VDH is a sad example of how even intelligent people can be sucked into a cult and end up believing stupid shit like 'Trump has a plan'. 'Trump isn't senile' 'Trump is not a retard', etc. I remember seeing him and Kotkin, who isn't any kind of a leftist, discussing Trump 2.0 a while back and it was similarly terriblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltaqMtXtf_c
>>534578573going to take a wild guess that Mirandi thinks Iran is winning bigly
>>534580521Marandi is an actual Iranian government spokesman who has a job to shill for the government so yeah, that's why he's allowed internet when no one else in Iran is.
>>534578573It's impossible to know from here. Everyone says different things. And Iranian anons haven't posted here in a while, which probably means they're in trouble if not dead.
He’s not intelligent. He is what a dumb person thinks is intelligent. He is just a guy who reads books the way a Calvinist reads the Bible, riddled with dogmatic presuppositions and biases, and then talks about what he already knew to be true but then confirmed in the text. Basically, he is literate. Nothing more.
money, fame, or blackmail
>>534578573Everything about Trump's behaviour suggests dementia, narcissism, and just winging it like a retard in deep over his head.On the other hand, Trump is a capable actor (bullshit artist), and someone with actual competence and planning ability could be directing Trump to play the capricious retard while making the shocking, violent, and evil moves they deem necessary to preserve the US imperial system. 5D chess, but Trump is just the hand moving the pieces. The brain would be... well I can't find one because he only seems to hire retards, so it would have to be someone or some thinking collective not in the public eye at all. How can anyone tell when all we have is the media image, the carefully selected "leaks," and endless distractions to go by?
>>534581521Iranian anons can't post because the government in Iran has shut down the internet.
>>534582295Which tells you one thing, it's not going well for them.
>>534582380It's not going well for them in a lot of ways but no one ever doubted that the US can't bomb Iran. The problem is the US could bomb the government in Iran to pieces and you'd end up with a quagmire, possibly a balkanized Iran with various regional terror groups taking advantage, and then the enriched uranium would vanish into the fog of war which isn't a good thing for anyone.The US is very good at bombing stuff, but winning a war isn't done from air power alone. You need to win the peace as well as the war and that's what the US has failed at a lot recently. Doing that with a country like Iran means you either get very lucky and get the opposition into power, which means arming them and coordinating with them (no evidence Trump has done this).Or you do it the old fashioned way, which is the only way that has ever worked historically. Boots on the ground. Just like in ww2. The US could do that but there's no political will for it because it would be a long difficult occupation, much longer than Iraq.The Iranians know that Trump doesn't have the balls to do a big war, so they're using that hesitancy to their advantage.
>>534582380And what's the point of saying that? Of course it's not going well, but they still possess numerous asymmetric advantages that are giving them plenty of leverage to demand terms and demonstrate the limits of US military superiority.
VDH sold out a long time ago, and he's always been a fan of spic illegal migrants.
>>534581785His work on Greek warfare is probably bullshit because it’s too autistic like all Swedish thinkings.
>>534582668Maybe you don't know what the actual goal is.
