> and Iran is losing its grip on Hormuz

Remember this is a war that Iran has spent 40 years planning for.

Netanyahu has been doing the same "two weeks away" stand-up comedy since 1992.

Netanyahu asked every single US president. They all took advice and then went back with a polite "thanks, but no thanks".

You don't need to have access to super-secret intel to know going into this frivolous war was a very stupid idea. You just need to look at a standard map and use your brain.

Finally Mr Netanyahu found a stupid enough US president.

And the problem with the current US president is he won't accept a loss.

He is not the sort of person willing to accept he has bitten off more than he can chew.

Nor is he the sort of person who is willing to sit down and have a proper negotiated discussion. Infact he's the very person who just tore up the JPCOA seemingly just because he doesn't like Obama.

Nor is he the sort of person willing to learn from Iraq or Afghanistan.

So we have a stalemate. And a US president who doesn't believe in diplomacy, old-school politics or anything else.

And this stalemate is not one that is going to be resolved with more military firepower. Again, just look at the map....

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TheOtherHobbes 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not a stupid idea at all. The US oil corps are making massive profits.

It's at everyone else's expense, but so is everything else they do.

	▲	traceroute66 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> The US oil corps are making massive profits Its not my area of expertise by any means, but I would perhaps point out the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve chart[1] which is at its lowest level since 1982. It may well be that the artificial party cannot go on forever. [1] https://en.macromicro.me/charts/41674/us-strategic-petroleum...

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Ntrails an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> And the problem with the current US president is he won't accept a loss.

At least he hasn't yet gone nuclear (metaphorically but also literally)

	▲	traceroute66 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> At least he hasn't yet gone nuclear (metaphorically but also literally) Maybe the only possible bit of credit we can give the guy is he said no when the Israelis wanted to use theirs. Isn't it after all supposedly the world's worst kept secret that they have some too ? But I'm also kind of concerned what happens in the unlikely event he does well in the mid-terms, and the same after the Israeli elections ....
	▲	galangalalgol an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The more likely hyperbolic step would be to blow up outgoing pipelines and apply secondary sanctions. Or, as threatened, blow up power and water treatment plants killing large swaths of the civilian population. Nukes wouldn't be necessary to cause mass death.