Der Krieg macht Iran zu einer großen Weltmacht

The proxy war strategy has been incredibly effective for Iran. They’re gaining influence across the region without direct military confrontation, which is honestly pretty smart geopolitically even if we don’t like the outcomes.

You have to give it to Trump, no other President has managed to wrestle control from Oil markets and given it to their enemies.

World power? No. Weak? Also no. 

If they’re smart (they definitely are) and plan this out right, they can parlay their new influence into more partnerships with China and other ~~superpowers~~ *world powers*.

Edit: ok I get it, I used the wrong term

4 Dementia chess!

Iran may willingly trade nuclear power for the Economic Power they can gain from this in the World Order.

They could very easily make a lot of money from other nations just to sail the Strait of Hormuz to fund their military and whatever other „adventures“ they decide to undertake.

This is trump’s legacy. He will for ever be known as the loser president that lost it all.

> The United States faces a difficult choice: either commit to a long-term effort to reassert control over the Strait of Hormuz, or accept a new global energy arrangement in which U.S. control is no longer assured.

> If it chooses acceptance, the outcome is clear: The international system will reorganize with Iran as a fourth center of global power. Yet if the United States chooses to reassert military control, it is in for a long battle, one it could well lose.

> The Iran war is not a military conflict from which the United States can simply back out, with things reverting to how they were before. Iran would surely demand a heavy price in a new accommodation with the United States — but this price will surely be less costly than that of the alternative future. This is a transformational war, and if these changes continue for even a few years, the global order will change irrevocably.

>Robert A. Pape (@ProfessorPape) is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.

Trustworthy source. Worth full read. (No paywall.)

is it possible that it’s America getting weaker to a third world country

This is what conservative „leadership“ looks like

I was telling my homies, this whole thing popped off cause the BB regime wanted to be a world superpower but it has literally shown and had the opposite effect lol

ITT: „LOL Iran isn’t a major world power!“

Meanwhile iterally every gas station on the planet, and every individual pumping gas on the planet, is affected by what Iran does…

„He who controls the spice, controls the universe!“

~~ Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

„About that… actually, just controlling 20% of shipping will do pretty well.“

~~ Yran

Much like how Ukraine humbled Russia, Iran has humbled the US.

No matter how many Billions in weapons you bring you will always struggle to defeat a determined group of people fighting on their home turf, especially if they have drones.

Seriously the biggest outcome from this fiasco is that it’s demonstrated the weakness of the US Navy. One of the Navy’s core missions is to maintain safe navigation of the seas. The US Navy is nowhere near the war though because they know they can’t protect themselves from these cheap drones. That’s a serious problem. If the USN is too afraid to risk a single ship to combat then Taiwan is already lost.

Trumps greatest accomplishment is being Russias most influential asset.

Russia really played the long game loaning/laundering him money and inviting him to beauty pageants. And it is paying off very nicely in their favor

Despite the massive self own that this has been for the US, it’s also pretty ridiculous to call Iran a “world power” after this eventually ends. Large portions of their conventional military have been destroyed and I doubt the true damage to their economy has been calculated yet. At best they’ll have a more clear cut authority over the strait of Hormuz, which is bad, but it doesn’t make them a world power.

They’re set to get about 100 million based on their new oil prices per barrel.

Enough to rebuild their cities and re-establish their army.

Meanwhile we’re losing billions and have nothing to show for it.

Thanks Trump.

And the ridiculous thing is, everybody who understood anything about the geopolitics of the region already knew Iran could block the Strait easily. This was all very forseeable.