Four years and 24 days. Nineteen days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first numbers — 1,485 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number — just 19 days — is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 began bombing strategic targets in Iran.
The two attacks have this in common: their initial responses were far different from what many experts, in the United States and beyond, expected and predicted.
U.S. drops 5,000-pound bunker busters on underground Iranian missile sites along the Hormuz coastline
CENTCOM confirms GBU-72 Advanced Penetrator bombs were used to destroy hardened Iranian anti-ship cruise missile sites threatening commercial shipping in the Strait.
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— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) March 18, 2026
