Again, they did not start war with the United States - we attacked them. We had a nuclear deal with Iran and our own intelligence assessment was that they were

Again, they did not start war with the United States - we attacked them. We had a nuclear deal with Iran and our own intelligence assessment was that they were NOT making weapons. I'm going to take a second to cover some of the unintended consequences of this. First I'm going to point out that both Libya and Ukraine were disasters for non-proliferation. This (Iran) cements the fact that any regime, regardless of the cost or deal(s) with the Untied States, should absolutely develop nuclear weapons. If you're going to be bombed for NOT developing weapons, why would you actively NOT develop them? North Korea has them and has not been attacked - implying you must as rapidly as possible develop them, so as to not be attacked. The US will not save you if you give up your weapons (Libya, Ukraine), and will attack you if you aren't developing them (Iran). Therefore, get them ASAP, and never ever give them up is the obvious choice. Let's take a second to look at the other logic here. You're saying that the country is "currently losing a full scale war" - the implication here is that the power imbalance will protect us. I'm going to point out that "we can lose much in winning"; what if we win, but this new enemy flattens a few American cities, or sinks a carrier group? Being "big" isn't an invulnerability shield of some sort. Doing this, we also potentially "burned" the stealth signature of both the F35 and the B2 - you don't think there were a handful of Chinese radars in that lot? Post processing of the radar data might allow our adversaries to come up with counters. Was it worth it? How will we feel about this if we discover later that they're both countered in a South China Sea/Taiwan dispute? If this state is a "pariah", surely many countries will join us? No? Are we the "arsenal of Democracy" or did we turn our back on, say, Ukraine? Did we abide by all of our deals? Did our own intelligence show that they were a threat? Pariah states are those led by criminals, right? Totally unrelated, but wasn't Bibi on trial for corruption and scheduled to get cross examined in the next week or so? Pariah states threaten even allies, right? Like talking about invading Canada, or taking Greenland? They're led by criminals - would a convicted felon count? Just trying to be very clear here. Would a pariah state threaten their friends to extract concessions, or maybe illegally deploy the military, and let other criminals out of prison? Would a pariah state make Studio Ghibli images of crying women being arrested, "ASMR" videos of people in shackles, and promote them from official accounts? Who does this remind you of? I posit this chain of actions made us, and the world less safe; this is an unmitigated disaster in every dimension.