Zerohedge is surprised that there are still some people in the USA who actually offer real world analysis of the significance of Trump and Kushner s disastrous war with Iran given the level of propaganda which now pervades the US media
Neocon hawk Robert Kagan has said Trump is facing total defeat with Iran and irreversible damage.
Certainly, the longer the war goes on,the worse the disaster for the US and Western economies, and yet people like Tulsi Gabbard and the entire eco system of Billionaire predatos, liars and propaganists s surrounding Trump and JD Vance still do not seem to understand how ba things could still become.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/neocon-grandee-robert-kagan-issues-surprise-scathing-critique-iran-war
Hats off to Robert Kagan who actually shows he has a mind and intelligence. Whether we like bitter facts or not, we have to face a problem to have a chance of solving it.
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In a noteworthy mea culpa from one of America's most influential neoconservative commentators, Robert Kagan believes the United States has suffered a "total defeat" in its ongoing war against Iran, which has permanently shattered its global standing.
Kagan, a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was a vocal advocate of the war against Iraq and a lifelong champion of American military interventions in West Asia.
But in a recent article for The Atlantic, he offered a grim verdict on the current war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on February 28.
"The US suffered a total defeat," Kagan writes, describing the loss as having no precedent in American history and one that can "neither be repaired nor ignored."
While acknowledging that previous American military failures carried heavy costs, Kagan insists this war is fundamentally different in nature.
"The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America's overall position in the world," the prominent commentator writes.
"Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character."
At the heart of this catastrophe, Kagan noted, is Iran's newfound ability to control the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most strategic waterway, without any challenge.
"Iran will be able not only to demand tolls for passage, but to limit transit to those nations with which it has good relations," he writes.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/11/768428/us-suffers-total-defeat-war-against-iran-faces-irreversible-strategic-collapse-neocon-analyst