No. of Recommendations: 13
How would he spin that into "winning"?
By simply declaring it so. Our objective was to blow up their missiles and their navy, after all. No one said anything about preventing Iran from seizing the Strait of Hormuz. So we won the war! Keeping them from seizing the strait, or reclaiming it, wasn't part of what we defined the war to be. We won the hard part, which was dropping bombs and launching missiles. If other countries care about minor details like Iran seizing some of the most strategically important territory on earth, then they should come in and do the easy work of....well, probably seizing a hundred miles of defended mountainous coastline with ground troops.
And we know that most of his supporters will accept that declaration, agree that Trump has achieved an enormous victory that other Presidents were too stupid or timid to achieve, and pivot to the next thing in the attention cycle.
How would that square with the Israeli objective of crushing the regime and tipping the country into endless civil war?
It doesn't, and he won't care. Trump's all about Trump, as so many of his associates and supposed allies have learned over the years.
