I still fail to see the reason this was started.
trump announces that Iran is 2 weeks from having a nuclear weapon. he starts bombing. Then he announces they are 50 years away.
Then a few months later, they are back to being 2 weeks from having a nuclear weapon. And we are bombing again. This time the Strait is closed. 50 years goes by in a few months?
According to all sources that I know, the nuclear material is buried so deeply underground that the only people that can get it are the US...
I really do not see how the US could get it. Or more accurately, I do not see how we could get it at a reasonable price in blood and treasure.
Isfahan is about 500 miles from the closest American base. Everything would have to be flown in. It would be completely surrounded by enemy ground forces that would be attacking in mass, and massively attacking through infiltration. Because the planes would be carrying in supplies, they would have to fly low, and be susceptible to ground fire. The only obvious solution is to expand the area around the airfield occupied, which mean more ground forces, and more supplies.
And we really do not have a full understanding of the new military technologies we would be facing.
Meanwhile, given time, the Iranians can slowly dig down to anything. The Iranians have nothing but time. The dug these tunnels by hand in the first place, they can re-dig these tunnels by hand...
Or can just refine new uranium. trump let them get the break out technology, and it really is not possible to get it back.
“That stuff is so far down under a mountain. It's a granite mountain that collapsed on top of it... take months to get it out. Uh I think it's a tremendous success... nobody is going to be able to get it except us (the U.S.) because we have the equipment.”
Weeks... Months... Whatever. The US does not even want to occupy part of the middle of Iran for days. Hours we can get away with, but there is no way hours will do it.
Meanwhile, Iranians have years. They built the tunnels in the first place, and can build those tunnels again. They certainly have the time, people, expertise, and even equipment.
The reality is the operation that dropped that mountain on top of the nuclear material happened nearly a year before the start of this war.
If the Iranians are 50 years from getting a nuclear weapon, why did a war have to begin? I know you do not have the answer to that question. I doubt anyone does.
trump does not seem to be thinking things through.