Trump’s Waterloo

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Trump’s Waterloo

Like Napoleon at Waterloo, President Trump has been overtaken by events.

Michael C. Hurley | May 28, 2026

On June 18, 1815, the morning of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte said to his troops: “I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad troops, and this affair will be over by breakfast.” By that evening, Napoleon’s troops were fleeing in defeat, and less than a month later, Napoleon himself surrendered to British custody on the deck of the HMS Bellerophon. He would never again know a day of freedom. For all of Napoleon’s flaws, a lack of confidence was never one of them.

In a Truth Social post at 3 a.m. on January 2, 2026, as protesters gathered in the streets of Tehran to demand regime-change, a supremely confident President Trump made this remarkable boast to the Iranian people: “If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters … the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

Iran did indeed kill peaceful protesters—some 30,000 of them—and within two months, Mr. Trump had assembled off the coast of Iran the greatest armada the world has known. Then, on February 28, 2026, the first day of the current war, and while still basking in the adulation of the world for the brilliant operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, a triumphant President Trump gave this message to our enemies in Iran in a televised nationwide address:

    To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death.

In the same speech, Trump made this invitation to the long-suffering people of Iran:

    America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass . . . When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.

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Trump has not been overtaken by events.  He F'ed up.  He had tactical plans, but did not have a strategic plan.

It's  common sense that the Iranian regime won't surrender.

It's common sense that the Iranian regime would use the Strait of Hormuz for strategic leverage.

It's common sense that the Iranian regime will wait out the Congressional mid-term elections in the hopes that Dems will take Congress.

The Iranian people have no reason to trust that American will have their backs all the way to end.

It will take a combination of armed insurgency and a campaign of assassination to dislodge the IGRC from power.

In WWII, once someone was identified as SS (usually by their blood type being tatooed by their armpit), they were executed.  The IGRC are Iran's SS, and they need to be dealt with as such.

To defeat the Iranian regime, it's a dirty war to the death.

Any Internet, jackass, arm-chair, Monday-morning analyst could see that dropping bombs would be insufficient to dislodge the IGRC from power.

The Iraqi's did not fight for Western-style "democracy".  The Afghani's did not fight for Western-style "democracy".  The Iranian people will not fight for Western-style "democracy".  We'll need to replace a hostile despotic regime with a friendly despotic regime.  This is what it will take to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power.