[Invictus0]

Only on hacker news is the destruction of all your military hardware and the death of all your leaders a win

[deadbabe]

Those can be replaced. The damage to US reputation and influence will last the rest of our lives.

[Revanche1367]

Not just HN, just about all social media except far-right Trumpist echo-chambers have been calling it a Iran win or at least a US loss.

[mrguyorama]

Buddy France lost it's country and still won WW2

It's the war, not the battle.

[Invictus0]

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/sivy5j/comment/hvi...

Boy is that a terrible analogy. France "won" nothing, they actively collaborated with the Nazis, and they were pretty useless for most of the war.