What has the USA achieved after more than a month of bombing? Only killing the Iranian Supreme Leader and stoking the Iranian people into a more patriotic stance. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now a martyr, whose death has sparked and rallied massive support for the country to fight the invaders. Was a regime change in the works? More likely a regime change going to happen in the USA and Israel.
The USA has lost more than its reputation fighting this war. All the highly expensive radar installations, some costing billions, have been destroyed. These are the systems providing the eyes for the Patriot and THAAD interceptors with early warning of Iran's incoming drones and missiles. Their destruction crippled the ability of the interceptors to provide cover, with incoming hypersonic drones and missiles denying ample time for those interceptors to respond within minutes or even seconds available. Which is why Iran has been able to target vital infrastructures with ease after those radars were taken out.
USA did a Pearl Harbor surprise on Iran, and Iran returned the favor and gave the USA a Pearl Harbor surprise by taking out its radar systems in the Middle East at the start of the war, something not in script. In fact, Trump was reported to have complained that 'it was not fair' that Iran is responding so aggressively against the USA's surprise attack.
That radar attack at the start of the war practically destroyed the reputation of the USA's ability to provide protection of the Gulf states, despite all the military bases present in the region. Now the Gulf countries knew that depending on the USA's protection umbrella is just a myth already exposed. This has raised the realization that further attempts to antagonize Iran will not bring peace to the Persian Gulf and the oil trade disruption, which probably prevented the Gulf states from retaliating against Iran, despite all the damage.
Apart from the ability of Iran to gain relatively major advantage over such a short time, the war also dispelled the 20th century WW2 mindset of the USA that aircraft carriers still dictate the direction of the war. Early movement of its two aircraft carriers to the Middle East was supposed to force Iran to cower in fear without a fight and gave its enriched Uranium to the USA on a platter.
But such movements of USA aircraft carriers had in fact given Iran the signal to be ready. That USA has more or less still been harboring an obsolete believe in fighting a war of the 21st century using power projection of aircraft carriers, but which turned out to be a delusional mindset, rendered impotent when faced with hypersonic drones and missiles that has truly dictate the direction of the war. In time to come, aircraft carriers can no longer be counted upon to project military power for launching carpet bombing. In any case, carpet bombing has been proven to garner just initial advantages before boots on the ground. The real dictate of victory or defeat comes after that when strategy and ingenuity really matter more. This has already been proven in Vietnam conclusively. And is being proven in Iran as well.
So, Trump can gloat all he wants about his 'mission accomplished' moment to fool the 'dull of mind' hillbillies. The reality cannot be erased by espousing propaganda alone.
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The only 'mission accomplished' is creating economic problems for the global community. I still believe China buying Iranian oil has something to do with it. Things were running normally regarding oil from the Persian Gulf. USA and Israel started the conflict that created the Straits of Hormuz problem. And it had the cheek and audacity to ask other countries to do their part to clean up its mess.
Did the USA even had the curtesy to consult those countries or even the Gulf states before attacking Iran? Diarrhea-mouth Trump talks about wanting a surprise attack when he was already moving aircraft carriers and logistics to the Middle East, all glaring hints of what is to come. He thought the Iranians are blind and cannot figure out what he was doing. Even a three-year old knows what is on his mind.
Iran knows the agenda of the USA for more than forty years. Iran was and is a thorn in the side of the USA and Israel in the Middle East. Iran would already have the bomb if not for religious constraints that prevented its ambition. This was even admitted by USA leaders who told the truth and removed from office as it runs counter to the war-mongering mindset of the neo-cons in the administration. But they made it sound catastrophic by inventing the lie that Iran just needed two weeks to make the bomb.
Trump wants to take over Iranian oil, to deprive China of energy, cheap energy. He has already taken Venezuela's oil with the objective of keeping cheap energy unavailable to China. He actually intended to sell the Venezuela oil to China, which was unsuccessful.
As China migrates more of its energy requirements to renewables, the energy outlook scenario may change in future. That makes those bottlenecks like Straits of Malacca, Suez Canal and Panama Canal eventually becoming redundant blockades. China has been making every effort to find alternative solutions, and I have little doubt that renewables will feature even more prominently in China's plan. China now has energy production facilities double the USA. Think about that!
Trump just takes whatever he wants. This is good American gangster behaviour.
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