Despite Trump’s fondness of TACO, of huge threat displays followed by climbdowns after getting pretty minor concessions, his movement of so much military hardware into what is expected to become the Iran war theater has made that sort of retreat difficult. The Trump advance against Iran is based on new intel that depicts Iran as more fragile than ever. It must do everything in its power to ensure that the US is not tempted to enter negotiations with the Iranian regime. Past experience offers little basis for optimism regarding what negotiations with the Iranian regime can deliver. Iran having shut down Starlink and choked the external Internet would limit the ability to share intel internally and thus come up with a good picture of Iran operations.