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Because there is no achievable win condition, and there never was. Starting this war was equivalent to losing it.
by hotdog1492 1mo ago
Because there is no achievable win condition, and there never was. Starting this war was equivalent to losing it.
- tencentshill 1mo agoIt really illustrates how a lot of historic decisions were essentially arbitrary. The powerful just do things all the time for no concrete reason. Almost nothing can truly affect them.
- DoctorOetker 1mo agoRegardless of the likelihood of Trump reaching win conditions, I see no reason why the pentagon couldn't reach such win conditions. We see both sides inflicting pseudo-creative attacks on the other, and the other side responding with mirror images. Basically whenever someone does something, first ask, can the same be done in reverse? Iranian TV claims a $ 10M prize on Barron Trump's head: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608247954 https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608247954 What prevents pentagon from promising the same reward + exfiltration + safe haven for ~50 people (select family and friends)? US has demonstrated exfiltration of pilot on Iranian territory. Can Iran demonstrate the same on US soil? If pentagon is really wise, it wouldn't just promise this and leave the implicit insight of mirror threat up to the reader, it could provide an exit by demanding the same news channels to publicly and explicitly withdraw the reward promise, leaving implicit conclusions on bargaining power, when state television publicly eats its own words. Regardless how anti-Trump or pro-diplomacy one may be, a state that permits its state television to initiate issuing mercenary bounties in public is simply not a candidate for diplomacy.