Open thread 3/19/2026
She has single jumps and not many of them. But just look at those spins and how she stops on a dime. I have no idea how she did it and I don’t think anyone can do it today:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
“Republicans overwhelmingly back Trump over Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly on Iran war, poll finds“—
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/republicans-overwhelmingly-back-trump-over-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-on-iran-war-poll-finds/
(This was referred to in an earlier comment.)
One might hope that the amount of this support will increase once the country’s / orgs that are funding the vociferous, odoriferous woke-Right miscreants are exposed.
Looks like Iran still has some fight left in attacking its neighbor’s energy infrastructure now. The strategy is clear: hold the world hostage economically. Trump threatens to destroy their energy infrastructure in retaliation, which to me, plays into Iran’s hand. Obviously, not enough of their missiles and drones have been destroyed; needs to be taken down to zero before Iran will stop. Oil heading to $130 I think.
To be clear, I’m all for staying the course. We now seem to be in the stage where the enemy is desperate and willing to do anything just to go down in flames. Hard to find an end when up against such a mindset that requires we totally destroy such. Not rational people.
Iran without Kharg Island has no hands.
Stay non-wobbly.
Great 1 min. speech about choosing life over death by Douglas Murray
https://twitter.com/i/status/2034395349419212876
(ht Instapundit)
The Dems focus on the price of oil is interesting — saving Iranians from IRGC oppression is not good because … of oil! Gotta stop the attack because of oil!
Low cost oil is SOOOO important, even if it means the evil regime retains power and rebuilds to support more terrorism & even nukes, later.
Such intellectual hypocrites, just 20 years ago falsely claiming Bush was attacking Iraq for one reason — oil!
I’m for regime change now, and also sad that more Dems weren’t for regime change in Iran, too, in 2006.
How many know when the last Iraq elections were? Who the new Iraq president is? — I don’t, without looking it up. Iraq is not causing big problems, no news is good news. Getting rid of Hussein was good in the short term, and now even in the long term. Fails to solve the Arab Sunni vs Shia split, fails to give Kurds a homeland. Those aren’t problems solvable by the US; well, the first isn’t.
On Trump threatening to blow up Iran’s infrastructure, part of me takes it as just words. Negotiations. Not clear that IRGC leaders, now trying to destroy neighbor Sunni oil, will care that much if they’re losing anyway, but it’s clear a lot of their support is based on the money they spread to their military. Without the money, the numbers of fighters are certain to go down. If the oil infrastructure is destroyed, the fighters won’t get paid, and they have to know they won’t get paid … likely even more of them will switch sides. With guns*.
Yet maybe Trump is negotiating, in public, with the EU leaders. If they aren’t willing to use little they have to protect the straights, maybe destroying Iran’s oil production & cash mean the regime changes faster & fewer Americans die. And then Europe & China are stuck with higher world market prices, not so bad for American competitiveness.
Then, after Iran regime change, and maybe Cuba regime change, with more world peace except in Ukraine, the higher price of oil starts coming down & there is no big US recession.
I don’t support this, but it’s an attempt to steelman the idea that Trump should destroy Iran’s oil. While I think the downsides are worse, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some upsides.
Another link agrees with my Iran is weak thesis, despite their continued missiles.
The Islamic Republic prepared for the moment when its center would be hit, and its command structure would fracture. In that scenario, regional units keep firing, security forces keep repressing, and the state projects fragments of normality even as central control collapses. The activation of these mechanisms is evidence that the system has entered its collapse phase, not escaped it. What we are seeing is not resilience, but a regime preserving violence and surface function long enough to outlast the political patience of its adversaries.
https://parpanchi.substack.com/p/what-looks-like-resilience-in-iran
60-90 days should be enough for regime change. But not 20, nor even 40. Those calling for an end to the war before regime change are allies of the IRBC killers.
Smartest strategy by Trump is to minimize American deaths.
Short term pain for long term gain. Poo