Unconditional surrender will take boots on the ground.
Trump Says No Iran Deal Until ‘Unconditional Surrender’
Truth Social: There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Please note the US has not declared war yet. And declaration of war is the constitutional responsibility of Congress, not the president.
We Are Not at War
Russia Sharing Intelligence
Trump Demands Unconditional Surrender
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Says No Iran Deal Until ‘Unconditional Surrender’
President Trump said the U.S. would hold out for what he called an unconditional surrender and “acceptable” leadership before making a deal with Iran. In a post on Truth Social, he said that the U.S. and allies would “work tirelessly” to strengthen Iran’s economy.
Earlier, the Israeli military said it was moving to the “next phase” of its campaign. Shortly afterward, it launched a wave of attacks on regime infrastructure in Tehran and pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes that it said were targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. The Israeli military also said it had “dismantled” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s military bunker with roughly 50 jet fighters.
U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed dozens of children in Iran, a U.S. official said. The investigation hasn’t reached a final conclusion, the official said.
Shajarah Tayyebeh Girls’ School, in the town of Minab near the Strait of Hormuz, was hit Saturday on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli air campaign in what appears to be the deadliest strike of the war. Iran said the strike killed more than 160 people, including many children, a figure that couldn’t be independently verified
New Non-War Details
- U.S. military investigators think American forces were likely responsible for an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed dozens of children in Iran, according to a U.S. official.
- Russia is sharing location information on U.S. military forces in the Middle East with Iran, U.S. officials say.
- Saudi Arabia said it intercepted ballistic missiles aimed at Prince Sultan Air Base, and Qatar said it intercepted a drone attack targeting the U.S. Al‑Udeid Air Base.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said some countries “have begun mediation efforts” but didn’t specify which countries.
- The U.S. said it is allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil for 30 days, while Kuwait is cutting production at some oil fields over a storage crisis. Brent crude futures, the benchmark for global oil prices, rose above $90 a barrel.
- Nearly 24,000 Americans Return to U.S. from Middle East
OOPS
Cost Is $2 Billion Per Day
Politico says some Republicans are being told the Pentagon could be burning through as much as $2 billion a day in Trump’s war with Iran. That is happening while the United States is already carrying nearly $38.9 trillion in total public debt, according to Treasury data.
And this is only the opening bill. Reuters has reported that U.S. planners were already preparing for operations that could last weeks, while also warning that any sustained campaign against Iran would bring much greater risks to U.S. forces and a wider regional war.
At the same time, Iran is rejecting ceasefire talks and openly signaling that it is ready for American ground troops if they come. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is “waiting for them” and called a U.S. ground invasion a “big disaster” for American forces.
So the picture is pretty clear: a country drowning in debt is pouring billions into a war that could get longer, bloodier, and far more expensive, while Iran appears to be holding back from full escalation and daring Washington to go one step further.
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Iran will quickly surrender to an alleged “non-war” (or a real one) without US troops on the ground.
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Ground troops can probably do the job given air support. It won’t be fun for the 82 nd or 101st airborne divisions. The Iranians aren’t Hamas or the Iraqi’s, these people are smart and have a long history of empire. what a mess! Israel first!
Mendacious Witkoff was already talking about his consternation that Iran did not want to “capitulate” before the war even started.
Plan A was that with a big enough show of force, Iran would capitulate.
All shows that these people simply do not have a grip.
Shall we inspect one line that cause me some anxiety:
“Iran said the strike killed more than 160 people, including many children, a figure that couldn’t be independently verified..”
ALL OF THE DESTRUCTION AND KILLING THAT IS ACCEPTABLE IS NOT: “independently verified..”
Interesting and not baffling and SO MUCH LIKE THE EMPIRE TO ACT THIS WAY.
That’s what we voted for. MIGA. Make Iran Great Again.
I’ve read from an American in China source that we, the US, are so short on gallium for radars that the latest F35’s are being delivered sans radars making them very expensive paperweights. These mental midgets in the current administration may be years away from building a lot of critical military equipment due to lack of rare earths, an issue Mish has been pointing out for years if not a decade.
AI generated answer: “Recent reports (as of February 2026) indicate that U.S. F-35 fighters are being delivered without their advanced, next-generation radar systems due to supply chain, technical, and production delays, with some aircraft reportedly fitted with ballast in place of the radar. While some reports and analysts link these, and broader, defense industry issues to shortages of critical materials like gallium, which is under export restrictions from China, others emphasize that the immediate issue is a production delay of the specific AN/APG-85 radar, which uses gallium nitride (GaN) components.”
