The Strait of Hormuz was an international waterway. No longer, Trump gave it to both Iran and Qatar. A $2 million toll will be charged for each ship transit, enforced by the Iranian military. Iran gets to keep their nuclear material. The Iranian regime remains. Iran gets sanctions relief.
Based on that, it's pretty clear that Trump lost the war. Other than bomb damage and lots of dead people, the Iranians are in a better geopolitical position then they were before the attacks began. America's reputation globally has taken more cracks. Leaders around the world have concluded Trump only cares about what you can do for him now and appeasing him is a fool's game. There's no working with Trump and that's finally sinking in.
We have spent the bodies of our troops and gone though a large part of our smart ordnance and lost some very costly aircraft for what, exactly?
And what is the over and under for us surviving for another thirty-three months of this insanity?
After the operations Market and Garden, the King of the Netherlands said we can't afford anymore Monty victories.
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Pyrrhus antedated that by two thousand years; war is always the theater of ghastly mistakes....and only slightly less ghastly victories. "One more victory over the Romans and we are completely done for!"
ReplyDeleteI am so profoundly tired of all the shit that Trump & Co does; you think this is the worst...then that/i> bottom falls out. And it's all so banal. No Eye of Sauron, just the orange idiot with the golden shitstool and his un-merry idiotic flunkies. Oh they can break things, steal things, debase everything they touch, but it's all like watching some drunk driving putting all at risk....make it stop.
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