In an Instant, America Became Strategically Unpredictable—The U.S. Iran Strikes Were a Message to the World

One of the great weaknesses of American foreign policy has been our predictability.

With leaders such as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack (Kenya) Obama, our opponents were able to pinpoint our direction and our intentions, and sadly our warrior edge was noticeably absent.

This from frontpagemag.com.

Quite the contrary, one of President Trump’s greatest strengths has been his unpredictability. And concerning the Iran strikes, he not only kept everyone guessing until the last second, he used sophisticated means to draw the world in an opposite direction.

Tucker Carlson’s pal Dan Caldwell was booted from the Pentagon over allegations of leaking. So were a number of others. When the strikes were actually launched, there were zero leaks despite claims by some in the media that they were getting information from anonymous “officials.” Bull sh*t!! Everyone stayed quiet on the big issue and the the high-level chessmanship proved to be genius.

To wit:

– The media and social media analysts were misled about [the] staging prep for an attack which proceeded quite differently,

– [I]t may have been another level of the feint, but President Trump’s ‘two week’ deadline [seemed to fall] apart when Iran refused to engage in high-level negotiations,

– Either way everyone was caught by surprise. And that’s a good thing, also

– [A] message to China—[t]he CCP believes it can anticipate and predict us. When it can’t, it gets nervous. Any CCP plan for Taiwan just became a lot shakier because there is no way that Xi and top officials can look at what happened with Iran and believe they can gauge America’s response with any degree of certainty.

The Israeli response after Oct 7 against Hezbollah and now Iran already showed how war plans by their allies could go awry through misdirection and sophisticated planning. The Iran strikes are a more direct warning to China that America’s moves cannot be predicted and that, like the Israelis, we might be capable of something more sophisticated than our actions in the last generation would suggest.

The recent action by the United States military may very well prove to be a win/win:

– China’s allies in the Middle East are losing, and

– America just became unpredictable, [which may] buy us the time we need in the Pacific. It now seems likelier that Xi will push back whatever he was planning for after 2028.

God speed to our American military forces.