This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.
Spencer Ackerman
New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future
Karoline Leavitt said reopening the Strait of Hormuz was not a "core objective" of winning the Iran War for President Trump.
They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.
Warren Wells, AICP
Kevin M. Kruse
This is definitely a sustainable system and will certainly not collapse pyrotechnically within the decade
Toilet Hinckley Jr
Amazing. But it seems that the US is *assuming* that Iran will emerge from the war vastly stronger. able to either dictate or seriously contest sovereignty over the strait, exact tolls, etc.
$400,000,000 for White House ballroom
$200,000,000,000 for Iran War
$4,000,000,000,000 for billionaire tax cuts
We’re told there’s no money for healthcare funding, college loans, or cancer research.
Meanwhile, we’re facing soaring costs and an anemic economy while the Epstein elite are feasting.
Josh Marshall
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation.
I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment.
This summary is just fantastic.
