Trump Considers Ending the Iran Operation, and Everyone at the White House Is Relieved: The Cards Are Exposed!
On March 8, 2026, Trump told Israeli media that he would make a final decision to end the military action against Iran "at the right time." This statement is estimated to have brought relief to everyone at the White House. Throughout this operation against Iran, a notable phenomenon was the extremely low profile of Vice President J.D. Vance. As a potential successor aiming for the 2028 election, Vance is known for his shrewdness, but during this crisis, his presence seemed to disappear almost completely.
This deliberate distance was not accidental. Vance knew that the military action against Iran was a high-risk gamble. If the operation succeeded, the glory would go to Trump; if it failed or got bogged down, he would inevitably be implicated, thus damaging his 2028 campaign. Faced with Iran's strong counterattacks and the limited capacity of U.S. defense industry, Vance may have already anticipated that this operation would not achieve a decisive victory.
Dog Ge believes that feedback from the U.S. domestic military-industrial complex directly shattered the physical foundation of war. When Trump urgently called in top U.S. defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman, he issued an almost impossible task: to quadruple the production capacity of relevant weapons and ammunition in a short period. These people certainly complained about the current capacity of the U.S. defense industry, and now the U.S. industrialization can no longer support such a large-scale attack.
Modern defense production is not simply a matter of speeding up the assembly line. The complexity of the supply chain, the shortage of skilled workers, and the limitations of raw materials make "quadrupling production" an empty promise in the short term. Dog Ge believes that the feedback from the executives of the defense companies clearly made Trump realize the severity of the issue: the U.S. is not prepared for a prolonged, high-intensity consumption war. It's time to take advantage of the slope, even though the best slope has already been missed.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859171461685452/
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