Donald Trump’s war with Iran is likely to drag on for another six months, Leon Panetta, the former US defense secretary, has warned, as the US president struggles to find his way out of the controversial conflict.
Panetta declared in an interview that the war with Iran – launched by Trump over six months ago – risks becoming another “forever war in the Middle East”, with no clear end in sight.
“It’s no mystery that the United States and Iran are caught in a terrible stalemate, in which there really are very few options available to bring this war to an end,” said Panetta, who also served as CIA director under Barack Obama, suggesting the conflict is on course to become “another failed war” in the Middle East “like Iraq and Afghanistan”.
Because of the impact on the US economy. Iran controls the rate the oil is flowing out of the Gulf, and there’s already a severe impact on the global economy. The effects have been amortized by the release of strategic reserves, but those are starting to run dry as well. On top of that, it’s the US and their vassals in Europe and Asia who are the most affected by the crisis.
What Iranians are doing is dismantling the vassals around them which pushes back American bases, hurts American energy supplies, and creates chaos for their vassals in the Gulf. Israel isn’t really the primary concern here. Once US position in the region collapses, they gonna be fucked as well.
On top of that, even American media is complaining about the logistics problems the US navy has because Iran killed the fifth fleet base in Bahrain and now they have to pull supplies from thousands of kilometres away. Even the whole blockade the US is attempting to run is becoming sustainable already.
There’s a reason the US is now trying to move to economic warfare even though Iran keeps clapping them in Jordan. The US isn’t even trying to respond to the last trike. And isolating Iran is obviously impossible because neither Russia or China will agree to that.
We already know the US cannot sanction China because we saw how the tariff war went. The US was forced to walk that back immediately, and nothing has changed since then. If you think China will cave on this, I have a bridge to sell you.
So the US is fucked both militarily and economically now. They have no way out.
Part of the power of American propaganda is convincing people that the reich is invulnerable and nobody can stand up to them.