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Scrolling through the internet, people remain really fucking stupid, are totally incapable of critical thinking, and they’re completely divorced from any sense of history.
So… Iran’s been fucking with us since I was born, has funded, trained, and enabled some of the most heinous assholes of the last several decades, destabilized an entire region of the Earth, and generally been total pricks.
Previous administrations going back to Jimmy Carter have had problems with the Iranians being total pricks who routinely do evil shit. Each of them did a little something, or nothing, or went full quisling sucked up and bribed them, but mostly they kicked the can down the road to be someone else’s problem for political expediency. Because due to the situation at those times there’d be no overthrowing the fanatics without getting into a protracted ground war that would result in lots of American casualties.
But today, due to a cascading series of current events, the situation has evolved and the American president most likely to say Fuck It YOLO, was presented the opportunity to dog walk this regime without invading. That hadn’t really been an option before.
This was all caused because one of Iran’s many proxy bands of terrorist dickheads flew their waxy terrorist wings too close to the sun and got their dicks blown off by pagers. As that escalated Iran decided to launch a shit ton of missiles which weren’t nearly as impressive as everyone was scared they would be, so then they lost a whole bunch of their leading boss assholes, and the whole world saw that Iranian air defenses were wishful thinking when some B2s buttfucked their impenetrable super bunker.
So then the populace of Iran got really uppity, because they’re sick of these religious fanatic death cultists too. Their asshole government then provided a demonstration of why we’re never ever giving up the 2nd Amendment here.
Except the FAFO president told them not to massacre all those people, and he was sick of their shit. This is the same guy who has made a rather impressive list of military operations that get in, fuck shit up, and then get out fast with minimal American casualties. This man is not George Bush. He does not have a Colin “You Break It You Buy It” Powell. Trump apparently does not seem to give a fuck about “nation building”, which works out because the American people do not want another twenty years of bullshit like Afghanistan or Iraq.
When given the opportunity to kill a ton of bad people, allowing the Iranian people to do the rest, and this opportunity has never come along before, of course Trump is going to go for it. And despite the screaming from the schizophrenic podcaster crowd of the griftosphere, most conservative Americans are very much of the attitude fuck Iran.
(of course libs are gonna lib, so get ready for a bunch of rainbow dipshits to march with Iranian flags next week)
Larry Correia
February 28, 2026
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Correia is an excellent writer and can be very persuasive. When confronted with someone with extraordinary persuasion skills I am immediately on guard. Is it reality they are explaining with exceptional clarity or are they selling a fiction?
After spending a fair about of time thinking about it, I’m inclined to believe Correia is correct as far as he goes. These clowns deserve every ton of high explosive persuasion they get.
I do have some concerns about what things are going to look like a year from now. Are the Iranian people going to be able to clean up the mess after the bombs and missiles stop raining? Will they try and then get machine gunned into hamburger as the military takes control? Will China see this as the most opportune time for “reunification”?
There are always tradeoffs and risk in whatever path chosen. I see the military action as morally justified. I don’t think it really should have been our responsibility to do it, but Israel couldn’t really do it on its own and no one else was stepping up to help them.
As is usual when violence is the correct course of action it is not a good thing. It is merely the least bad option available. I hope the U.S. made the correct tradeoffs.
I’ve been thinking all week that all those M-4 and M-60s Slow Joe, Princess Kneepads & Co. left behind in Afganistan for the fucking enemy to have could have been put to a rather productive use right next door. Air dropped in bundles ot a dozen with mags and ammo they could have been the 21st Century version of the Liberator pistol.
Not to mention “live on TV” proof of the absolute value of the 2nd Amendment and just how important the ability to self-determine – and self protect – is for civilizations.
Yet, Revlon and L’Oreal will sell record amounts of blue hair dye and the users will line up thousands deep to vote for the next batch of brainless fuckups from the party that has spent almost two centuries fucking up everything it touches.
I have spent a bit of time with just war theory. In the Christian world, the major philosophers are Augustine and Aquinas though the beginnings can be seen in the pre-Christian era, notably Aristotle. It is actually fairly similar to self-defense law, scaled up to the nation state. It does pretty well regarding the start of wars but loses the thread as things drag on. The concept of proportionality is widely misunderstood. It is not a function of casualty counting but a question of are the means chosen proportional to end state desired. Thus you see in WW2, the civilian losses from the Allied air war were about 10x what the Germans inflicted on Britain. But the Allies believed that was necessary to get Germany to surrender. I think they were wrong but that their belief was reasonable (self-defense law again). A better case can be made for the atomic bombings in Japan where the major shock probably was necessary to get them to stop. To pass that test, there needs to be an articulation of the end state desired. This has been a problem for the US and still is. The pattern starting with Truman is to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Try that in a self-defense case and pack your bags for prison. Of course, there is no inherent reason that wars need to be just. The victors write the history books.
