alt Hacker NewsWhy can’t they win when oil flow is nearly back to prewar levels? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwp8gn13lmygo (“The volume of oil flowing from the Middle East region has almost returned to pre-war levels, data shows, despite the continued restrictions Iran is placing on vessels attempting to travel through the Strait of Hormuz”).
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porkshoe • today at 12:00 AM
How would that represent victory?
Iran's leadership was replaced with more extreme leadership and America has spent countless billions.
Nothing is better.
Only a hyperpartisan brain could refer to that as any sort of victory.
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Run through the objectives at the outset of this “war” (illegal and unprovoked attack on a sovereign state), and then compare that against “price of oil going back to pre-war levels”.
Trust me, by almost any metric you can think of, this was a strategic defeat for the US.