The great Prussian General and renowned military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz wrote in his classic treatise ‘On War’ that the country most likely to win in a conflict is the one that recognized the concept of Total War-

That ‘proportionate’ responses only serve to PROLONG and DELAY the end of conflict because they fail to destroy the enemy’s *willpower* and *capability* to pursue and make war.

The idea/concept of Total War is that you must RESPOND to an attack so brutally, so harshly, so overwhelmingly that your enemy either loses his will to continue, or that you inflict so much damage to his ABILITY to CONTINUE to make war to the extent he cannot continue even if he has the will to keep fighting. An example of this is Truman’s will to continue to use Nuclear weapons against Japan until they gave in or could no longer fight.

Another example of this is hunting Osama Bin Laden & Al Qaeda leadership to the ends of the earth, forever. Yet another is the endless pursuit of Al-Baghdadi. And Imad Fayez Mugniyeh.

The Iranian regime has a blind spot to this b/c they’ve enjoyed relative immunity fr our wrath in spite of 40 YEARS & THOUSANDS of American victims.

The targeting & killing of Qasem Soleimani signals the American govt has revoked Iranian immunity.

Im going to explain in detail what that means.

This is a direct link to some interesting reading on Von Clausewitz.

https://sites.psu.edu/leadership/2013/02/18/total-war-von-clausewitz-and-power/

Soleimani was the successor to the most murderous and brutal terrorist that ever lived, Hezbollah #2 Imad Fayez Mugniyeh.

Mugniyeh met his end when a c-4 charge in the headrest of his mercedes SUV exploded decapitating him.

Soleimani & his comrades believed that he was immune because he was an officer in the Iranian govt paramilitary force. An official posting. Imagine if the US Govt hired someone like Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to kill Iranian civilians & soldiers. They’d be justified in killing him.

The iranians have watched for 4 decades starting w/ the take over & seizing of hostages of the US Embassy in Tehran. We never, ever responded, even proportionally.

40 years of seeing America too afraid to fight back or even defend herself from repeated Iranian attacks.

Then the game changed. The most important figure in iranian regime foreign policy & natsec matters was executed with an anti tank missile by the people he was trying to murder

The United States has awoken. The Iranian regime has gone too far. The President of the United States has warned the Iranian regime *repeatedly* for 3 years not to kill any more Americans or there would be extreme consequences.

The 40 years of inaction convinced the Iranians he wasnt serious.

The execution of Qasem Soleimani shattered that belief.

Likely tonight or tomorrow the Iranians will begin attempting to retaliate. What they don’t understand is that the same Total War philosophy now applies to Iran. The 40 years of immunity vanished the moment that katyusha rocket killed a US contractor.

I'd like to think that 56 years of proportionality vanished the moment that Katyusha rocket killed a US contractor.

Here’s what to expect next from the United States:

The President spoke publicly stating 52 targets *inside* Iran are being considered if Iran responds with violence.

Oil sites. The beating heart of the financial tool that pays for the IRGC & the terrorist operations world wide & the internal repression forces. The regime ends if we turn off the oil

The Leadership themselves.

Up until now, khameini, soleimani & others have ordered & facilitated the murder of 100s of thousands of others without fear of repercussions to themselves.

That ended the day Soleimani died.

Now, if the regime leadership continues its reign of terror, they will be risking their own lives.

Saddam Hussein. Osama Bin Laden. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Qasem Soleimani. One of their own. We found them and we killed them after they attacked us.

We are very good at finding people & khameini & everyone under him are now betting their own lives

From Delta Force, to F-35s to B-2 Spirits- we can carry out the threat, and the rule of ‘proportionality’ is now gone.

What does that mean? Im going to show you what that means. WARNING: this photo is GRAPHIC

This is whats left of Qasem Soleimani. This is what the rest of the Iranian leadership are now subject to. The days of immunity from response are over. We will do whatever it takes to end the Iranian regimes reign of terror. Let this serve as a warning.

The Iranian regime is a theocratic Dictatorship. Ayatollah Khameini is the top man who runs it all. He is what they, and he believes, is a God King. There is no order of succession of the government.

If the United States destroys the pipelines Iran uses to bring oil to its tankers for export, the regime goes bankrupt over night, and the IRGC, Basij, & MOSI thugs Khameini uses to murder his people & suppress uprisings lose everything. No more paychecks.

You can bet everything you have that Khameini doesnt want to be a martyr. He wants to keep on living & continue being a dictator who is all powerful in his oppressed country.

And if Khameini dies, the regime dies with him. There is no ‘plan b’.

If the Iranian Regime wants to kill more Americans, the Regime itself will find itself in jeopardy- starting w the dictator himself.

Welcome to Total War, @khameini.ir

You’ve been warned.