ACOUP 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/
@cstross To quote the Oracle at Delphi, "if you invade, you will destroy a great empire".
About 55 BCE, IIRC. But it was in Latin, so Trump wouldn't understand it, at any level.
