Balkanization I think, but I don’t think that will happen because Iran has been a pretty cohesive country for thousands of years. So I suspect Trump will back down, or there will be a multi decade regional war, or there will be a world war.
Joe Biden and the Democratic Party leadership are part-and-parcel to this. The downfall of Iran has been continuous American policy for over 40 years, and the party has acts as a honeypot to capture and neutralize progressive policies and politicians, and stop the Overthrow Window from moving leftward. No more opposition to war, no more economic populism, no more social safety net. All they do is run “block tackle” for neoconservatives. The uniparty could not be more obvious right now.
This has been continuous policy over 40 years. The highest United States government policy is to maintain “full spectrum dominance” across the globe, militarily, financially, and socially (soft power). The latter two have waned to the extent that we are over dependent on the first.
I hear what you’re saying and typically I would agree with you, but I don’t think it’s gonna work that way. I think the shock of losing a carrier or a carrier and a few jets and not accomplishing anything will create a blowback of a larger magnitude than these fuckwits are calculating, and faster too. This is existential for Iran and they’ve been planning for it for decades, this isn’t 2001, this isn’t Iraq or Lybia, yadda yadda yadda, you know where I’m going with this.
This is a “Hail Mary” and the quarterback has blinders and can’t stay awake for more than a few hours.
Tariffs don’t make sense unless they’re willing to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into making these industries competitive, but they’re not doing that, on the contrary, they’re dumping hundreds of billions into what?
The police state, to quell the inevitable uprisings that will happen once the economy crashess
Balkanization I think, but I don’t think that will happen because Iran has been a pretty cohesive country for thousands of years. So I suspect Trump will back down, or there will be a multi decade regional war, or there will be a world war.