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In part it is just a trump fuck up but only because he is the fuck up in the position. (can you imagine KKKopmala doing any better?) The american plan that existed for decades was “we should make Iran our slave.” The actual plan they used was a mash up of old moves that worked in the past in totally different conditions and they didn’t even get the timing right.
It is also a systemic failure because under the american system loyalty is more important than honesty. So they end up with a ever increasing systemic hubris.
Previous administrations did try to take Iran. Saddam’s Iraq was pumped up with weapons by the west for the Iran-Iraq war.
Previous administrations allowed themselves to be constrained by the rules they made up, but the current admin doesn’t care about the rules because they’re woke. I do think that has an influence on their decisions on Venezuela and Iran, without the rules they can just kidnap and kill their leaders instead of relying on sanctions, color revolution, the “”“rules based international order”“” etc etc
Then again, they basically torched the rules already in Gaza, so maybe they’d have been less reluctant to break more rules.
They haven’t followed their own laws since ww2. usa hasn’t been at “war” since ww2. They are all “armed conflicts” or “police actions.”
Yeah, but the rules and the laws are different, that’s why they call it the “”“rules based international order”“” instead of international law. The rules are just something they made up, but they allowed themselves to be constrained by them. They could have removed Maduro or started war with Iran whenever they wanted, but that would go against the rules. That’s why they tried everything else under the Sun to destroy them without actually landing troops or dropping bombs. They didn’t want to do this without ideological rules-based justification before.