If the war truly ends with Iran in possession of the strait of Hormuz--as is currently the case--and if negotiations proceed according to Iran's 10-points, which include full sanctions relief and Iran charging tolls for use of the strait, then the outcome of the war will be clear.
And it won't be a US victory.
Earthset.
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trump thought after decapitation strikes & shock and awe display of us military, iranians would capitulate and offer new terms.
wildly overconfident because:
1) of successful venezuela experience
2) more limited strikes on iran when iranians talked big, didn’t respond
3) most problematically, people competing to flatter the chief give a systematically more positive bias to their briefs w potus
it is getting increasingly tiresome to read and hear calls to "finish the job" in Iran absent any serious discussion of what the job is and how it is to be accomplished with military force.
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Boola boola!
i don’t see *any* circumstances where the us / nato sends troops to defend ukraine.
not if chemical weapons are used.
not if a tactical nuclear weapon is deployed.
but putin will never win this war.
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