That's what happens when you fill the upper ranks with yes-men

Not to mention Gaza and the West Bank has been out of the news cycle. The colonists have been doing some heinous shit since the war happened.

Yep, but his biggest blunder was to trust Trump to help him out all the way. What makes Netanyahu a moron in my books is that now after a few years Iran will be stronger and led by military. It will hurt Israel in the long term.

It's his "keeping himself out of jail" plan. Just like with Thwump. The only way not to go to jail is to stay President.

Exactly what he did with Hamas all these years.

The villain loves creating his own enemies to keep his political career going.

Trump didn't lose, but the US did.

The moderate voices in its government were purged or killed, the popular protests against the hard-line Islamists have been crushed and sidelined, there's a (tiny, but unprecedented) wedge driven between the U.S. and Israeli leaders, Israel has lost popular support in much of the West, and its ability to put a chokehold on the world economy via the Strait of Hormuz has been demonstrated without any tangible contest.

They're politically stronger now.

Iran learned they can topple any US government with restrictions on oil. Who needs nukes when you have thirsty brahs in Silverados.

Besides the other replies, Iran has achieved a huge PR coup by revealing that the US is a paper tiger. The popularity of the US among western countries has never been lower because Trump’s Blunder pooched the global economy. Former allies are walking away from economic and military cooperation with the US.

Additionally, the US has to pay Iran 300B in war reparations as part of their surrender. The iranian regime will probably divert those funds to entrench their power.

Do you seriously need someone to explain to you why the country that just chased the American Empire out of the Persian Gulf is stronger than it was before?

However, it is winning its wars against health and a habitable planet.

What a dumb ass in Epstein files loser

That's the Trump-Epstein Files™.

THE BIGGEST, BESTEST, MOST WONDERFUL MENTIONS I THE EPSTEIN FILES. THE LIKES NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN! EVERYONE IS SAYING SO!

He loves dumb losers just like him. He said so.

If by different you mean the loss of american war ships and the same result, sure.

Not saying those are not capable ships, just that that is not the environment they where made to operate in. A nightmare theater for any navy, let alone one with almost no small escort ships (an issue they are well aware of). To make it worse there is nothing for them to do, nothing to really fight there, just risk, mines, minisubs, and land based death. I can see an destroyer in that strait intercepting missiles and drones all day, but to what end? No civilian tanker was going to join them.

Trump ran into the same problem Dubya and his daddy did in Iraq & Afghanistan- sure we can topple the government and defeat their military. That's easy-peasy. But after we do that, who's gonna run the country? In all cases, the answer is "nobody who is acceptable to the US", so the US ends up having to step in and run the place for a time so that it doesn't immediately devolve into "new boss, same old bullshit". Leave a political vacuum in that part of the world and it gets filled by Al Quaida, ISIS, Taliban, or other radical groups that battle it out among themselves for decades, creating another Lebanon. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan.

How could the navy had gone harder? Should they move closer so air refueling is not necessary? This would probably get them hit.

It sounds like cope but... yeah pretty much this. Trump was too scared of dead soldiers, a sunk boat or downed planes to allow any commitment of assets in a way that would have accomplished any of his goals, and as a result the US military was stuck with strategies proved useless by HERMANN FUCKING GORING. It was such a fucking ridiculous loss of life because seventy years of military history have shown that it could never have accomplished anything and was entirely just trump being a pissbaby, but this time with a couple thousand dead people as a backdrop.

FUCK this fucking administration.

What if the US threatens to pull support? It honestly should have happened when the genocide started but here we are

Can't lose a war if you never call it a war.

Ask the Mimbari

Pretty sure you have to have shame to be blackmailed. We all know what trump did, he doesn't give a shit.

It can't be America, must be evil China who (checks notes) hasn't had a war since the 1970s.

You think Trump did this due to blackmail?

His entire history says otherwise, for many decades he has been the exact same sniveling, simpering half-wit.

Why would they blackmail someone who is so easy to manipulate for free? He's a blessing for them. He's so bad, blackmailing him could only improve the situation at this point.

China, please blackmail Trump into being reasonable.

Unfrozen assets that are technically already Iran's vs. a fund where it's not identified who will be doing that funding are very different, though.