Iran's Most Powerful Weapon
Townhall,
by
Erick Erickson
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
3/20/2026 12:02:40 PM
Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out Iran's capacity to make war. We have killed their leadership, the replacement leaders, and militia members on the ground. We have destroyed their missile launchers and the factories in which they made the missiles. But Iran still has one of the most powerful weapons in the world on its side, and it is ruthlessly deploying it – the American press corps.
"Families mourn as dead are laid to rest in Tehran," blared the front page, above the fold headline in the Athens Banner-Herald
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/20/2026 12:32:40 PM (No. 2082762)
Agree, the US press and elected Democrats are rooting for the United States to fail in this effort.
You can see it in their comments and how they phrase the questions - negatively.
I would doubt even a drop of oil that was recently purchased at these higher price points has even made it to a refinery to be turned into gasoline or any other fuel source.
Yet, the fuel prices were increased as if it was immediate and watch how slow they reduce those prices when the Iran issue is resolved in the next few weeks (which is the most likely outcome).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fhancock 3/20/2026 12:45:03 PM (No. 2082769)
Look at the Democrats...they habitually root against the United States: 1863 Copperhead Democrats; Rooting for Castro, Che, Mao, Ho during the Cold War; Jane Fonda, John Kerry, George McGovern undermining the Vietnam War, Teddy Kennedy giving secrets to the Soviets in 1984; Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White during FDR and Truman Administration, cuddling Ortega, Chavez, and Maduro. 1991 trying to thwart Desert Storm from going through in the Senate, siding with Islamists continuously...AOC, Mamdani, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib...flooding the USA with 11 million illegals, there is good reason to call Democrats the PARTY OF TREASON...because they ARE.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chagrined 3/20/2026 12:45:59 PM (No. 2082770)
The despicable U.S. Enemedia. And don't forget their communist friends, aka Demcrats!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/20/2026 12:55:43 PM (No. 2082777)
The second I read the headline, the MEDIA popped up in my head.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
varkdriver 3/20/2026 12:59:13 PM (No. 2082780)
#2:
Excellent historical rundown. I would include Walter Duranty's Pulitzer-award-winning NYT coverup of the Ukrainian famine in the 1930s; apparently Walter had fallen in love with Uncle Joe Stalin.
Also, "Ho" and "Jane Fonda" should go together (ha!). And one more: I think the press was "coddling" Ortega, Chavez and Maduro, not 'cuddling' with them. But then again, as I think about it, they would!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/20/2026 1:02:14 PM (No. 2082784)
As soon as I read the headline, I thought "American Lamestream Media".
#1 said it very well. As soon as 'anything' happens and the 'futures' price of oil - the contract price for petroleum to be delivered what- THREE MONTHs from the sale date- the retail fuel prices here in the USA jump higher, then when the situation settles down, the retailers grudgingly and slowly lower the prices, a penny or two at a time, and milk as much CASH from American customers as the can.
#2, don't forget the 'Rat president who abandoned the Shah of Iran back in 1979-1980 and got this whole mess started..... the Worst President Ever (up to that time)..... ol' Jimmah.
#3. the Lamestreams are the 'Rat Pep Squad, just as the KKK was the 'Rat terrorist arm, back in the day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 3/20/2026 1:08:07 PM (No. 2082785)
I have a favorite shirt..."The Worst Virus In The World Is The Press'...held over from COVID days...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
davew 3/20/2026 1:38:16 PM (No. 2082798)
It will be decades before the American press realizes they are on the wrong side of history and missed one of the most brilliant strategic offensives in world history, orchestrated by President Trump. He has planned this for 40 years and is now executing it with the aid of the US Military and AI advancements.
It began with the Venezuelan raid on Maduro. Maduro was the prize, but the raid's value was to demonstrate that the Chinese anti-stealth radar and missile systems couldn't detect our advanced stealth weapons systems. We had either hacked their test data or, more likely, been provided with it by CIA moles in the PLA, and developed countermeasures to defeat it, but you need to test this in the real world. It worked well on a limited scale.
The next test was Operation Midnight Hammer against the more formidable Chinese anti-stealth systems in Iran. Again, we defeated their systems and destroyed them undetected. This gave us the confidence to attack Iran with very low risk of loss in Operation Epic Fury to eliminate them as a nuclear threat with ICBMs. We quickly decapitated their leadership with precision weapons that avoided all the Chinese technology they had been given.
What the press hasn't reported is that Xi Jinping has also internally decapitated much of the Chinese military-industrial complex, including CCP scientists and engineers who developed the J20 stealth fighter and anti-stealth radar technology intended to defeat our F-35s. They tested their radar using the J20, and it worked great. What Xi now realizes is that all they proved was that either the J20 wasn't really stealthy, or the anti-stealth radar didn't work due to our jamming countermeasures. The most likely explanation was that we hacked their systems and defeated their radar. In any case, Xi knows that any plans to invade Taiwan without having a viable air defense system or any PLA generals in command would be suicide.
So in just the first half of President Trump's second term, he has:
1. Removed a narco-terrorist funded by sanctioned oil shipments and gained control of their oil distribution.
2. Removed the threat of nuclear-enforced slavery to an Islamic power.
3. Checkmated Xi Jinping's ambitions to invade Taiwan.
4. Placed the US in a position to control the flow of oil from the Middle East in a united coalition with oil-producing neighbors and regulate the global price determined by our reserve dollar currency status.
This is not the work of a great national leader. This is the work of a modern Alexander the Great. Someday, legendary tales will be written about this time. For now, all we get is brainless heckling.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/20/2026 1:40:50 PM (No. 2082799)
Yes, indeed, #8.
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