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How do you know that's the strategy?
I think I'm confused what you're trying to say, here. I was pointing out how the current prosecution of the war would not lead to us achieving any of the things you identified as goals (eliminating the threats from drones, missiles, closing of Hormuz, etc.). You responded, unless the mullahs aren't in charge. So unless that's the strategy - to have a popular uprising and displace the mullahs - then we don't achieve our goals. I don't know that's the strategy; in fact, I think it really isn't. But if that's not the strategy, then how does anything we're doing eliminate the threat of, say, drones from Iran going forward?
Really? I can imagine much worse than this.
Much worse than this in the Middle East. You were suggesting that China is doing things with Iran in order to cause us headaches or a resource drain. None of China's contributions to Iran, though, did or could have caused anything like what we're undergoing right now.
We're not doing anything to ourselves.
We're depleting tens of billions of dollars in military resources, including some of the most critical equipment in our THAAD and anti-missile equipment. To the point where we're possibly relocating it from other theaters - including Asia. All the while enduring an energy crisis and further straining our relationships with our allies. All for a war that we chose to fight, in pursuit of strategic objectives which are a mix of either unattainable (eliminating Iran's drone or ballistic missile threat), unlikely to be obtained (eliminating their nuclear threat), or trivial (eliminating their navy). Exactly the sort of headaches, distractions, and resource drains that you were describing.
Seems like we're doing a lot to ourselves that we didn't need to do.