They will use them anyway and just kill CITIZENS.
One possibly rational logic being discussed for this war is to take control of Chinese oil and so give Trump leverage in his discussions with Xi in the next few weeks.
At least it is logical unlike the nonsense coming out of the administration.
Sorry the civilians being killed so that Trump can win in a pissing competition.
Unconditional surrender? Sounds like FDR. I think this was why WWII dragged on so long. Make the conditions of surrender so difficult that it forces the other side to keep fighting. Not a good strategy Donald if you want a quick war. This will ensure that the US will need to put boots on the ground.
Then to add on top of that Trump gets to pick the new leader. That is not democracy Donald and it will surely mean the war will drag on. Even the Iranians that wanted the US to invade will be against that one.
Wait a minute I smell TACO’s.
“Make the conditions of surrender so difficult that it forces the other side to keep fighting.”
You need to brush up a little bit more on your world war II history. This is a good guess but it is not entirely accurate. The Japanese were not ever going to surrender. Hitler, like Trump, was too narcissistic to understand what was happening.
Has there ever been a more incompetent and unqualified president of the US who proved it in such a relatively brief part of time?
I’m not sure that the qualifier of limited time makes any difference. He may be the most incompetent and unqualified president in our history.
And the guy that downvotes you needs a rethink.
Trump is begging Iranians to rise up against their government.
Sorry, miserably fail.
Trump is asking Kurds to rise up against Iranian government.
Sorry, miserably fail again.
GCC countries are not attacking Iran even thou they are attacked by Iran
cos they know – Iran is actually attacking US and Israel.
Asian countries tolerate rising oil price
cos they know why Hormuz choke point is closed.
European allies are not coming to rescue you
cos they know this war is illegal, foolish and losing.
Sorry, very sorry Mr Trump – Muslim world and whole world are united against you and Israel.
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I am not sure what the point of these comments from republicans republicans is. They know they are lying, We know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, and we know they know that we know they are lying. So whyTF bother?
The stupids believe anything you repeat enough times.
They are performing for an audience of 1, Trump.
I don’t watch any of the news on the war. It’s all fake.
Almost. I do watch Al Jazeera and a few other foreign news organizations. According to news organizations outside of the United States, we suck, we are terrible, we are the problem.
I’m not finding anybody who thinks we’re just all fabulous and lovely
Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
Does this remind you of anyone?
In this case, an entire administration!
Plus its MAGA cult voter base…
It sounds like mostly smart-alecry to me, because everyone thinks he is the one with greater knowledge. It’s like “behaviorism,” in which dumb teachers treat their pupils as stimulus-response units, while assuming that they themselves can think.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck. “Trump is playing4D chess” means “we can’t make any sense of this so we’ll spout this to make him look intelligent” So far history proves Trump has never been playing chess in any dimension he’s been doing dumb shit the media and his cult cover up for.
Trump is really stupid, is he? Are you a billionaire? Are you President of the United States? The second might be luck. I don’t think the first can be.
Has anyone noticed that this time the war has not produced any “flight to US Treasuries” at all?
As Scooby would say, “Ruh-roh”.
Interest rates have gone up. However so far the dollar has risen 2%.
I do not expect that to last. Especially if we get another credit downgrade.
Another downgrade of US debt is a rational outcome of all of this reckless warmongering and insane BBB spending.
Anybody that downgrades gets drone striked. Problem solved.
Very funny!
When grampa’s out in the yard in his tightly whities, blazing away with his AR at the liberals in the trees, you DON’T hand him more mags.
The financial repercussions of this war, coupled with the repayments of illegally collected tariffs, increased BBB spending, and the refinancing of over $ 9 trillion in current debt at higher interest rates is a massive burden on available investment capacity.
Imagine collecting 4% interest on a dollar that depreciates 5% and you pay tax on the 4%. No Thanks to US Treasuries and bonds.
During WWI,when the German government could no longer borrow money from investors at reasonable interest rates, the German central bank became the buyer of last resort. Within a few years, the German mark collapsed. Is the US headed for the same catastrophe?
Of course
I guess that depends on whether or not the treaty demands reparations or not.
The war didn’t end because Germany couldn’t borrow money. The war ended because the blockades were starving the nation but in civilian and military supply chains.
One thing that has changed in the past 100 years is the supply chains. A few well-placed supply chain shortages will bring the United States to their knees. Interestingly, phosphorus is one. Our industrialized farming depends on it.
