00:05the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday brought some relief yes the
00:10war between a US Israel and Iran ended for at least two weeks but that's all
00:17about it but who won actually have you ever wondered was it Iran United States
00:23Israel all of them or no one well simply put wars rarely end with the neat
00:31conclusions and the United States is really war against Iran also called
00:36operation epic fury is no exception official declarations of success ring
00:42hollow in the geopolitical debris tells a different story the United States and
00:46Israel may claim a decisive victory but the truth is far more complex the war
00:53has left Iran bloodied yet unbowed the United States strategically overextended
00:59and the region sliding into deeper instability in a sense this war was
01:07where everyone lost something vital but Iran paradoxically may emerge may emerge
01:13with the more enduring kind of victory when hostilities began on February 28th
01:20under President Donald Trump's orders the stated objectives were ambitious
01:25destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure break its missile capabilities dismantle
01:32proxy networks across the region and push for a regime change in Tehran militarily
01:38Washington and Jerusalem delivered devastating flows as reports show US
01:44Israeli bombing campaigns obliterated upwards of 90 percent Iran's Navy and missile
01:51infrastructure assassinated hundreds of Iranian military leaders including
01:56members of the top command and crippled Tehran's air defense grid by a
02:01traditional military metrics this looks like an overwhelming success however war in
02:07the 21st century isn't decided by the rubble count Iran facing overwhelming force
02:13recalibrated the conflict onto asymmetric and political ground a realm where the United
02:20States grip has weakened dramatically Tehran executed a long game strategy draining the
02:27United States missile defense inventory weaponizing global energy disruption through the
02:33temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz and reframing the conflict as another case of Western
02:40overreach every day that Iran's regime survived became a symbolic rebuke to the notion of Western
02:48omnipotence every Patriot missile intercepted a $5,000 drone not just a warhead Tehran's low-cost
02:58attrition strategy turned American firepower into a liability politically Iran's survival is its
03:07victory regime change failed the Islamic Republic remains battered but intact retaining its ideological
03:15identity and regional influence through Hezbollah the Houthis and resurrected Iraqi militias Iran's
03:24narrative of defiance has already begun to resonate across the Middle East where public see a nation
03:30standing firm against two nuclear powers as Asia times argued Iran may now leverage the conflict to
03:39isolate the United States diplomatically seek sanctions relief under a post-war ceasefire and exploit the
03:47of fractures between Washington and its Gulf allies in that sense survival itself becomes strategic leverage
03:55the United States faces an unenviable strategic reckoning the war's immediate aims neutralizing Iran's military
04:03came at the expense of longer-term goals which is stability in global energy markets deterrence
04:11its credibility against China and cohesion with NATO and Gulf allies energy prices have soared European
04:19governments are distancing themselves from Washington's unilateralism and the Indo-Pacific has become
04:26dangerously exposed as US munitions stocks run perilously low in geopolitical terms America won the battle
04:35but weakened its position in the global order an outcome that resembles the Iraq war's aftermath more than
04:43the end of world war ii Israel too is discovering the hollowness of total victory its military dominance is
04:51undeniable but the psychological front the constant reign of sporadic missile fire and the escalation of
04:59hezbollah's capabilities suggests no true sense of security as vinit news analysis of a so-called decisive victory recognizes
05:10israel's success is real but limited to the short-term disruption of iran's plans not their eradication
05:18like many of its previous campaigns this one may simply reset the clock until the next round of confrontation
05:25georgetown's journal of international affairs rightly warns that such a war risked strategic overreach and
05:33regional instability that warning has proven prophetic the united states and israel might have won the
05:41operational war but iran has seized the narrative advantage preserved its regime and exposed the fragility of
05:50western hegemony in a multipolar world in the united states iran war teaches a familiar lesson in modern
05:59conflicts the side that defines victory on its own terms often wins by that measure iran the weaker power
06:08militarily but the more resilient politically has written the final chapter of this war and it reads less
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