Trump thought overwhelming pressure would force Iran to surrender.
It hasn’t.
Instead, the war is expanding, oil prices are rising, allies are stepping back, and Iran is doing exactly what weaker enemies are built to do, survive, disrupt, and outlast.
In this episode of Tactical Truth, former UKSF operator Phil Campion breaks down why this conflict isn’t playing out the way many expected… and why it may now be slipping beyond clean control.
This isn’t just about airstrikes or military strength.
This is about strategy, asymmetric warfare, and whether the US has walked into a fight it doesn’t fully control.
If you want to understand what’s really happening behind the headlines — this is the breakdown you need to watch.
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Is this controlled escalation… or a war starting to slip?
This guy talks more sense in 10 minutes than I have heard coming out of the WH since this war started. The US are fighting one war, but Iran are fighting a different war.
Krasnov has bitten into a shit sandwich.
He and his equally foolish advisers believed that the Iranian people would rise up and do his job for him. No doubt many of them; likely the majority, want rid of the izlamonazi regime.
But how are they expected to do that, against a heavily armed state?
It’s only when the military switch sides that it becomes possible. Problem is that the military believe in the same nazi ideology as the ayatollahs.
The same situation in putlerstan : how do you get rid of putler when the military back him?
We saw an uprising from PrickGoesIn, but even if he had not been tricked by his ex bum chum and reached Moscow, what then? The clue is in the name of his murder gang. They are nazis, so there would have been little or no difference in terms of genocidal attitude to Ukraine.
Krasnov either has to back off in order to save us all from economic catastrophe, or he has to go all in and demilitarise/defang Iran once and for all.
If the latter, the cost to the world’s economy is incalculable; entirely due to them not immediately taking over Hormuz and Kharg Island.
I was watching a video from an ex US military guy and he said taking Kharg Island and defending it would be near impossible. There is one runway which could be taken out by the Iranians, which would cause a huge headache for the US in supplying any troops. The island is only 20km from the Iranian mainland, but 150km from any country the US could strike from. If the Iranians decided to destroy the oil terminal there, then it would be pointless trying to take the island anyway.