https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/03/01/march-1-day-two/#more-397592
.....The domestic politics. Reuters/Ipsos polling shows only one in four Americans support the strikes on Iran. That’s a country that doesn’t want this war. Congress is voting on war powers resolutions this week, though they’ll be largely symbolic since they lack the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. But the optics matter. Senator Tim Kaine: “No direct threat from Iran, no justification”. Senator Ted Cruz – not exactly a dove – noted there was “no indication Iran was close to nuclear weapons”. Congressman Thomas Massie: “Bombing Iran won’t make the Epstein documents disappear”. When you’ve lost Ted Cruz on a military operation, the political foundation is sand.
And Trump’s timeline? He told CNBC operations are “ahead of schedule”. He told CBS’s Robert Costa that a diplomatic resolution was “much easier now than it was a day ago, obviously, because they are getting beat up badly”. He said he knows “exactly who” is calling the shots in Iran now, “but I can’t tell you”. He warned Iran of “force never seen before”. He said the military campaign could extend for four weeks. He’s also reportedly already asked Iran for a ceasefire through back channels – on day one. Iran rejected it as they seem to believe that agreeing to the June 2025 ceasefire was a strategic error that gave the US and Israel eighteen months to restock interceptors and plan this operation, and they are not repeating that mistake.
Ali Larijani’s response: “Yesterday Iran fired missiles. Today we will hit with a force never experienced”.
Trump wanted a four-day war to force negotiations. He’s getting a two-year war footing from a country that just turned its dead supreme leader into a martyr.
