« This war is on track to cost the United States more than $1 trillion. It has resulted in enormous damage to American military bases in the Middle East, significantly reduced the stockpile of interceptor missiles on which the United States relies to deter China and other potential adversaries, put tens of millions of people around the world at risk of acute hunger, accelerated inflation in the United States, and led to the death or injury of hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iranians, including more than 100 children who were reported killed when a Tomahawk missile mistakenly hit an elementary school in the town of Minab.
Despite this economic and human toll, the war has achieved very little. While the president has been typically erratic in outlining the warâs aims, over the past three months he has generally stressed three objectives: eliminating Iranâs ballistic missiles, ending its nuclear program and helping the Iranian people overthrow their government.
None of that has happened. According to Americaâs own intelligence, the Islamic Republic retains roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile. The United States has neither eliminated Iranâs access to the highly enriched uranium that it could potentially use to build a nuclear bomb nor taken down the Islamic regime itself. Indeed, the Iranian government is arguably stronger than it was when the war began, having demonstrated its ability to cripple the global economy by restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. »
â Peter Beinert writing at the New York Times.
The undeclared and unauthorized Trump Iran war has been the sort of fiasco we would expect from a dumbass loser like Donald Trump. The only good that might come out of it is that it may cause more people to see the benefits of renewable energy which is not subject to the whims of emirs, ayatollahs, or semi-literate orange billionaires.
Trump is now lying about his past campaign promises not to involve the US in new wars. Trump's serial lying is not exactly news. But for the record, CNN did a fact check which easily exposed his lies.
Fact check: Trump told NBC that he never promised not to start a new war. He did, repeatedly
His most glaring promise from the 2024 campaign...
"Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all."
Trump also promised to end inflation and the Russian war on Ukraine on Day One â but those are different lies.
