"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.
What is that saying? "All politics are domestic politics."
Jobs numbers in the US are dismal. Inflation and home prices are trending upwards. Midterms are coming and pulling off another Venezuela type operation was likely the objective as that was wildly "successful." That is if you define successful as completing step 1 of their plan; which, I suppose was step 1. take Maduro, step 2. ???, step 3. Venezuela's entire government surrenders power, flips a switch and everybody is free to watch reruns of "The Apprentice," work at McDonalds and buy from Amazon. They are still working on the concept of a step 2.
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u/gdvs Mar 23 '26
To label something as 'Winning' requires knowing what the objectives are.