Peloni: About a week ago, I wrote that we were on the edge of a precipice. Today, we are venturing onto the other side. As J.E. Dyer captures so well in this article, we are limited from anticipating exactly what will come to be on the other side, as the existence of the Iranian regime and its tentacles of slaughter and mayhem have been a guiding constant over the past half century, and its malicious impact has shaped the world in many significant ways during that period. Yet we can be certain that what comes next will be a very different reality than we have known, as many geopolitical givens are destined to be undone or at least re-envisioned when the Islamic regime refused to alter its malicious undertakings. As its last breaths come to be drawn in the coming days, we will be facing the birth of a new reality in which Trump will leave a very important mark on the world as we come to realize the nature and character of this coming undiscover country of tomorrow, much as Bismarck had in the 19th Century as Dyer notes below. This fact places a great onus as well as an important impact on the decisions which guide Trump in choosing this path. With a greater interest in establishing stability than on expanding liberal convictions, which marked his choices in Venezuela, the new world order in this tomorrow-land may come to be quite foreign and somewhat bizarre from what we might otherwise expect. What is certain is that the US influence will be integral to what is and is not included in the changes to come, and yet, as powerful as the US is, and as impactful as the persona of Trump can be, many other factors and voices will come to cement the parameters which will create this world. I am emboldened by the fact that Trump has recently announced his demand of Unconditional Surrender of the Iranian Islamic regime, as they should have no input into anything which comes next. Yet the diabolical Iranian Islamist regime is not the only malicious influence potentially in play in deciding this new reality, nor is it the only diabolical influence likely to be involved, nor even perhaps the only Islamist influence either.
Expect change, and manage it.
J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, Mar 5, 2026
The Tower of Babel (detail), Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563. (Via Wikipedia)
Most coverage of Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion is so rapidly emerging and quickly ephemeral that it’s best suited to a post on X. Not that much is worth thrashing out at greater length. We’re in such unfamiliar territory that most of people’s guiding experiences don’t really fit the current situation very well.
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), U.S. President Jimmy Carter (center), and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shakes hands at the conclusion of the Camp David Peace Accords signing ceremony as Israel ceded some 23, 000 acres of land to Egypt.. By Not know or unknown – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ground forces. By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
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