He thinks he can force the people of Iran into a panic that will produce an overnight revolution. That won't happen, but he will say it did.
I expect the rest of the world is betting on this, that he will back off, saying he saved Iran by threatening to exterminate Iran.
But that only explains why there are no answers to your questions. It doesn't answer them. America's former allies should disown us for this. Why don't they? I don't know. I just don't know.
Putin's oligarchs were sanctioned for their support of the war on Ukraine. Corrupt politicians want those sanctions lifted.
https://euobserver.com/209226/leaked-phone-call-reveals-how-orbans-hungary-and-ficos-slovakia-helped-russian-oligarchs/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72933
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72952
Sanctions on the Republican billionaires funding MAGA is a strong recommendation.
Sanctions on the Epstein Class might just save the planet.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/morbid-symptoms-war-on-iran-and-the-epstein-class/
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/25/anand_giridharadas
https://www.jezebel.com/splinter-its-not-the-epstein-class-its-the-capitalist-class
Hungarian foreign affairs minister Péter Szijjártó, in a conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said that Budapest and Bratislava would help Russians get off the EU sanctions list. Meanwhile, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also lobbied Robert Fico in a letter on behalf of a Russian oligarch.
I was driving home, and one of the rock stations on the radio has been purchased by right wing radio and I’d didn’t know, cause I only ever listen in the car. Anyway, one of their announcers was all “ I don’t understand why liberals are so upset, it would just be tactical nukes.” And all I could think about was how easy it is to make Molotov cocktails.