No. of Recommendations: 9
Strip away the spin, the flashing war-and-peace Fox chyrons designed to juice the stock markets, the dead-eyed cable news ventriloquists of the MAGA media empire, and the frantic stage-management pouring out of the Trump White House, and you arrive at the cold, unsparing truth: we lost the war with Iran…and that’s not even the bad news.
Before the MAGA chorus warms up its dull, predictable shrieking, hear me out, because this is what serious countries do.
Serious countries conduct an honest accounting after a defeat. They look the disaster in the eye, they name it, and they learn from it. They do not retreat into the warm bath of denial, propaganda, and the cheap copium of grievance politics.
We lost. Iran won. The war is over, even if we want to believe otherwise.
The pill is bitter. Swallow it anyway, because everything that comes next depends on our willingness to face what just happened.
Rick Wilson
