re: If you were Donald J Trump the Great, how would you have handled Iran?

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According to trump, Iran is debilitated

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But it is clear that they are not

I would have listened to Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, instead of Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Benjamin Netanyahu.

I really dont know what intelligence Trump was given to put myself in his shoes. I'm no fan of foreign intervention but Trump has been nothing like uniparty presidents before him so I just give him the benefit of the doubt on this whole situation. I think everyone can agree that Iran not having nukes it best for everyone.

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Damn sure wouldn’t have let them close the strait.

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Trump said Iran never controlled the Strait multiple times.
This has to be the first time the USA ever had to surrender in a war.

The protestors had all been slaughtered by that point.

We must consider whether nation-state USA has the capability to complete a military operation like you describe. Do the American people want that? Can the US economy pay for that?

Also, there's a legal issue - The War Powers Act. Trump's military campaign to conquer Radical Iran like the US conquered Nazi Germany seems like a campaign that is outside of the War Power Act, so, such a campaign might be illegal.

I agree with your plan completely, but, I wonder whether the 2026 version of the USA has the capability to invade and replace an evil radical Islamic regime in a place as large as Iran.

That military effort would require total mobilization of all US National Guard and Reserve forces, including bringing everybody currently in the Inactive Reserve back to active duty. It would be a massive national war effort not seen since the USA mobilized to fight WW2.

I'd like to think that my country could do it, but, when I realistically try to analyze the real situation, it gives me pause.

Nothing. Would not have bought the fairy tales from Netanyahoo about the nukes. We just bombed them last year. Would have told him to just go bomb them if he is worried about it. We have stuff to do.

Just leveled them with nukes, but we'll have to see where we're at in 3 or 4 years to properly gauge how this was handled.

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Forget having the foresight of Iran not being a major geopolitical power that most economists and military advisors warn you about—bunch of morons who scream out about resource binded straits as if they know anything.

Like Maduro, just kick the door down and see the whole rotten structure fall.

How would you have approached Iran if you were in Trump’s shoes? TD think tank unite!

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Obviously the best way to handle any ME conflicts is to try and avoid them at all costs.

Here's the conundrum expressed with a question the US has been facing since the Islamic Regime took control in 1979.

Should the US allow the Islamic Regime to develop weapons that threaten their neighbors in the ME and eventually nations around the world or does the US confront the Islamic Regime while the US still has the overwhelming military superiority to do so?

I've always believed the confrontation between the West and the Islamists is unavoidable and inevitable because the Islam at its core belief ensures the confrontation is inevitable.

I think Trump's timing to attack Iran in the run up to the 2026 midterms is a head scratcher, particularly when there is so much that needs to be addressed domestically and that will be difficult if not impossible to accomplish without control of Congress.

Trump could have given Israel the green light to carry out any military activities against their neighboring enemies they deem necessary to ensure the sovereignty of Israel. The US should continue to provide military weaponry and intelligence to Israel but otherwise avoid direct involvement in Israel's military activities. And when I say provide Israel with military weaponry I mean sell them the military weaponry. I'm so sick and tired of the US picking up the bulk of the tab for all the BS!!!