Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: BTW, when you start seeing stuff like this, the correct way to read it is that the ...

BTW, when you start seeing stuff like this, the correct way to read it is that the current leadership is WEAK. And by weak, I mean they are at risk of losing their leadership position.

So they're not asking for things with the idea that it's gonna be realistic. They're sending a message "we have balls the size of grapefruit, we're gonna fight this to the last man", and that message is for the Iranian people, because wha they're actually worried about is that they're gonna get replaced.

And if they go soft for even one second, the next guys are gonna come in and grab leadership away from them, and they're gonna be EVER MORE hardline than the last guys were.

And NOBODY can stop it, not the Americans, not the Israelis, and not the Iranians. It's a socio-political equivalent of the Dr. Strangelove Doomsday Machine.