Oil revenues double. US munitions deplete. Russia’s great-power image suffers. Innovation lags. Putin still trusts Trump on Ukraine.
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Killing leaders fails without politics. Never drink your neighbor’s whole milkshake. The weak have more power than you think.
Moscow avoids direct confrontation but gains from energy prices, signals US overstretch, and strengthens its hand in Ukraine negotiations.
No coalition stands with Washington. Strategic drift, domestic economic pressures, and unreliable analogies reveal a war of choice without coherent vision.
“Iran, with 35 years of preparation and a strategy calibrated to outlast rather than outgun, may be winning the war.”
“Trump will at some point declare that his Iran mission is accomplished, but it likely won’t be because the United States has achieved its political goals.”
“If your head and your heart is not in it when you go to war, it’s going to be a lot more difficult to accomplish your objectives.”
“An oil tanker does not have to sink for a weakened Iran to gain leverage. It only has to turn around.”
“Can Iran raise the cost without losing its neighborhood? And can it pressure Washington through the Gulf without turning itself into the main enemy in the eyes of the region?”
Incoherent Iran war justifications reveal administration’s delight in violence while abandoning American traditions of moral purpose and strategic restraint.