President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged a personal dimension to his decision to attack Iran, citing the country’s efforts to assassinate him in 2024 as a factor in ordering the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“I got him before he got me,” Trump said in an interview on Sunday night with ABC News. “I got him first.”
Trump’s doctrine is simple: strike first at the guilty, strike hard from afar, skip the nation-building, and end wars on America’s terms.
War is the use of arms to settle differences—tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature.
However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority.
That said, has President Trump introduced a novel way of waging Western war against America’s foreign enemies?
Canadian Forces exchange officers working with the U.S. military were “very likely” involved at some level in planning the weekend strikes on Iran, a former Canada major-general has warned.
If true, this should raise alarm bells for Canadians because it means Ottawa’s insistence that Canada is “not involved” in this operation is not just implausible, it’s misleading.
Canada is not likely trusted to work on such matters given our PM’s fancy for Beijing.
Iran will wage retaliatory war until the last cruise and ballistic missile is expended, the last Shahab, Fattah, Sejjil, Soumar. The last explosive-packed suicide drone. The last Revolutionary Guard soldier still standing. The last slain protester.
And if Iran had a nuclear bomb, there’s little reason to believe that, facing annihilation of the theocratic regime, it wouldn’t have pushed that launch button as well.
For President Donald J. Trump, it doesn’t take another 9/11 attack on the United States to strike at the head of a snake.
His preemptive assault on the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, recognizes the stark reality that the ruling ayatollahs and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have not only sworn to destroy the State of Israel but seek to dominate the entire Middle East, from Yemen to Syria and beyond. They have slaughtered their own citizens, murdered American military personnel, and encouraged and funded acts of terror worldwide.
As smoke lies over Minab, Iran, a girls’ school lies shattered; bodies line the pavement. Before the dust settles, familiar voices declare guilt: America and Israel did it. Case closed.
The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab was hit by a direct strike during ongoing military exchanges. Iranian officials announced a rising death toll, with numbers climbing past 140 and up to 165 lives lost. Health ministry figures quickly spread across global platforms. Tehran blamed joint U.S. and Israeli operations within hours.
Europe knew this may be coming. For weeks, leaders and policy makers watched the US military build-up in the Middle East. They heard the threats of the Trump administration to Tehran: Give up all nuclear aspirations – or else!
But since the US-Israeli attack started on Iran three days ago, this continent has looked at best uncoordinated, if not fractured and decidedly without leverage, caught up in the maelstrom of events.
Each European country is understandably angsting about its citizens in the region – whether and how they may need to evacuate what would be tens of thousands of people in total.
They fear the Muslims they have allowed to settle.
Israeli forces “flattened” a building where Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts had gathered to select the regime’s next supreme leader, according to Israeli officials and regional reports.
An hour ago, the building of the Assembly of Experts in Qom was reportedly destroyed in an airstrike.
Sources say the session to choose Iran’s next leader had been moved there after the main building in Tehran was previously targeted.
If true, this is a final blow to a body that… pic.twitter.com/MjoEQCeE0X— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) March 3, 2026
h/t DickFitzwell
Iran had failed on every front, but its supreme leader kept bluffing. He didn’t fool Trump.
This is the ayatollah’s war. Now as in June, the pileup of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s mistakes served President Trump a strategic opportunity too inviting to pass up. On Saturday, Khamenei paid with his life.
The proximate error came during negotiations, in which Iran all but announced it still wants to pursue nuclear weapons. What else was Mr. Trump supposed to conclude from Iran’s evasions?
No more domestic enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel, the president said. This was hardly unreasonable; 23 nations operate nuclear power programs by importing enriched uranium. U.S. negotiators even offered to provide Iran the fuel free of charge, a senior administration official said Saturday. Iran balked. Despite vast oil reserves, Iran claimed to need nuclear power and its own enrichment program. For this, it would risk everything.
The Islamic radical who shot up an Austin bar had a history of spewing hateful messages online — including calling conservative women “wh–es” and praising the Islamic revolution as “eternal.”
The unhinged social media posts apparently tied to Ndiaga Diagne surfaced after the 53-year-old Senegalese national was killed by cops on Sunday after he embarked on a murderous rampage that left three people dead and wounded more than a dozen at a packed Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden.
Increasingly, countries that were once U.S. allies are aligning themselves with America’s enemies.
he signs were obvious two decades ago, and the insightful Mark Steyn—the conservative Canadian author—addressed them then. In numerous books, written in his sharp, convincing style, he warned that America would soon become isolated in its fight against Islamist jihad. Today, that loneliness appears to be fully realized.
How will the war in Iran end? The scenarios explained
President Trump has threatened to send troops into Iran, raising the prospect of a full-blown regime change operation such as that which the US carried out in Iraq, and which he had previously promised to avoid.
Trump has sent conflicting messages since the start of the joint US-Israeli operation against Iran on Saturday morning, at times suggesting it could last just a few days and at others saying he is prepared to continue bombing for four or five weeks or even longer. His interview with the New York Post on Monday was the first time he had raised the possibility of “boots on the ground”.
BREAKING – Democrats are now marching through the streets of NYC carrying signs mourning Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, while chanting “globalize the intifada” and encouraging Muslims to rise up against the West.
Deport them with the Muslims.pic.twitter.com/LQOAJolr9V
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 3, 2026
Use this to drop any vids or stories that interest you on this momentous attack in the comments.
On the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, we all awoke to an alarming development.
Addressing the world, the president of the United States revealed that joint military forces of the United States and Israel had begun a coordinated strike against the 47-year-old Islamic regime in Iran. In measured tones, President Trump explained that the operation had been launched in response to a clear and present danger posed by Iran’s continued nuclear ambitions and the regime’s longstanding support for terrorism against the West.
Mark Carney wasted no time in backing U.S. military action to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It was a quick decision to pick a side but also to pick from a menu.
It is hard to claim that preventing Iran from getting the bomb is the cause for this war.
It’s particularly hard because U.S. President Donald Trump provided a whole menu of justifications in the eight-minute video he released Saturday – from Iran’s nuclear-weapons program to its decades of sponsorship of terror – but really made his war about regime change in Iran.
Canada has no skin in the game so it’s easy to feign support. But Carney had better hope a Canadian sleeper cell doesn’t seek vengeance stateside.
No pleasure cruise!
Two days ago, the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman, today they have ZERO. The Iranian regime has harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of Oman for decades. Those days are over. Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global… pic.twitter.com/nzdkMVMqZC
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 2, 2026
Wary U.S. allies try to avoid getting drawn into criticizing Washington or attacking Tehran
As American and Israeli war planes finished their first attacks against Iran over the weekend, carefully worded statements from Western allies started to roll out.
Iran “must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon,” said a spokesperson for the British government. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he shared the U.S.’s interest in ending “this regime’s terror.” French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on diplomacy.
All said they weren’t involved in military action, but carefully skirted judgment of the legality of U.S. actions. No loud applause, no condemnation. Just “whispered warnings” about what it could spark, said French newspaper Le Monde.
I bet CBC hates this…
Newly released footage shows a local approaching a U.S. fighter jet pilot after she was forced to eject from a crashed jet in Kuwait pic.twitter.com/Kzbv1NTPhd
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) March 2, 2026
h/t DM and Hermes
