I never say shit like this because it always sounds like cope to me, but if it doesn't end soon the Iran thing might be the pivotal disaster of American history.
Iraq and Afghanistan started with genuinely quick successful operations, where they failed was at combating the insurgencies afterwards. Bush was at sky-high popularity after 9/11. This is already worse than that.
Vietnam was also a disaster but had few consequences for Americans at home. This is already worse than that.
>most Western countries are being compelled to support a deeply unpopular war in the midst of a widespread legitimacy crisis for traditional political ideologies>Iran is desperate and clearly trying to make this as costly as possible for everyone involved>Gulf States have lost their illusion of being the safe "West-like" havens of the Middle East>a new refugee crisis is likely if this goes on>gasoline prices in a lot of places have already surged (it's been 3-4 days), and on top of everything, this might give Russia an additional advantage in negotiations regarding the war in Ukraine>America rapidly burning through a lot of expensive equipment and structure, to the point of considering withdrawing equipment from East Asia>there is clearly a partial media blackout which indicates things are going much worse than planned>Trump is being more retarded than usual, his "Secretary of War" unironically thinks he'll win by being anti-woke, and the supposedly "sane" people involved are mostly ideological fanatics ready to feed soldiers into a meatgrinder for Israel>no sign of what a "victory" would even look like, they're acting like they expected a "You Won!" splash to show up after killing the Supreme LeaderThe long and short of it seems to be that America kicked a hornet's nest, fucked over most of its allies for no good reason, is wasting a lot of resources and soft power, and failed to exert its will, all while increasing dissatisfaction with the current political state of the world.
Yeah, they can probably beat Iran even in a (long, brutal and costly) ground invasion, they can probably accomplish whatever their objectives are (like neutralizing Iran as a major
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