around and come home.
He just gave every jadhi in the world a reason to kill us. (Not that they truly need one.)
But now the world view is it’s official US policy to conquer Iran for Isreal.
No matter what we say.
This will not end well for us if we strike Iran.
It hasn’t ended well for us when we DON’T strike Iran – they keep chanting “Death to America” and all that, paying people to kill our citizens, etc.
We have specific, completely self-interested reasons to deal with Iran. Good reasons.
Good ENOUGH reasons? That’s a matter of personal judgement. You would judge “no”, and I respect that. It’s a reasonable position.
I think there are also enough reasons that judging “yes” is also a reasonable position. Neither position is just completely out of touch with reality.
Not even completely sure on where I stand on it, even. There are good arguments on both sides.
“How the world views us” largely isn’t a good argument – they do what they do, and at least half the time, such statements from them are BS, anyway. But several of your other points were quite good.
Agreed.
As far as I’m concerned Iran and islame in general need an ass-kicking they will never forget. We should make the crusades feel like a birthday party.
They have made themselves abundantly clear that we are their enemies.
And as long as we are anything but under islameic domination. We will remain as such.
What I’m saying is that we should go to war on our terms.
Having our own house in good order and well protected before doing so.
And do so for our own reasons. Not because of what they might or might-not do to anyone else.
We are in no shape to go to war with anyone at this point.
Look up “Metcalf attack, fiber optics cut” to understand a small part of why it’s a really bad idea at this time.
Or maybe, “why do American ships keep running into each other.”
Jadhi islame is in our base camp. We don’t need to go to Iran to fight them. And until we have rid them from America. Rebuilt our ability to not only fight all comers, but absolutely destroy them? (something we are nowhere near having the ability to do, this side of nukes, anyway.)
Sorry, they can have Isreal. (Not like it’s the first time.)
“(something we are nowhere near having the ability to do, this side of nukes, anyway.)”
The main limiter on that is our ammo stockpiles. Beyond that, yes, we can, and it’s not close… but we lack the will to do so.
And you don’t think the huge jadhi population in our country is a problem?
Starting a war over there could open a second front over here?
To say nothing of the traitor class that live among us. And might actually help the jadhis.
Ammo and will are only two parts of the battlespace.
“And you don’t think the huge jadhi population in our country is a problem?”
It’s “huge” relative to US history, nothing more. It’s not actually huge.
There could be a wave of surprise attacks, yes, and it would be unpleasant. It would affect morale and will to fight.
But it would not otherwise be significant in terms of war effort.
Think Tet Offensive, which *militarily* was absolutely disastrous – without the US media carrying the water for them, they would have likely outright surrendered (we know this from their own internal documents, released in the 90s).
“Starting a war over there could open a second front over here?”
A “second front”? No. It could be very unpleasant compared to the softness we are used to now, but the only real threat, at the *society* level (there would be deaths and property destruction… on a small scale relative to actual war), is morale and will to fight.
20 million fighting age males in just 4 years all over our country wouldn’t turn into a huge second front problem?
Military history aligns us more with the Visigoths inside Rome much more than the TET offensive.
You can’t make ammo if you can’t get the rare materials from one side of the country to the other.
But the larger point is why open ourselves up to the problems in the first place?
“20 million fighting age males in just 4 years all over our country wouldn’t turn into a huge second front problem?”
There will be a subset of them that are problems, yes.
It will not be 20 million problems. Look at the militaries of the world. Get a sense of the scale involved. It might be as high 100,000 of those, which would be very unpleasant for a little bit, *at the societal level*. At the individual level, in the places they do stuff, it would be devastating and deadly, of course, but a single person can do that (we have examples of crazy trannies doing it several times in the last couple of years).
“patrolled by both Russia and China”.
With WHAT?
You project power with aircraft carriers.
Russia’s flagship and single aircraft carrier can only move via tugboats.
China’s navy has a whopping THREE aircaft carriers to the US Navy’s eleven.
That right there is the hubris that has gotten armies wiped out for centuries. And empires collapsed.
Thinking your enemy has little or nothing to fight back with is a terrible mistake.
And exactly why we are on of ammo. Ukraine has lost a whole generation of their young, and WWIII is just getting started.
China has almost as large a satellite spy network as we do.
Think they’re not feeding info to Iran?
Think they haven’t hacked DOD and know what’s being loaded on every ship crossing the Atlantic? When it will arrive on station?
Think they won’t be telling Iran where all our planes are in the middle east? And when they are being moved into position for take-off?
Think Russia isn’t moving in AA systems into back Iran?
Haven’t come up with something to counter what was used to get past Iran’s systems in the 12 day war?
A lot of ways to patrol a battle space and never leave your fingerprints.
This is not mud-hut Afgans we’re fighting. Persians invented chess. Guaranteed they’re playing it.
And to date Trump hasn’t seemed to get past UNO.
I hate to be the “AKSHULLY” guy, but the attack on Trenton didn’t happen on Christmas. It happened on December 26th.
The crossing started somewhere after sunset on Christmas and the artillery completed their crossing at 3AM December 26th. The American troops started marching towards Trenton from their landing spots at about 4AM. The actual first attack was at about 8AM on the 26th.
According to historians, the Hessians weren’t drunk and sleeping it off that morning either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton#Hessian_drinking
Thanks for the corrections.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world…
https://voxday.net/2026/02/22/the-art-of-war-in-the-taiwan-strait/
On the other hand, currently the Pentagon Pizza index indicates nothing imminent is happening. https://www.pizzint.watch/
On the gripping hand, silver gapped up (not a lot, but still), and has been grinding higher since, up $3 as of this writing, and that would tend to indicate fear something significant will happen, even if it’s not bombs-away. https://www.kitco.com/charts/silver