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.
time.com
Aman Batheja
It's called *Gilead*. Sometimes people tell us who they are and we should believe them.
(I'm sure Melissa knows this but I'm breaking the fourth wall.)