Absolutely no regard for the truth or accountability. They count on chaos to disorient observers and allies alike.
This is a dangerous administration.
Trump and his advisors are lunatics. We, the US, don’t have a big enough military to invade Iran on the ground. It would take us several years to build it up big enough. Iran is a little smaller than 4x the size of Iraq in 2003 and a helluva lot stronger from many perspectives. And these idiots are running the risk of uniting the entire muslim population in the Middle East against Israel and the US.
Expecting that the MAGA Team does not take Iran for Iraq is expecting too much.
I would argue that war with Islam is the goal and the war is a religious one. Judaism and Christianity will be defended at all cost.
It’s for MIGA Make Iran Great Again….
He is saying that negotiations are no longer possible. The mullahs expected the standard ‘few-strikes-and-then-negotiate’ routine. For them it is a sudden cold shower. It’s for keeps this time. Good riddance.
The mullahs said no to a ceasefire early this week. All the orange dotard is saying is for MAGA consumption. You are evidence #31415 that his shibboleths still work like a charm with his cult.
A cease-fire wasn’t offered.
Oh Dougie, I can tell this is hard for you. The cognitive dissonance must be at unbearable levels.
Hang in there. I love watching you wriggle as you twist in the wind.
This is an acceleration of the PNAC. Both parties have been working on execution of this plan for decades. Trump has been more overt. The US is used to funding opposition then making sure our candidate wins elections. That takes time but the desired result is the same as Trump’s plan. Cuba is next. It also explains why democratic presidents have neo-con tendencies. From a geo-political standpoint: THEY ARE THE SAME PARTY
I don’t agree with any of this but that’s what they’re executing.
Gen. Wesley Clark: Seven Countries in Five Years
https://genius.com/General-wesley-clark-seven-countries-in-five-years-annotated
Donny is human folly in one big shitbag. Im running out of ways to imagine how he could possibly make things worse. And its been so obvious for so long, and yet people still support him! Hard to understand without thinking alot of the human race is moronic
By definition, half of the population has an IQ below 100. That is, half the population is closer to clinical mental retardation than to intelligence.
Donny has gone into the bat shit delusional phase of narcissism
When you think if you wish or say something, it automatically translates into reality.
Errm…“legally speaking”, not a war….errm
This is Trump’s Waterloo.
Let’s celebrate with the help of ABBA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4&t=3s
To early to determine if he is Wellington or Bonaparte.
I remain confident that Trump’s hubris will be his undoing.
He made an incredible mistake in Trump 2.0 by surrounding himself with lackeys for cabinet secretaries.
Iran is proving to be a much more difficult enemy than imagined. I think last year’s play attack lulled Trump into a false sense of security, so he didn’t take the current attack nearly as seriously as he should have.
You could call it the Mid-East Rope-A-Dope.
He’s more like Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
The reference to ABBA 🤮 made me hesitate to up vote your comment.
ABBA is just so incredibly good, I don’t really listen to anything else anymore.
New music is just Autotuned, AI’d slop. Written by commitee for talent-free performers.
I’m a very late convert, but the more you know about ABBA, the more you can appreciate their talent. Lots of ABBA documentaries on YouTube.
Here’s one that was part of their 1994 box set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwFHNFQfaHI&t=135s
When ABBA came together, the stars must surely have aligned & lightning hit the exact same spot four times somewhere in Sweden.
Love watching their documentaries!
Massie just being disingenuous for the cameras & public. Israel campaign not going forward as expected. AIPAC will be twisting arms nearing the 60 day police action by POTUS or it will wind down as POTUS pulls back similar to deferring to SC.
Girls school tragic. Israel on news blackout.
NO1 at Gold & Geopolitics: That’s roughly one dead Iranian for every five airstrikes. Either Iran’s air defence is doing more work than anyone’s admitting, or most of these “precision strikes” are hitting empty buildings. And paintings. Let’s not forget the paintings.
Presidential approval polls have always gone up when the U.S. goes to war. This will be the first time they don’t.
Breaking: Trump admin announces $20 billion reinsurance program for oil tankers during Iran war
“We are confident that our reinsurance plan will get oil, gasoline, LNG, jet fuel, and fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz and flowing again to the world,”
I have complete confidence the plan will fail.
I think you are right about the polls uniquely (after war initiation) going down. We voted for “the peace candidate”, not the lying turd we got.
