President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have adopted a rather blunt new communications strategy when it comes to U.S. operations against Iran: we are going to tell you exactly what we are going to do, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.

On Thursday morning, Trump said, “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,” and he did the same thing on Wednesday, prior to U.S. strikes.