boy you really are lost, but im sure its fun to pretend i am instead.
you bit off more than you can chew with Iran. you cant beat Iran, except MAYBE with nuclear strikes, without the help of the USA doing most of the legwork militarily. and as i said all along the USA doesnt have the will do to that legwork, or the time. so starting the war would always have led here, as ive said all along. we'll jump in, we'll realize it was a bad idea, midterms will come, and we'll back out. like i said all along.
as to all of the nonsense about JD vance and the regime's moves, im not legitimizing or supporting any of them. they foolishly got into this war, which i was and am against, and now they're scrambling to get out of it and leaving us in a worse place than before we were when we got into it. TBH i didnt predict that, i expected we'd bomb more and come out about neutral militarily but FAR worse financially with a much lower stockpile of bombs. we still took a hit to the pocket book and stockpile, but it hasnt been as bad as i predicted. no issues admitting that. still dont think we'd have forced submission even if we did bomb them doubly what we did. they're not gonna quit.
you bragging about handling the houthis and their ilk is just like trump bragging about taking out iran's navy. you've chastised me many times for calling the proxies an annoyance rather than a legitimate threat, guess you forgot that. now you want credit for swatting flies? puh-leeze.
You have a very short memory if you’re trying to rewrite history to claim Israel can't handle Iran without the US doing 'most of the legwork.'
Let’s look at the actual operational ledger of this war. Israel is the one that has carried out the overwhelming majority of the precision strikes inside Iran—systematically dismantling their air defenses, hitting their nuclear enrichment sites, and taking out their command infrastructure. The US didn't do the heavy lifting on the ground or in the skies over Tehran; they provided defensive interceptor support and launched their own targeted campaigns against specific naval assets.
But you're completely changing the definition of 'beating' an enemy just to salvage your failed prediction. First you ranted that Israel couldn't handle Iran's proxies and that we 'bit off more than we could chew.' Now that the IDF has locked down the northern border and pushed Hezbollah past the Litani, you suddenly flip the script and call the proxies 'swatting flies' and 'child's play' just to move the goalposts.
The US isn't backing out because of a military failure; they are backing out because their political leadership lacks long-term strategic stamina. Trump and JD Vance are scrambling for a 60-day review period because an election is coming up, not because Iran is winning. When the White House has to stand at a press podium and literally argue that a terrorist regime needs ballistic missiles for 'self-defense,' it isn’t a strategic victory it's an embarrassing diplomatic capitulation to buy short-term domestic quiet.