The first ship hit in days, and the timing carries all the weight.
Larry Johnson's read was blunt: retaliate during this mourning period and Iran skips the calibrated tit-for-tat entirely. Full force first, escalation math later.
The crowds were already chanting for revenge.
And those crowds may be the real story.
Projections run to 30 or 40 MILLION across Iran and Iraq, on track for the largest funeral gathering in recorded history.
Larry reached for Pearl Harbor: a strike that fuses a divided nation overnight, one he believes reshapes Iranian culture for fifty years.
I posted that watching those processions made me feel lied to about Iran. It struck a nerve.
Add the Axios leak of a senior official saying Bibi's war promises never came to pass, and Tehran's reply to Trump's bridges-and-power-plants warning, a several-thousand-year-old civilization answering a 250-year-old one, and the week feels combustible.
On Ukraine, Larry was colder still: this gets decided on the battlefield, and the terms won't be Trump's.
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