Lori Siegel

Usually it accompanies a massive invasion that doesn't work out.

It has to lead to another final blow.

And

Just this time, it will break the enemy.

The Pentagon is developing military options for the final blow.

A dramatic military escalation will grow more likely if no progress is made.

They think a crushing show of force to conclude the fighting would create more leverage in peace talks or simply give Trump

something to point to and declare victory.

Iran, of course, has a say in how the war ends.

Many of the scenarios would risk prolonging and intensifying the conflict.

It would include potentially invading or blockading Karg Island, invading Larak, an island that helps Iran solidify its control of the Straits of Hormuz, seizing the strategic island of Abu Musa and two smaller islands which lie near the western entrance to the strait and are controlled by Iran but also claimed by the UAE, and blocking or seizing ships that are exporting Iranian oil

on the eastern side of the Hormuz Strait.

The military has also prepared plans for ground operations deep inside the interior of Iran to secure the highly enriched uranium buried within nuclear facilities.

Instead of conducting such a complicated and risky operation, they could also...

carry out large-scale airstrikes on those facilities to try to prevent Iran from ever accessing that material.

Now, you put this together with all of the troops that are currently on their way to the region, and you could be reasonably confident that something like this could happen absent a huge diplomatic breakthrough in the next four hours.

Starting tomorrow is when the five-day deadline slash extension expires.

Slash the market is closed.

Slash market is closed, right, exactly, tomorrow at 4.30 p.m.,

Everybody opened their eyes.