03/12/26 Afternoon CommStock Report – Still on President Trump’s Excursion

Wars occur in stages and the first round of this war with Iran is morphing into a second. The first phase was to blow the top echelon of the Iranian regime and its military assets to hell. The mission included destroying Iranian nuclear weapon development and ballistic missile-making capability. With air dominance, never in doubt, our military has accomplished all of that. No one can match our military in this kind of fight. They have either destroyed or degraded all facets of Iran’s military ability to strike back. The (miss)assumption was that “this would do it” preventing or disrupting the formation of a new regime to replace the one killed and bringing about a capitulation of Iran. War Over? Not so fast. Everything that President Trump says about our military is right but if Iran takes the hits and doesn’t quit where does that leave him? It appears that we have entered round 2 of the war.   Our military delivered on the mission, but the Iranian Regime has not succumbed or cooperated. All we did was eliminate their old order and bring up a fresh new group of Islamic radicals just as committed to harming us as the previous…