Mohammad Mostafavi

تا اینجای کار بزرگترین برنده اختلافات بین آمریکا و اروپا و مکزیک و کاناد و وقایع اوکراین ایشون بوده بدون اینکه هیچ کاری بکنه و فقط سکوت کرده به قول ناپلئون بناپارت – زمانی که دشمنت در حال اشتباه کردن است هیچ وقت مزاحم او نشو

Iranian leaders have achieved operational success in externalizing the costs of this war. But their *strategy* still failed because they did not anticipate three things. First, that U.S. allies, including the Gulf states that have so lavishly fetted Trump, would have essentially no influence over the decisions he makes. Second, that neither the U.S. president nor his cabinet would care about unprecedented disruptions in the global economy and would make it known publicly that they don’t care. Third, that the U.S. president could express glee about the prospect of endless escalation and the commission of war crimes and not a single part of the famous American system of checks and balances would block him from intensifying this idiotic, ruinous war. In the face of Israeli and American aggression, Iran chose a perfectly rational, if risky, strategy. They managed to make it work operationally. But Trump’s pursuit of this war is fundamentally irrational. He is a mad king. Rex interregnum.