If this is true, Donald Trump has managed the unusual feat of going to war with another country and having them come out of it stronger than they went in

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-ee950ad4?st=FarDpz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/so-you-lost-a-war-to-iran/

So You Lost A War To Iran

And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK

FOREVER WARS

@jalefkowit This line is tragic in the original Greek sense:

"I'm not measuring the war in terms of human lives only because that is not a compelling metric to the United States, while economic pain is."