That’s a pretty good post. Not completely thorough and thought through, but much more so than most. Thank you for sharing!
The problem of lacking the “articulation of the end state desired” is a big one in the US and has been since the media screwed us in Vietnam. Before that, the end state was largely articulated, just not well or loudly. In Vietnam, for instance, the end state was “keep the commies from taking over South Vietnam”, and really, that was all we wanted.
But since then, “well, that’s bad. We should do some stuff” has been about all we seem to get WAY too often, leading to the “forever war” problem.
But since then, “well, that’s bad. We should do some stuff” has been about all we seem to get WAY too often, leading to the “forever war” problem.
^^ This ^^
Not having a well-defined “desired end state” opens the doors to never-ending scope creep (a.k.a. “expansion of mission objectives and parameters”), which is how we get sucked into “forever wars.”
With well-defined objectives, we can get in, get s#!t done, and get out. As it should be.
“I do have some concerns about what things are going to look like a year from now.”
Worse. They’re going to look worse. Every analyst who knows Iran in detail talks about how governments in the west love to underestimate the strength of the IRGC.
Not one of the U.S.’s attempts at military-led regime change post WWII has ever led to a better regime taking its place. Starting in 1961, when we really got into the swing of things: Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Grenada, Libya, Iraq, Bosnia, Sudan, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya again, Syria…but don’t worry, this time it’ll totally be different.
Iran has been “a week away from having nukes” for the better part of 30 years. Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining….
Of course you say that. This is being done by the Bad Orange Man – it MUST turn to crap.
That’s not to say that you are wrong (you might not be!), only that I can’t trust you to be saying it in good faith.
But to some extent, I don’t care how it turns out for Iran (for the sake of the common people, I hope it gets better) as long as they stop funding terrorism and fundamentalist Islam outside their own borders. That seems very doable.
I’m generally inclined to agree with you, because it’s really not a good look with our ME friends to totally be Israel’s bitch, and Iran has had a long time to prep for loss-of-leadership and C-and-C failure contingency planning.
That said, there are a lot of layers and conflicting narratives going on, and it’s pretty clear that EVERYONE involved is lying their arses off about most of what might be going on, so it’s really hard to know if this is 90% Armageddon-prep, or 80% scripted kabuki with only a few power players and a lot of reactionary NPCs, or what. We’ll know a lot more when one side or the other runs out of missiles and drones.
I think praying and being hopeful, without being overly optimistic, is the best route.
One of the more interesting analyses I saw pointed out that not only did Khameni get martyred, but Iran has never had a martyred Supreme Leader, AND he got martyred during Ramadan, the holiest time of the year. He was in his house with his family, not hiding, because he knew getting martyred at this particular time with his family would be especially effective since it mirrors the martyrdom of Husayn at Karbala. His martyrdom is actually unifying the Islamic world: Sunni and Shia are joining together to fight under the most important symbol of unity since the 1979 revolution.
The level of stupid you have to have to think that this was a good idea is off the chart. Clearly nobody in the Trump admin has any knowledge whatsoever of Islamic history, or even modern history, for that matter, and they have no clue how this will metastasize.
But you’ll really know they’ve all had a stroke to match Trump’s when somebody orders boots on the ground. Then they’ll discover that Iran is full of mountains, just like Afghanistan (but with a far more sophisticated infrastructure and military). What’s that quote about a land war in Asia?
There are elements of truth in that “analysis” but overall, I’m seeing this as heavily biased by TDS.
Sure, the Iranian government emphasized parallels with Shiite traditions of martyrdom, invoking Husayn at Karbala to strengthen symbolic resonance (Copilot), but who is actually buying that sales pitch?
As near as I can tell your claims of “unity” are totally bogus. Where is the “unity” of Saudia Arabia and Egypt? And even within Iran there is far from unity on the killing.
Just because you can find someone that says what you want to hear does not mean it is consistent with reality.
Western news outlets have a strong motive to not cover anything that might indicate Muslim unity across sectarian lines. That would violate the “so much winning!” narrative. You have to focus on what folks in the east are saying about themselves:
https://www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Mar-2026/ali-khamenei-s-killing-sparks-unprecedented-muslim-unity-defiance-oppression
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rare-moment-indias-sunnis-shias-unite-in-grief-over-khamenei-death/articleshow/128956816.cms
Those are more focused on India and Pakistan, so it’s true we don’t see a *global* unification. But “totally bogus” is probably not an accurate assessment.
“Western news outlets have a strong motive to not cover anything that might indicate Muslim unity across sectarian lines. That would violate the “so much winning!” narrative.”
Um, are you smoking crack? ANYTHING to make the Bad Orange Man look bad gets press! And any excuse to say how “Islam means peace” and other such BS has generally been pretty high on the priority list, as well.
And of course, the urge you falsely claim for the western media (which would be quite true about them if a Democrat was in office, of course) applies just as well anywhere else – they can just as easily be lying as our media often does.
