A War That Cannot be Won: Israel and the United States Bomb Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Having just formed the Board of Peace, the United States and Israel have begun the board's first war, this time on Iran.
44% : General Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the architect of the "axis of resistance", which was the first circle of defense for Iran: the idea that if the United States or Israel tried to strike Iran, then Iran's close allies from Hezbollah (Lebanon) to Ansar Allah (Yemen) would strike both Israel and the US military bases.
40% : The US-Israel attack launched early on February 28, on sites in Iran has already caused devastation, including the deaths of at least 60 little girls from an elementary school in Minab (Hormozgan Province), and dozens of others across the country.
40% : They have essentially created the argument that attempts to overthrow the government in Tehran is legitimate even if it is a violation of the UN Charter.
38% : That maximalist end game was driven by the demand by the US and Israel that Iran end an illusionary nuclear weapons program.
37% : With Iran, the US and Israel have no realistic strategy to win.
36% : Israel and the US have been in a state of war against Iran for decades, either through direct military strikes (as recently as June 2025) or through the long hybrid war imposed on Iran (including punitive US sanctions that began in 1996).
36% : Israel's genocide against Palestine weakened Hamas, its war in Lebanon disrupted Hezbollah (especially the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024), and the installation of the former al-Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa as President of Syria in January 2025 led to the removal of all pro-Palestinian groups from the country.
35% : The US and Israel, as well as the foreign media, deliberately misread the situation, proclaiming erroneously that the people of Iran are against their republic.
34% : After the June 2025 strike on Iran's nuclear energy facilities, Israel and the United States said that it had destroyed Iran's capacity to build nuclear weapons.
32% : Despite the attempt by Pezeshkian's government to meet the United States on its terms, the US and Israel pushed for an unrealistic maximalist end game, namely the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
31% : That the US-Israel attacked in this context shows that Iran's nuclear project is not the real issue for Washington and Tel Aviv.
24% : Having relatively broken this first circle of defense, Israel and the United States struck Iran in June 2025 with some Iranian retaliation but nothing like it would have been had Hezbollah and the factions in Syria been able to strike Israel.
23% : Neither Israel nor the United States value the United Nations Charter, whose Article 2 has been routinely violated by both (neither face condemnation in the UN Security Council, which impacts the reputation of the Charter).

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