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A question about the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran… So, has anyone determined what US war aims actually are? Damned if I can figure it out.
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Are you talking about the declared aims or the actual aims?
Because they are obviously different things.
And you cannot possibly know the latter.
Surely to destabilise the current regime so that it collapses and is replaced by something better.
Showing its military weakness so glaringly, when the rulers go on about how strong they are, helps achieve that. Killing lots of more experienced leaders helps achieve that. Ruining its economy helps achieve that. Having Iran piss off all its neighbours so that it has no allies helps achieve that.
Trump’s plan appears to be to isolate enemy nations, rather than defeat them frontally.
This isn’t something that will be achieved overnight. The West fought the Cold War in the same way, with lots of people asking if it was worth doing: then suddenly, the USSR collapsed, almost out of the blue.
I would guess he’s using Iran as a foil to increase the coverage of the Abraham Accords.
Blow things up and kill people is my guess.