Last year (2025) marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Both Germany and Japan recovered fairly quickly, and are both fabulous societies today--and have been since the war ended.
But for the first year or so of WW2, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japanese forces won almost every battle against the U.S. and our allies. Their troops and officers were well equipped and knew what they were doing. By contrast, after the end of WW1 U.S. politicians had essentially dismantled our military. So we went in under-trained and poorly equipped, and the results showed it. But after heroic efforts for nearly four years, with virtually every American supporting the war, the allies won.
And in the 81 years since 1945, both Germany and Japan have been model nations, and solid allies.
But it should be obvious to all rational adults that today doesn't in any way resemble 1941 to 1945: Today Americans are equally divided between leftists, who believe America is evil, awful...and those who love this country. Mull that over for a bit.
In 1941 every American rallied around FDR. Today American leftists--half of the public--fiercely hate Trump. "Orange Hitler," eh? "No kangs [sic]"
In 1941--after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,500 Americans and sank every American battleship--not a single American media outlet supported either Germany or Japan--as you'd expect. By huge contrast, today the Left and their Dem-fellating Media allies repeatedly bleat that the U.S. is eeeevil and that Iran has defeated the U.S. And all leftists believe it, even though it's utter horseshit--at least militarily.
But American Media rooting for Iran is only part of the difference. There's another huge difference: In 1941 Germany and Japan didn't have a huge presence in the U.S. But today--on the 25th anniversary of the most devastating attack on the U.S. since Pearl Harbor, Muslims have dozens of strong supporters in congress and the Media, and mosques in every state.
Point is, since 1990 or so Islam has been at war with the U.S. But before Trump, no U.S. political leader admitted it. If you're not willing to admit you've been attacked, you can't realistically expect to defeat your attacker, eh?
SO...predictions: Because Dems in congress, the Media and about half the American public refuse to support Trump's efforts to defeat the current combatant Islamic nation, future presidents will be even less willing to stand up to Islamic attacks--cuz the Media will scream that the president is Hitler. And because we've refused to unleash our full power on Iran, they have no reason to surrender. If that's true (and it clearly is) there's only one way to stop the conflict: the U.S. pulls our forces out--which is what the Democrats and Media have been demanding.
That's coming, because this November--just 54 days from now--the Dems will win a majority in at least one chamber of congress. The Dems, the Media and the left will gloat, and will pass an appropriations bill demanding that no more funds be used for military operation is the mid-east. Other Islamic nations will be emboldened to attack U.S. assets, either overseas or here in the U.S. Democrats will win every presidential election because a majority of voters will refuse to pay an extra dollar a gallon for gasoline. The Media will wail and scream that the U.S. must not retaliate. And week by week, the west will lose ground.
Of course there's a solution, but leftist Americans and Democrats in congress will always block it. Always.
As every American should know, on December 7th, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2,500 Americans and sinking every American battleship.
Every. Battleship.
If the same pack of Democrats, leftists and Media shitheads we have today had been running things on December 7th, 1941, the Media would have wailed that it wasn't reasonable to go to war over "just" 2,500 Americans killed, and "a few ships" sunk. Dem "leaders" would have agreed, bleating "We just need to understand the 'root causes.'" (For young Americans: After the Twin Towers were destroyed and the Pentagon seriously damaged on 9/11/2001, Dem leaders said the same thing: "We need to understand the 'root causes.'" Seriously, the Democrats said that about 9/11.)
Seeing a majority of voters against going to war after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. wouldn't have declared war on Japan in 1941. And since the only reason we declared war on Germany was because that nation and Japan had declared themselves allies, we wouldn't have gone to war with Germany either!
A smart philosopher once said "Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it." [Okay, that's slightly re-worded but you get the point.] The lesson of WW2 was "Sometimes you have to go to war to keep things right--even if you know it's gonna involve spending trillions and cost thousands of American lives." (WW2 killed about 400,000 American troops.) But in WW2 we had a Dem president, and the Media loved FDR, so he could declare war and congress would vote to support his declaration.
But today the Media and Democrats in congress automatically scream bloody murder and block everything Trump does. Everything. Example: Iran had been spending hundreds of billions to "enrich" uranium to build an atomic bomb. As anyone who knows fuck-all about WW2 knows, two atom bombs ended the war with Japan.
