Notably, there is a "threading the needle" scenario that Trump could be attempting right now. By bombing Iran's nuclear facilities but doing no real damage to the assets underground, he could simultaneously: 1) Appease the bloodthirsty Zionists that demand maximum bombing violence. 2) Pull the USA out of any further action, telling Israel "We already did our part." 3) Salvage his reputation among anti-war MAGA Trump supporters who would begin to forgive Trump over time if we don't get more deeply dragged into the war.

However, the success of this scenario depends on Iran withholding any retaliation targeting US military assets (bases or ships, etc.) in the region. Whether Iran can politically do that is anyone's guess, and then there's the possibility that Israel would carry out a false flag attack against a US base to blame it on Iran in order to drag the US back into the conflict no matter what.

I have no idea if this is what Trump is attempting to achieve, but from reports in Iran, it looks like no significant new actual damage was achieved on the underground nuclear infrastructure (although surface structures are of course destroyed but easily rebuilt). Thus, Trump didn't actually bomb anything that counts. In other words, in this interpretation, it was all theater. Scott Ritter is all over this with his "Ritter's Rant" episode on YT.

A scenario that deeply concerns me: The USA bombs the Fordow fuel enrichment plant with multiple KINETIC bunker busters, followed by a single NUCLEAR BOMB. In doing this, they succeed in destroying the facility, but they unleash a massive radiation cloud that devastates the population of the region and spills over to neighboring countries as well. Much like a Chernobyl incident in Iran. But rather than owning up to what they did, U.S. officials deny they used a nuclear weapon and blame the radiation on the Fordow enriched uranium getting blown up, and Fox News and all of corporate media go along with the Big Lie. But the radioisotope signatures are completely different from a weapon detonation, and it won't take long for Russia, China, Iran and other nations to realize the USA just dropped a nuke -- the THIRD time the USA has done this in history. And global condemnation against the USA accelerates dramatically, while Pakistan, China and Russia gear up for a nuclear world war, and the very idea of non-proliferation is wiped away. This is my fear of where this is going, since the entire Trump cabinet is 100% controlled by Israel, including Hegseth at DoD, and they are all End Times apocalyptic cult members who welcome a nuclear annihilation scenario, as Huckabee recently seemed to tweet. We are being led into a global nuclear war by a death cult of Zionist fanatics.

Israel used to be in command of the OODA loop. Now they're on the receiving end of the FAFO loop. War is harder when your intended victims punch back.