https://snyder.substack.com/p/capitulation-day
"The United States has capitulated to Iran. There is a “deal,” which has been
signed, on terms that can only be described as those of complete Iranian
victory.
The US-Iranian talks that were supposed to begin today were cancelled, so today
is as good a day as any to discuss the signed “memorandum of understanding” and
mark the completion of the disaster. We have what we have: humiliation.
War, as some people apparently needed to learn, is not about the pleasure one
takes in watching things blow up. It is politics by other means. To win a war
means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is
what Iran just did to the United States.
This war was a parade of Trump’s incompetence at every possible level from the
beginning. To win a war requires understanding the politics of the other side
and how it might be changed. Trump, Hegseth and the others treated the Iranian
leadership as cartoon characters who would immediately do what Americans wanted
as soon as the bombs fell. The Americans had no strategy — no sense of how
violence could change politics — and it did not occur to them that the
Iranians would have one. Once the Iranians did the obvious, which was to
respond to American long-range strikes with their own, and close the Straits of
Hormuz, the war was over, and they had won. The Americans had no second move,
except to claim that they had won when they had lost (which they are,
laughably, still doing).
It matters that we no longer employ qualified people to handle matters of war
and peace, but leave war planning to entertainers and negotiations to
profiteers."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
