I Guess We Won?

Friday marked the 60-day mark before Trump had to address Congress. He said it stopped, so we’re going to wait for the Iranians to make a move and say what is really going on. I think Trump was just trying to bully Iran into negotiations, and got thirteen service members killed, and hundreds wounded. The question is: What did we gain from it? What did we learn? I know, as reasonable people, we learned that Iran is tougher than we previously thought. They had the advantage despite losing many military assets. But what was the point? What did we gain from nearly two months of bombing? What I got out of it was that we pretty much didn’t move the needle on things.

Sure, we dropped a lot of bombs, huzzah! But the end result is that we didn’t gain a single advantage over Iran; sure, we killed their leader and other leaders, got it, but Iran is still a functioning country despite the bombing. I think somewhere along the way, Trump realized they weren’t going to roll over as much as he thought they would. We didn’t force them to the table, but they tend to believe more about the progress than the Trump Administration, because yes, Iranians are shifty; they know they look better than we do, by a long shot. We, with our multimillion-dollar missiles and jets, didn’t really shift the power to us; we don’t hold the cards, as some would say. Trump would like to say that he holds all the cards… But what kind of hand does he have? Not a strong one at best. He literally showed that the US can’t fight as well as they did in the GWOT era. We lost that, too, and strictly bombing Iran with airpower wouldn’t win us anything.

For now, it seems that peace is okay right now, but with the Iranians holding the Strait of Hormuz, any dumb shit could happen, and raises the question of how an “obliterated” nation somehow controls the Strait still? I figured that with all the posturing from Hegseth and Trump, they were saying we won continuously, but we have little to show as a nation about how we actually won the military operation. For Trump to resort to negotiations shows that he should have done this. But I’m not worried about Iran getting a nuke, though, more like they were stopping the flow of communism by defending Indochina, and we all know how that worked out. Anyway, the news is quiet for once, but once again, Trump will do something brazen and quite shocking, because he can’t stand not being talked about. Which makes me wonder what we’ll all do when he dies, not just MAGA, but over ten years of abuse gone… We’ll recover, slowly, but surely.