History did not begin on Inauguration Day. Iran has developed a non-civilian uranium enrichment program for decades while Benjamin Netanyahu kept telling the Americans to do something about it. From its first test in 2007, the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) was designed to fly in a B-2 Spirit and crack open very deep bunkers exactly like Fordow. When the Air Force added the MOP to their congressional funding request in 2011, ABC News asked: “Is the US Preparing to Bomb Iran?” Everyone already knew the answer was yes. Obviously yes. Operation Midnight Hammer should not have surprised anyone.
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