🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 In what might be some of the most powerful footage to come out of today, Israelis and Iranians are dancing and celebrating side by side in the streets of London.pic.twitter.com/MF1WndQiNM https://t.co/xkAaUZcm65
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 28, 2026
More from Tehran tonight pic.twitter.com/ssputF9E4t
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 28, 2026
In theory, I don’t mind killing atrocious dictators, but the question remains: Is there a plan after? Because now the son is in power? Is he going to be killed as well? What if another hardliner comes to power after him? Keep playing wack-a-mole and keep on killing them indefinitely, even if this doesn’t change the underlying regime structure?
This is why I’m wondering if, in the event that the current air campaign does not succeed in imposing regime change in Ukraine (through a popular revolt), the US should just sent ground troops into Iran to finish the job, if it has already got itself involved into this mess? A lot of Iranians don’t like the current Iranian regime, after all, and Iran doesn’t have the high fertility that Iraq and Afghanistan (or even Vietnam) had that would sustain a long-lasting insurgency even if some pro-regime elements there would have actually had the desire to do this. A US ground invasion of Iran and subsequent reconstruction of Iran might be expensive, but what’s the alternative? To keep on playing cat-and-mouse with them like the US/West did with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq between 1991 and 2003 before it finished the job and overthrew him for good?