Victory Achieved, Now Comes the Sweep

If you turn on the television or any Western podcast, you might find yourself wondering: are they even watching the same events unfolding in Iran? Since Friday the 13th, time feels accelerated. So much has happened in so little time. Yet the facts on the ground are undeniable. Within five days, Israel has single-handedly redrawn the strategic map of the Middle East. Natanz, Arak and Isfahan lie in rubble. Top Iranian nuclear scientists are gone. The military leadership has been decapitated, and now their replacements are being removed. Major drone production & storage facilities vaporized. Israeli UAVs fly unchallenged over Tehran, which now smolders under daylight strikes. And yet, Western politicians, corporate media pundits, and new streaming influencers appear oblivious—still fixated on whether the US will “get involved.”

The answer is simple: Israel already has succeeded to meet the goals of Operation Rising Lion. Once again, it has shocked the world, and the world isn’t ready to admit it. Too many powerful institutions, elites, and ideologies have been invested for too long in the belief that Israel couldn’t do what it just did. Now, there’s simply too much egg on too many faces. In today’s information-saturated age, this kind of blindness isn’t accidental. It’s ideological. The refusal to accept reality is a defense mechanism, not a lack of access.

And the facts are not vague. They are corroborated by a chorus of OSINT, satellite imagery, official IDF briefings, leaked Iranian communications, and even internal Iranian sources. What’s more, this isn’t Israel’s first time proving the analysts wrong: from the Osirak strike in 1981 to Syria’s Deir ez-Zor reactor in 2007, Israel has repeatedly neutralized existential threats before the world could even draft a resolution.

Over the past six days, the IDF’s audacious campaign has forced the powerful into an uncomfortable reckoning. They got it wrong, and they know it. Now, some are already preparing the next move—to steal Israel’s victory in the name of “stability,” “restraint,” or “diplomatic resolution.”

Take the Obama camp, who pushed the JCPOA by warning of a Hobson’s choice: diplomacy or World War III. Now? Radio silence. Better that than the America-Only isolationists wing of MAGA, still ranting that Israel and “their AIPAC cronies” are trying to entrap Trump in another Middle East war. Or the Mearsheimer types, who spent decades assuring us Israel was too small, too constrained, too isolated to confront Iran. Now, these experts pivot. They skip the facts, downplay the operational success, and rush to wring their hands about “unintended consequences.” This is not analysis. It’s a sleight of hand. An escape hatch. They lost the argument, so now they change the subject. They don’t want to explain why they were wrong. They want to contain the implications. They want to deny the scale of Israel’s achievement.

The “operational” victories—destroyed nuclear sites, neutralized leadership, air superiority—are not just tactical flourishes. They are strategic success. The entire objective of this campaign was to erase the Iranian nuclear threat. Everything that has unfolded since has confirmed Israel’s capacity to do just that. The outcome is not speculative; it is playing out in front of our eyes. That some refuse to update their priors tells you more about them than the war.

Let’s be clear: Israel is not asking for American planes. Yes, Fordow remains. But as Netanyahu said in a Sunday interview, “Israel will take care of it.” That’s not bluster. That’s reality. Israel has seized control of the skies. Iran is in retreat. The campaign is no longer about survival; it’s a mopping-up operation. And as each hour passes, the window to complete that mission widens, not narrows.

What we are witnessing is history repeating itself. Fifty-eight years after the Six-Day War, Israel has again stunned the world. And once again, the world is struggling to catch up. Many had skin in this game. Think tanks. Political factions. Media brands. Their egos are bruised. But while others equivocated, Israel acted. And despite its size, despite 20 months of sustained conflict, Israel stood alone and won.

Yet already we are hearing the murmurs: that this war must be “brought to an end” before it becomes a “global problem.” Translation: Israel must not be allowed to win too clearly, too loudly, or too decisively. There are always those—some well-meaning, others not—who would rather sanitize war than admit what region we’re in. But this is not Brussels or Geneva. This is the Middle East. It is likely that US will join to help mop-up, but do not confuse whom did the “dirty work,” as the German Chancellor stated recently.

Fortune favors the bold. And the glory is Israel’s.

The rest of the world will catch up in time. As images of Iranian destruction go viral, as the regime quietly sues for peace, as Trump moves toward endorsing the outcome, the truth becomes undeniable.

And as the Supreme Leader sits in his bunker, his generals gone, his nuclear ambitions shattered, his capital under siege, his people beginning to rise up, the writing is on the wall. Your Islamic revolution is no longer on the march. You made one unforgivable mistake.

You picked a fight with the Jews.

And history always had an answer for that.