A huge strategic defeat for the US empire is in the making. In which they are cleared out of West Asia entirely, their former cash cows in the Gulf turning to Russia and China to mediate their future relations with an angry and victorious Iran. In which the Gulf countries pay Iran in reparations rather than Trump for the costs of his lost war. In which those Gulf states which remain are (at least) “finlandised” viz the new emerging world order. In which Iran enjoys a splendour in the esteem of the Global South and Eurasia not enjoyed for centuries.
@USAmbMNE This is not Montenegro; this is Sicily on the other side of the Adriatic – a Sicily that you and your predecessors have created and supported for decades, fostering a mafia within the state of Tito’s loyalists (Titograđani), a state now called the Republic of Titograd.