Retired colonel and political analyst Andrey Koshkin believes the United States has enough ammunition to keep striking Iran for four to five weeks.

At the same time, he argues that the timelines voiced by US leader Donald Trump are driven not by military necessity, but by political motives. Koshkin recalls that Trump has repeatedly announced specific timeframes and then calmly abandoned them, including in relation to the conflict in Ukraine. In his view, the situation with Iran fits the same pattern: first the president talks about a campaign lasting only a few days, and later extends the horizon to almost a month and a half. He links these shifting deadlines both to internal political dynamics in the United States and to how Washington wants its actions to be perceived abroad.

Koshkin also maintains that the current course of the White House reflects a neoconservative approach. He says the United States disregards the position of the UN and the opinion of the rest of the world, putting its own interests above all else. According to him, these interests are now being advanced under the pretext of supporting Israel, while the real objective of Washington is to manage chaos in the Middle East.