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submitted 1 week ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/iran@piefed.social

The American empire cannot win the war against Iran at acceptable financial, military, and political costs.

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[-] 20cello@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yep,that was clear to almost everyone since the beginning,I'm pretty sure it was a trump attempt to distract people feom the epstein files while helping his fellow war criminal netanyahu committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon undisturbed. Two birds with one stone...

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

We've seen this story before. Empires tend to overstretch.

[-] failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 1 points 1 week ago

@rimu
"Likely" is doing a lot of work here

I would bet this piece is just rampant speculation dressed up with fancy pundit words like "geostratigic"

eg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/world/middleeast/iran-economy-layoffs.html

this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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