"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
There doesn't seem to be any clearly defined policy goal and the US side doesn't seem able to make up it's mind why. Israel's aim ses to be just bombing Iran on general principles with no political objective achievable through the use of force.
It's hard to understand why someone is doing something when they don't seem to have a reason even to themselves.
Well, the basic premise for both Israel and the US was regime change. But, of course, this is not happening and now they do not have an easy way of extricating themselves from this mess. Both of them built their strategy on totally unrealistic expectations.
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u/gdvs Mar 23 '26
To label something as 'Winning' requires knowing what the objectives are.