The alternative was to launch a half-baked WW3 with no real changes and then eventually decide to rebrand the whole thing to gain some popularity and just drop the 3.

https://lemmy.world/post/44387419

AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
We’ve always been at war with Iran.
They’ve been an imminent threat for decades now!