The Iranians do not have to do anything more to tell the world that they are in fact winning the war. Most analysts are saying that Iran does not have to defeat the USA, but by showing its ability to survive USA brutal assault is enough to tell the world it has in fact won the war.
Now, whether there is going to be a ceasefire or a stalemate, Iran is going to be seen standing tall looking at what it has done and achieved. Why do I say so?
Throughout the war, Iran has shown that it is capable of taking out USA military bases, radar systems, interceptor batteries and render the USA naval power totally unable to exert its strength. The USA, despite the boasting by Trump of destroying Iran's air force, navy and missile sites, is still facing a fear of Iranian hypersonic drones and missiles hidden deep underground.
What has the USA achieved in all of this war? The reputation of the USA projection of power using its aircraft carriers has been given a rude awakening. Iran's use of Chinese anti-aircraft carrier hypersonic missiles has punctured the much-hype up invincibility of the USA naval power projection since WW2 and is a lesson that will be well learnt by the Chinese in any future confrontation with the USA. China does not have to test-drive its anti-aircraft carrier missiles as Iran is doing it for free. Iran is also giving Chinese air=defense a test of its capability that China has little chance of testing them. Never mind that the USA and the West called them junks. I do not think those anti-aircraft carrier missiles are junks, otherwise the USA would not have to move them out of range from the Iranian coastline.
There is still little being talked about the use of spoofing by the Iranians against satellite imaging and fighter jet targeting by the USA military, using Russian and Chinese technology. When fighter jets shoot at each other and bombs miss their targets by wide margins, who knows what is happening. It is well known that the GPS system is hackable and not spoofing proof in the wars fought so far.
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The anti-China bots are saying that Chinese aircraft carriers are ineffective to project power beyond the South China Sea and are therefore junks. Why would China want to project power beyond the South China Sea, knowing that the days of aircraft carriers are basically now surviving on hype and posturing as a result of the war against Iran.
China was never in the game of competing with the USA in the number of aircraft carriers or projection of power. China, over the last few decades, has studied the vulnerabilities of air-craft carriers and formulated counter measures against USA power projection using aircraft carriers and is not pouring resources into it. Of course, as a major power, China only needs a few aircrafts carriers for defensive purposes, same as even smaller countries.
China has found its way to deal with aircraft carrier's power projection threat by using its hypersonic drones and missiles. Those drones and missiles cost just a tiny fraction of the cost of building an air-craft carrier, highly effective and the math show the reason why China did not embark on fighting fire with fire. And Iran has proven the effective usage of such anti-aircraft carrier drones and missile capabilities.
Moreover, maintaining an aircraft carrier fleet needs all the support ships moving all around the world needs huge logistical support - fuel, food, crewing and port calls, which China does not have such support anyway. And countries now giving support to the USA in terms of logistic like refueling are now wary of retaliations by enemies of the USA. The USA is facing such a problem in the Middle East now, having been denied such support in its war against Iran.
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