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by ben_w
54 days ago
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The US lost by ending in a worse position than it started, and achieved none of its aims. Iran is still there, the new leadership is even more anti-US than the old one, the nation sucessfully defended itself by closing the strait. The US unnecessarily strained all but one (Israel being the exception) of its main allies with the incoherent "we expect your help even though we didn't ask for it and keep dismissing you" statements from the White House directed at NATO, a lot of its allies in the region who got struck directly by Iranian countervalue strikes are wondering what's the point of being allies with the US; the US expended a significant chunk of munitions that will take a long time (I hear "years") to replace; and even the short term benefits[0] coming from the US being a net oil exporter are mostly serving to drive the world to electrify even faster than they already were to reduce oil dependence as much as possible, which means the world is buying even more Chinese PV etc. than before. [0] which are limited both by Dutch disease and oil being an input for a huge range of products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease |
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