There’s a better way to destroy Fordow and Trump’s bunker buster threat may be a ruse to enable it

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1. Submission statement:
   American bunker buster bombs may not be enough to penetrate the Fordow facility. Some in the administration suggest that only a tactical nuke could breach it, which is obviously not on the cards. But all of the speculation may just be a smokescreen to provide a cover for a ground operation by IDF to take the facility out like it did missile factories in Syria last year.

2. I don’t know why, but Trumps statements of “making up his mind” and “I might do it and I might not” have been the most embarrassing things he’s said imo.

   Why not just televise a coin flip and base the decision on that at this point?

3. It’s pretty difficult to overestimate the capability of special operations units, but this would be a significantly more challenging operation than the one in Syria. Not impossible, but a much tougher dragon to slay.

   For starters, the entire world is aware that Fordow is a primary target with attack imminent. It is on high alert and prepared. There is no surprise to be had here, and you can bet the security force on site/within quick reaction range is much more significant than that at the Syrian missile facility.

   Special operations units have achieved some crazy things, but this would likely be one of the most challenging raid in spec ops history, on par with the raid on Cabanatuan.

4. So boots on the ground in the heart of Iran, with whom Israel not only shares no border but is in fact separated by at least 2 countries. A 3,000km round trip to occupy and maintain an air bridgehead, hold it, fight your way into Iranian Cheyenne Mountain and “dismantle it by hand”

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