Post #1684014

The best and most strategic choice for the US was to never bomb Iran. Having failed that, the absolute best and most rational choice for the US is now to accept their current position and withdraw from West Asia entirely. The worst case scenario (still speaking strategically for the US, specifically) _we thought_ would be the US doubling-down and bombing enough Iranian infrastructure which would prompt Iran to retaliate and blow up remaining GCC infrastructure, which would most people agreed would plunge the global economy into a terrible depression and cause widespread famine. But _this_ scenario seems equally as likely to do that, assuming it goes on for long enough, without Iran having to have their infrastructure bombed, plus all the additional political fallout from it being so directly imposed by the US. And even if it doesn't last (kinda doubt it will), it still just looks like terrible and desperate behavior coming from the US. I had this thought when the US first attacked Iran, that we really truly cannot underestimate how incompetent these clowns are, but even I keep being surprised at how profoundly fucking smooth these peoples brains are. We must reach new depths with our predictions; I'm now all in the US canceling elections and doing a draft with ICE enforcement that ends up causing the collapse of the state by 2028.