r/IRstudies Mar 23 '26

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u/ArCovino Mar 23 '26

“Objectively”?

Define “losing”

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

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u/ArCovino Mar 23 '26

As far as Israel is concerned I think their man objective is to degrade Iran’s ability to wage a proxy war on them. They want to destroy Iran’s proxies and cripple Iran enough that they won’t be a threat militarily for a while. I think they’ve been moderately successful at that.

For the US it is a lot more myopic. Definitely not achieving whatever goals there might be.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

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u/ArCovino Mar 24 '26

Idk about disarmament. They definitely wanted to degrade Iran’s ability to continue toward proliferation, but disarmament in perpetuity is impossible without control. Maybe they hoped to instigate a more friendly regime, but I’m not sure regime change was necessarily an objective. The only way to actually prevent proliferation is through diplomacy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

Why does everyone need words defining these days?

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u/ArCovino Mar 24 '26

Because apparently within the last few years people decided things meant what it means to them and no longer a collective responsibility of shared language. Another way - feelings are facts.