Another endless war?
the war favors Iran and not the United States because playing defense is much more costly than playing offense. The other way is that for Iran, this is an existential war, right? And in fact the spokesperson from Iran basically made this point. I mean their backs are up against the wall. They are facing not just regime change but potentially regime collapse. And so they are fighting with everything they've got and they have every incentive to continue to do that um indefinitely. Whereas for the United States aside from prices at the pump and that is a big deal. It's starting to become the bigger deal. Most Americans are not affected by this war. This was not a war that was necessary for US national security. Some people are calling it a war of choice. I call it a war of whim. This was just sort of on a whim that Trump did it thinking it would be low cost and easy. But we don't have the same kind of stakes in this fight. And so ultimately all Iran has to do is keep fighting to outlast us. They don't have to win. They can't win, but they cannot lose. and they cannot lose as long as it takes until the United States eventually decides it's not worth it for us.
this whole coastline of Hormuz, which is Iranian is 2,000 km long. I mean so what do you get? You put 2,400 marines into this. I mean that equates to one marine for every kilometer of the coastline. I mean, and then what do you do? Who's going to keep supplying them? How are they going to be reinforced? How are they going to be supported? All a mystery. No one says, no one sort of spells it out. I suspect because they can't. And that's why I wonder if it'll really happen because I mean I can't think of, you know, a better recipe for disaster than to try and land a lot of, you know, Americans who are completely unfamiliar with the Middle East into a country which is mountainous, has forests, has tunnels, and has an army of a million men.
the idea of victory for a Muslim is not exactly the same as for a westerner. For us, as we have learned in military schools, the victory is defined by the way you destroy your enemy. For a Muslim, generally speaking, the victory is defined by the way you accept to fight, your determination to fight. It's not the victory over the enemy. The victory is over yourself. And that's changed the perspective completely because in the western mind you are constrained by to reach an objective and your your victory is objective uh I mean the objective of distraction defined while in a Muslim it's the objective is in yourself. You don't need, I mean for a Muslim you cannot demand to someone to win over a more powerful enemy. If the enemy is more powerful, well, what can you do? But what you certainly have to do is to have the determination to fight. And therefore the victory is not whether you destroy the enemy but your victory is that you didn't give up towards the enemy.
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we play with word in order to show that Iran tried to escalate the conflict and tried to target a lot of countries. In fact, Iran has been extremely disciplined, extremely uh uh consistent with this response, had targeted only those um targets that are related to those territory that belong in some way to the US and the UK.
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it's not an escalation and that's what something you you hear in the European rhetoric that Iran is escalating the conflict. No, it's not. is just fighting the the countries that attacked him. The problem is that the US and the UK are in fact using these Middle East countries and Cyprus as a so-called sanctuary to fight Iran.
What the US has lost in this war is not measured in casualties or the number of placed blown up. The USA has lost the respect they once had in the Middle East. This is a war started by Netanyahu getting Trump to come in to fund his war against Iran and if you recall the ’70s, the whole OPEC oil crisis back then was because the USA was supporting israel against the Arabs. Claiming Iran has nukes and this is a preemptive strike still makes the USA and Israel the aggressors. This has unleashed a Middle East conflict that is not confined to Iran and now the USA wants the Gulf States to pay for the war against Iran?
www.armstrongeconomics.com - Trump Demands Gulf States Pay $5 Trillion to Fund War
