Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
A reality check is needed here.
Does anyone really take anything Trump says at face value? We all klnow by now, surely, that the man spouts random fantasies and bs as the mood takes him and much of it is only tenuously connected to reality. Anyone with an iota of military knowlege or experience shpuld know that any claim of "completely and totally obliterated" is likely to be just hyperbole, especially when issued minutes or hours after a strike on the other side of the world on hardened targets under a mountain with no humint to back up the claim. Indeed that claim was made iirc so soon after the event that I dount even Iran had any idea of the extent of the damage. The limitations of the weapons available and the depth of rock they needed to penetrtate made it almost certain that they would probably achieve little.
Trump spouts whatever comes into his dizzy head on the spur of the moment, little he says can be taken at face value, let alone be believed as factual.
My post was somewhat satirical. Just a sobering thought to think this man is in charge of the world's largest military force and nuclear capability.