wanderingmagusMay 10
Nonilex

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Brutally honest analysis of Trump’s failure in #Iran & its impact on the #US & #GlobalOrder from Robert Kagan

Checkmate in Iran

It’s hard to think of a time when the #UnitedStates suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored.

#Trump #failure #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #ForeverWars #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #NewWorldOrder
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQsNAoumvTwglsKzbozefow

Checkmate in Iran

Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.

The Atlantic
May 10 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadNonilexMay 10

The…losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, & throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of WWII were eventually reversed. The defeats in Vietnam & Afghanistan were costly but didn’t do lasting damage to the #UnitedStates’ overall position in the world….The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable & unthreatening to its neighbors & kept the #US dominant in the region.

#Trump #IranWar #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder

Show threadNonilexMay 10
Defeat in the present confrontation w/ #Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate #US triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The #StraitOfHormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region &…in the world. The roles of #China & #Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the US, substantially diminished.
Show threadNonilexMay 10

Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the #war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed a #US that is unreliable & incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends & foes adjust to the #UnitedStates’ failure.

#Trump #failure #TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #NewWorldOrder

Show threadFurballsNHairballsMay 10
@Nonilex
Let's hope Mexico takes back Texas 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Show threadAllan GirvanMay 10

@Nonilex

The world has also learned that the mighty US military is completely incapable of building a warship with functioning toilets.

Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.May 10
@Nonilex Taiwan is effed if China feels like reclaiming it now.
Show threadChris DudleyMay 10
@msbellows @Nonilex And it seems unlikely that we would effectively evacuate our nationals considering how poorly we performed in the mideast.
Show threadChrisMay 10
@Nonilex really funny to think that a combination of US military incompetence and Big Oil interests might be the thing that finally stops Bibi
Show threadQuasitMay 11

@ASprinkleofSage @Nonilex

Not to mention destroys the fossil fuel industry. 🤞

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌May 10

@Nonilex Ahead of Nazi Germany's "operation Barbarossa" to invade the Soviet Union, after previously having signed the infamous & deceptive "Hitler-Stalin pact" the paranoid Soviet dictator ordered big parts of the USSR's military leadership to be executed, out of fears of looming rebellion & lacking loyalty.

Trump & his Hickseth didn't choose having possibly critical U.S. military leadership be fired at.

They just chose to fire many of the military's most capable minds, because the Trump regime prefers (criminal) "ideological" over constitutional loyalty!

And that subversive sabotage is threatening the military's capability & readiness, creating weaknesses in service of Trump's buddy & handler in Moscow.

With Trump, your real commander-in-chief's sitting in the Kremlin's presidential seat.

Show threadPaul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0May 10

@Nonilex
And yet, and yet, if the brilliant business minds that finance favorable policy decisions had embraced renewable energy and a shift off of fossil carbon, we could have led the world in supplying energy and fertilizer (and, being us, ammonium nitrate for explosives) , with no need to depend on free passage through the strait.

We knew the basic technology for solar, wind, heat pumps, batteries - and had over 30 years to develop and improve it. (60 years starting with President Carter's solar panels). Think of what we could have done - just look at what semiconductor technology did in the same time period.

Unfortunately, the buggy whip lobby dominated.

Show threadPG1958WILLNOTCOMPLY 🇺🇸🇷🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸May 10
@PaulWermer @Nonilex all you have to do is look at what china has accomplished in solar and wind in the last 10 years. While trump shuts down turbine farms and pays off companies building them.
Show threadmr. foostang 🇨🇦 May 10
It is not hard at all to think of US defeats. They have had their ass handed to them 3 times by the middle east in my lifetime alone.

The US military is big but it's incompetent.
Show threadStingray Villa CozumelMay 10
@Nonilex so true
Show threadxs4me2May 10

@Nonilex

Checkmate indeed… Operation Epic Failure…

Show thread𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉May 10

@Nonilex

“It’s hard to think of a time when the #UnitedStates suffered a total defeat in a conflict”

lol

Vietnam. Afghanistan. Hard to think?