The final point I want to make is that the U.S. loses nothing from performing a large-scale military exercise, scaring a shit out of everyone, pushing Iran to the limit and seeing if they can get concessions, like they have tried with Russia, and utterly failing because the other side recognizes it as an existential battle at this point. They do lose an immense amount by engaging here. It will foreclose on the possibility of aggression against China, although maybe they already believe that’s a lost cause. That will be a political struggle within Washington. The nuclear options seems unrealistic in light of that.

But what about the EMP options? Can someone call in another military obsessive? We are nothing alone.