Charlie StrossACOUP is grimly pessimistic about the Iran war: "it is not possible for two sides to both win a war. But it is absolutely possible for both sides to lose; mutual ruin is an option." https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/
MidgePhoto@cstross thing is, at this point, for all three participants to suffer losses of force and wealth is going to cause quite limited sadness in most of the rest of the world.
I mean, it is clearly _bad_ and we are all suffering and will suffer more as collateral damage, but to whom better could it happen?
Well, Russia, obvs.