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Hard to spin your supreme leader and all your generals and military commanders being flattened as a win.

• toraway 7mo ago
  Not really that hard when the alternative is the regime collapsing and/or giving up their nuclear program?
• platinumrad 7mo ago
  Yes, we basically pressed a magic button that eliminated two layers of leadership (as well as hundreds if not thousands of civilians). Now, what strategic objectives have we accomplished?
• 8note 7mo ago
  do they matter if everyone else gets incredibly rich after? the US killed an old man and his family, and also a bunch of people who'd already written all of their handoff docs
• noelsusman 7mo ago
  The thing to remember about Iran is it's a country run by religious fanatics. Ask a secular democracy if they would trade the lives of most of their political and military leaders for a 10% boost to GDP and they would look at you like you're insane. Ask 86 year old Ali Khamenei if he would trade dying from an Israeli bomb landing on his house for Iran establishing a stranglehold on global oil trade and securing $100 billion in annual toll revenue, and he would have been ecstatic.
• samrus 7mo ago
  Call it a draw then. Which is crazy against the world superpower. And terrible for the US