Maybe there is pedagogical value here: Maybe people will finally realize the Swamp (strengthened by Trump rather than cleaned out) is essentially organized crime pretending it is something else.
Pro-Israeli sentiment has never been lower in all demographics,
save for the cohort that is about to fall of the cliff (natural expiration).
I think you are right.
Zionists have controlled US media since the early 1930s. US taxpayers figured out during the Faucian Dystopia that if the US media says something, it is likely a lie. And also, the evangelical Christians, so carefully seduced by the Zionists, are shrinking as a proportion of the population. And not a few people are put off by genocide. 80,000 dead Gazans without an actual battle gives a distinctive slaughter smell.
My statement about sentiment was based on polls.
But you too are correct.
Unconditional surrender demands are not just stupid because it would require boots on the ground, while totally contradicting the (specious) administration claim that the US is not at war with Iran. It will also prolong the war because the Iranian side has nothing left to lose. Many historians believe that Germany and Japan kept fighting during WW2 well after it was clear that they had lost the war because of the allies‘ unconditional surrender demands.
And Japan did not have religious zealots that demanded everyone martyr themselves for Islam. But after Afghanistan, 20 years occupation and final result of Taliban running the country, what would be the point anyway?
Qatar saying oil going to hit $150.
oh the profits….
What are the survival chances of those boots?
Will we try amphibious or helicopter landings adjacent to Hormuz?
Iran withstood eight years of war with a USA backed Iraq. Iraq had weapons and deadly gas supplied by the USA. Iran had nothing. So you think they are worried about the US bombing lots of empty buildings? Sure the initial attack killed a lot of their leaders but since then pffft.
If American troops are deployed drones and ied’s will kill thousands.
Now if we could find a Great and Acceptable leader….
Putin already has a job.
We’re not at war but Trump wants unconditional surrender huh?
There’s only one place this level of dumbness exists, it’s in 5D (5 dimensions of dumb) thinking. Us mere mortals don’t understand this level of thinking because we’re limited to 3 dimensions of dumb but MAGA has 2 additional dimensions of extraordinary dumbness.
Proof is in the pudding every day.
2-Star Mishelin award granted for informative post pointing out the logical contradictions.
Interesting only the transponder flying out of Israel….to bad we can’t have a word with the pilot. Doubtful he was maintaining radio silence the entire flight Odd it wasn’t pointed out to him. Not a issue with any of the carrier flight operations.
You Tube Video Stealth Jet at Sea – Real F-35C Operations Aboard US Navy Carriers
Governor Trump and the boys need muzzling PDQ.
And how did Japan unconditionally surrender without US ground troops? With this half cocked (the 13-14 year-old in the 302 form probably bit half of it off), nothing-to-lose, narcissistic, rapidly-aging octogenarian, don’t be surprised if nuclear weapons aren’t in his neural network echo chambers(after dealing Putin all of Ukraine and maybe the Baltic states and green flagging Taiwan to Xi). The October or earlier worse case scenario: use of fission weapons, martial law, employment of the insurrection act, and suspension of elections – merely a logical extension of 6 January activity.
“And how did Japan unconditionally surrender without US ground troops”
Wow, where did you get your education?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan
Troops arrived AFTER they had surrendered. They were just there to enforce the surrender terms.
“Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945″
But we’re not at war anyway so why would Iran surrender?
Here’s another thought, had either the revered emperor of Japan been killed by US bombing/targeting and/or no nuclear weapons used, Japan would likely have fought on, with the ground invasion estimated to incur 100-300K KIA and about a million US causalities. My dad would have gone from Bastogne and Germany to Japan. Japan had a population of 72 million in 1945, Iran, a population of about 90 million in 2026. 90-95% of the Iranian population are Shia, and the US/Israel just assassinated their pope-equivalent during bogus perfidious negotiations. What do suppose the US casualty rate would be for a ground invasion in Iran?
According to Iranian sources, 30 Israeli and Usonian special forces were killed trying to enter the country. It’s probably asking too much of the cadre running the country, but do not take Iran for Iraq.
Nothing in the news… I guess we aren’t going to mark the sacrifices of those particular heroes.
So nice of Donny to allow India to buy Russian oil. Is there anyone still out there that hasn’t figured out yet that the US is the problem, not everyone else?
Donny is the problem. The people that tolerate him staying in th White House must share the blame for allowing him to stay there.
honestly this could not be stupider or more corrupt and evil. You can’t even satirize it.
You haven’t read very much history, have you?