So let’s look at the way the US lost the most recent round of its war with Iran:
- Regime change failed
- Nuclear prevention failed
- Defense of Arab bases failed
- Defense of Israel failed
- Destruction of military capabilities failed
- Strait of Hormuz blocked
About the only thing the US did successfully was to not lose any warships. Which, one notes, could have much more easily been accomplished by not sending them to the Persian Gulf in the first place. And not only did the USA fail in its objectives, but it ended the conflict worse off than when it began.
That is, by every historical measure, a defeat. It’s not an existential one, nor is it necessarily the last word on the international conflict. But the history books will record this as being a defeat of the USA by Iran.
Absent an effective political and military strategy that restores stable and enduring peace between nations in the region, this war risks becoming yet another U.S. exercise in violence untethered from purpose; a war ending in failure, useless destruction, and economic depression that will require years to overcome.
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