As usual, you are picking and choosing what to believe based on what YOU WANT to believe more than any actual basis in reality.
“There are some articles I can find about Muslim unity, so multiple Muslim countries backing the US and Iran firing missiles at multiple Muslim majority nations just aren’t happening. Unity, yeah!”
To say nothing of the large majority of Iran (who are almost all Muslims, also!) being quite HAPPY about the death of Khameini. To the extent there is “unity”, it’s in agreement that “the Iranian government is the problem”.
“His martyrdom is actually unifying the Islamic world: Sunni and Shia are joining together to fight under the most important symbol of unity since the 1979 revolution.”
Yes, yes, the unity of “Iran is shooting missiles at them, and they are supporting Israel and the US”. Sounds like “unity”, yep.
This was even more unhinged than your usual, John.
I get it, Trump is the evil-est evil that ever evil-ed, so everything he does is evil, etc, etc. But perhaps pay attention to actual facts sometimes?
Will it turn out wonderful? No. I don’t think it will turn out wonderful.
But I do think it will get Iran to stop sponsoring international terrorism and generally destabilizing as much of the world as they can manage, and that’s an improvement.
The theocracy in Iran has been the single most-consistent force for murder and religious oppression on the planet for decades. Getting them to quit that is a good thing. If it improves things for the people of Iran, well, that would also be a good thing, and I would like that very much…. but, sadly, it is not required.
Who cares what Iran looks like a year from now. I want their ability to do harm to us removed. I don’t want nation building which is the logic of your comment if it is not let Iran keep poking us.
If that’s the sole metric, we should be nuking at least one other ME country already.
“Scrolling through the internet, people remain really fucking stupid, are totally incapable of critical thinking, and they’re completely divorced from any sense of history.”
So… Iran’s been fucking with us since I was born, has funded, trained, and enabled some of the most heinous assholes of the last several decades, destabilized an entire region of the Earth, and generally been total pricks.”
OK, let’s go there. Historically speaking, the middle east has been a destabilized shithole for the entirety of human f’ing history.
So, why not just stay away?
And we did what Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza? Those seem like wonderfully stable places now. Try an Airbnb in Benghazi lately?
Iran has been funding, training, and enabling heinous assholes?
Ok.
But if our CIA/Mossad hasn’t made Iran look like total amateurs to you at this point? Sorry, I ain’t the one with the critical thinking problem.
We’re the biggest dicks to ever walk the face of the earth, bar none.
Hell, we had two American presidents send pallets of cash over to them to do it. So, who’s really F’ing stupid?
Apparently, we’re getting what we paid for. Iran to be the Babba-yaga in the never-ending GWOT.
I don’t read Larry much. Now I know why. The first two paragraph were insulting propaganda. And the rest is CIA disinformation.
He should be careful. He could be replaced by AI for a lot less money.
I read Larry’s Facebook posts fairly often. Never heard of this guy “Clayton Wood” but I found this post on the same day I read the one Joe quoted from Larry. I found it to also be thought provoking.
https://www.facebook.com/clayton.wood.338/posts/pfbid0ugZ4E8Er2xjPGbpgxhSXh5jjks6MG818v5GuqeDyNQ7ifAbPRcPWLsUjnHMVAuK9l
For what it’s worth, Larry Correia is most definitely One Of Us. Libertarian/conservative gun culture.
His Book o’ Face posts are loud and long (but not long-winded or rambling) and he’s not shy about using profanity to make his point, but he’s well-read, well-informed on current events, and calls things like he sees them (and is usually right). The Left gets its panties in a twist every time he posts, which is its own brand of humor (Larry will post screenshots of particularly stupid comments).
Definitely worth a follow, if you’re into that kind of thing. (Also, FB regularly hides and/or down-lists his posts for non-followers, so without a follow it might be a while before you see him again.)
Yeah, I got a kick out of him predicting that in a year, nothing would be rebuilt after the fires… it’s been a year, nothing’s been rebuilt. The guy says it how it is without worrying about PC BS.
What many people keep forgetting (or ignoring) is that the People of Iran are not Arabs. They are Persian. As such they never were/are not majority muzzy.
After the peanut farmer back-stabbed the Shah, a typical small number of Arab/communists moved in and convinced everybody the revolution had come and they were the good guys. Didn’t work out so well as usual for the native population.
And most of the rest of the surrounding countries a are okay with the US taking out their trash because they saw the people running the government in Iran as an absolute threat to their regimes.
FWIW a friend of mine was with AIA watching Russia from the Russian/Iranian border before jimma screwed the pooch there.
Just because Correia is correct and the Mullahs are finally getting the ass shellacking they so richly deserve doesn’t mean things still can’t go sideways and end up WAY worse than they were before this chivaree kicked off. Fate has a way of screwing up the best laid plans.
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
“The enemy gets a vote, too.”