Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
China has done a better job at building resilience to bad stuff happening in the world compared to the United States. Both US market actors and politicians have been too focused on short-term incentives rather than building resilience that helps in the long-run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Qnf3-gZ4o
The US blockade of Iran is still on. Iran is hurting from its lack of sales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11OwcLDJcw
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan are now defensive allies!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNhTc_0tg7Y
The US has been putting heavy financial pressure on Iraq to crack down on Iraqi Iranian proxies who try to stop oil from flowing through pipelines through Iraq, bypassing Hormuz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYARu_qigL0
The F-35’s Class A flight mishap rate at this point in its history is quite good compared to other aircraft at that point in their history!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuxM5lg8Jo
The Trump administration keeps claiming how well they have degraded Iranian capabilities, but US bases keep getting hit. Iran isn’t going to surrender due to air strikes. The best way to win the war is a full land invasion, with the massive costs that that would entail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgn9dL9T_cI
The Iranian regime has a very high pain threshold, much higher than the US. They are willing to take a lot of destruction without giving in. Assassinating Ali Khamenei was a huge mistake. He was evil in a lot of ways, but he did care about his people and appeared to actually be against nuclear weapons. The new leaders care less about the people and are willing to let Iranians suffer tremendously.
The US didn’t seem to have a plan for the Strait of Hormuz. There were plans on the shelf, but no real reworked plan with preparation.
Opening the Strait of Hormuz by force would require ground troops, but Trump is against that.
Trump indicated verbally multiple times that he has a low pain threshold with regards to the economy. Why would Iran give in when Trump has indicated that he can’t take the pain?
The US didn’t fix its munitions shortage before choosing to attack.
The reporting indicates that Trump was for this war and most of the rest of his administration was against it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eGQBxy4W0A
The US military needs to improve its urban warfare and subterranean warfare capabilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfqD0Oaa48
Greece foreign policy history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDAMnloqXE
Within the conservative group in Iran’s leadership, there is a divide between neverending war until Israel is destroyed, as well as no talks with the US, and a side that believes in the theocracy but are more pragmatic and willing to make peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6Zb83XMjk