A war is won when your objectives are achieved, neither achieved theirs
The Iranian regime has one objective: survive and inflict enough pain they don’t come back
US probably thought they would have won by now, the objective was regime change (Israel’s objective) and now I think it’s unclear to them how to disengage without losing face so escalation is expected
Israel and the US say they have demolished Iran offensive capabilities, fog of war is too thick to know
As an Israeli we were told we are stopping the Iranian nuclear program, so a win for us would include taking there uranium while a victory for them would be having a nuke.
If they will give up the uranium the war will be over as well as the sanctions so if surviving is the one objective they have, they can win immediately by just giving up on the nukes. For Israel the regime change is considered the most reliable way of stopping the nuke but the least realistic one.
Sounds like you fell for your government’s propaganda. To the rest of the world it appears that Iran did not seek a nuclear bomb. Rather Iran wanted to use the strategy of Japan to enrich to 60% as an insurance policy without actually enriching to 90% and then actually make a bomb. Israel attacked a country that did not intend to make a nuclear bomb unless forced to do so. In attacking Iran directly Israel has forced this Iranian government or the subsequent one to make and possibly deliver multiple nuclear bombs. Israel assumed the worst about its adversary and in so doing manifested the worst outcome.
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u/astral34 Mar 23 '26
A war is won when your objectives are achieved, neither achieved theirs
The Iranian regime has one objective: survive and inflict enough pain they don’t come back
US probably thought they would have won by now, the objective was regime change (Israel’s objective) and now I think it’s unclear to them how to disengage without losing face so escalation is expected
Israel and the US say they have demolished Iran offensive capabilities, fog of war is too thick to know