Democrat: "Don't worry, citizen! Even if Iran got an atomic bomb, they don't have a missile able to get a bomb to the U.S. SEE? So ain't no threat! Orange Hitler is jus' tryin' t' get ya scared about nuffin' so he can seize mo' power! Really!"
People who know how about atomic bombs are made (me, seriously): "If Iran gets atomic bombs, they'll soon claim "groups unknown" stole one or two."
Democrats: "So? Why dat a problem, deplorable?"
You're idiots. Surely everyone knows about "container ships," right? A bomb hidden in one of the 8,000 to 12,000 containers on such a ship, slowly moving up-river past NYC--would take out most of Manhattan. It would make 9/11 look like a picnic.
Democrats: "Iran wud nevah doodat, cuz we could wipe that country off the map!"
Yeah, but here's the question: Would Democrats retaliate?
No. Not even close, because the Left and Media would wail "Even if we could prove dis was one of Iran's bombs, how can we possibly justify retaliating? Cuz dey tol' us it wuz stolen, SEE? So Iran din' doo dis! Nope nope nope! It wuz some mysterious third-party! SEE? So we can't possibly retaliate against dis innocent nation, killin' all doze innocent pipo! We just have to accept the cleverness of the attackers, as we did wif 9/11."
Of course we did NOT accept 9/11, but we also didn't mercilously bomb the hell out of Afghanistan. Or Saudi Arabia. So...no deterrence at all against future attacks.
If you think the Muslims didn't notice that, you're too dumb to breathe without assistance.
If Iran gets a bomb, the scenario above is almost inevitable--because the mullahs know Dems won't retaliate! (But just to be safe, the top mullahs would be out of the country for a few weeks.)
Let's review: Most Americans know virtually nothing about nuclear weapons. By contrast, folks my age entered college just 16 years after the end of WW2, when most Americans knew at least something about the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But to almost all Americans under about 60, atomic bombs are an abstraction--a concept as alien as neutrinos or black holes. They have only a vague idea about 'em--and that's perfectly understandable.
I can't fix your lack of understanding. I can tell you the truth, but you won't believe it. The only thing that can make you understand it is viewing dozens of hours of the two devastated Japanese cities. But you won't. And I get it. Cuz dat beez 'ancient history,' eh?
"Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history..."
So where does that leave us?
"Your" Mainstream Media has told you Iran wasn't trying to build an atom bomb. And you believed the Media, cuz...dey nevah lied to us before, eh? You believe the Media even after the Iranian negotiators casually smirked to our negotiators that they had 447 kg of 60%-enriched uranium. But because most Americans have no idea what that means, they simply ignore it. You have to know nuclear physics. Understandably, relatively few people do.
As a result, Americans believe the Democrat-fellating, Trump-hating media. I get it. Really.
"Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history..."
Short answer: If Iran gets an atomic bomb, they'll claim one or two were stolen, and put one on a container-ship bound for New York, after several intermediate stops. A fair chunk of lower Manhattan will be vaporized. Dems will block ANY retaliation--"Cuz we can't be sure Iran is responsible!"
And I get it, really. We can't in good conscience kill tens of thousands of innocent Iranians who had no say in killing tens of thousands of Americans, eh? Except that's exactly what we did to end WW2, and it worked. Sucks, I know, but it also likely saved 400,000 lives--250,000 Americans and another 150,000 Japanese.
Is that worth doing? Depends on your party.
"Those who refuse to learn from the lessons of history...."
Because when the Democrats/leftists/socialists refuse to retaliate--and they will--that won't be the end of it: The Iranians will spread the rumor that they arranged the whole thing to get the Great Satan to leave the mid-east and stop supporting Israel. How many other national leaders, seeing the results on NYC and fearing the same for any other nation that bucks Iran, will support any U.S. policy, eh?
Here's the hoot: I don't care.
I'm an old guy, and don't have any kids. So if it happens exactly as I've laid out above, it won't affect me a bit. And if you live far from NYC you'll think it doesn't affect YOU, cuz all the destruction was in NYC, right? And the Lying Dem-fellating Mainstream Media and the Dems will repeat that endlessly, to justify the Dems refusing to retaliate. And in some ways that's true: If you don't own real estate in Manhattan, why should you care if much of it was destroyed, eh?
Are ya starting to see why Trump bombed Iran's enrichment cascades?
No, probably not, cuz not one American out of a thousand knows what that means.
"Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it."
Either we destroy the mullahs, or NYC will be destroyed. Frankly I don't care either way.