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Monday, November 9. 2026
Eight months of Epic Fury and still no internal uprising…..
Eight months into Operation Epic Fury, the White House continues to promise a swift conclusion to the conflict. We have seen this playbook before: Washington degrades Iranian military capabilities through intense airstrikes, tightens economic sanctions, and then waits for a battered regime to petition for peace. Yet Tehran’s theocracy is absorbing these material losses while keeping an iron grip on power. U.S. strategists are ignoring a glaring parallel: our own failure in Afghanistan.
Long before their 2021 return to power, the Taliban cultivated a functional shadow government, guerrilla cells, and an underground intelligence apparatus. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence provided the critical sanctuary and logistics to sustain them, supplemented by arms and intelligence support from Russia and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. While the United States propped up the Afghan government with a substantial force presence, Washington fatally underestimated both the Taliban’s deep local insurgent roots and the durability of their ideology. When U.S. diplomats negotiated from a perceived position of strength, they secured an agreement that evaporated the moment American troops withdrew. Because Washington left no sustained ground counterweight, the insurgent structures American forces failed to dismantle simply took over.
Iran presents a related, yet distinct, challenge. Unlike the Taliban, who had to build their insurgency from the outside in, the Iranian regime already possesses the ultimate tools of internal control. The IRGC and its Basij paramilitary, alongside the national police (NAJA), operate a dense, neighborhood-level surveillance and suppression machine. Operating from tens of thousands of bases embedded in mosques and schools, the Basij weaponizes ideological indoctrination, patronage, and the constant threat of localized violence to paralyze dissent.
Furthermore, Beijing and Moscow are actively reinforcing Tehran’s resilience. China buys the vast majority of Iran’s smuggled oil—providing a vital financial lifeline—while supplying dual-use technology. Russia, drawing on lessons from Ukraine, shares targeting intelligence and helps replenish Iran’s drone fleet. Both powers carefully calibrate this support to bleed U.S. resources without triggering a direct war. They are perfectly content to watch America bog down in another endless Middle Eastern commitment.
“This was a major action that weighed on Americans minds, and I think it was a big reason that Republicans lost big in the midterm elections”, offered Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan based in Harrison, Arkansas. “Not all Republicans support the war, but they all paid the price because of the hatred of President Trump by the leftist radicals. There are people out there that believe we need to cut ties with Israel, and I am one of them. Have you noticed that you don’t hear much of the war with Israel and Iran anymore? Or America and Israel being allied against Iran? This is because most times Israel engages in any war in the Middle East, they call upon America to be their saviour. They start a war they know they can’t win, then look for brave men and women from America to go to the Middle East and fight for them. Alot of people are becoming aware of this fact, and it’s not antisemitic to say this fact. Well, maybe it is, but being against our brave men and women going to the Middle East and getting killed for Israel’s battles, then go through a long war we didn’t start, if that’s being antisemitic, then so be it, I’m not the only one that feels this way, and I think it played a big part in our midterm slaughter. Christians need to rethink their support of the fake Jews”.