Despite already having ranted on the subject at length, I find it hard to ignore the upcoming war with Iran.
Every single war in the M-E has failed, going back decades now, and most recently in Yemen and Afghanistan-- so we don't need to speculate about the potential outcome of this one, and anyone doing so is simply retarded: it will fail too, just like all the other ones, with the only real question being how.
Anyone ignoring this obvious fact, is just a paid propagandist trying to rebrand the status quo as based, edgy, shocking, new, etc-- nowadays, probably some Millennial faggot on Twitter, as opposed to some equally retarded Boomer on Fox News, but still the same old same old.
I think it helps to categorize the different outcomes of previous conflicts using Nassim Taleb's terms: either the affected nation collapses under the immense stress and never recovers ('fragile') or the continuous intervention manages to create a force that winds up wiping out the invaders ('anti-fragile').
The examples of fragility are Libya, Syria, and Iraq-- the ruling regime and the institutions are destroyed, but without replacing them with a pro-American version, and so the entire nation just plunges into pure anarchy and chaos, without us gaining control over resources, territory, population, etc, just a sheer waste of lives for no benefit.
Given how weak and old the regime in Iran is, with the protests and general senility and so on, this is certainly a possibility.
The other set of outcomes are less discussed by the media, or even by anti-war Americans, because they're humiliating to think about-- but it's a textbook case of what happens when you continuously and naively intervene: you wind up in incentivizing the creation of an even more hostile force.
This is what has taken place in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Yemen-- it's not that the invasion failed, but they actually became stronger, and wound up going on the offensive. Anti-fragile growth.
The Taliban withstood the US Army, and then kicked them out and took control over the entirety of Afghanistan. Lebanon withstood the Israeli invasion, kicked them out in the 2000s, resisted another invasion in 2006, and has now forced them out of Northern Israel. The Houthis resisted a decade of bombing from the Pentagon, won their civil war, and now control the Red Sea.
It goes beyond mere defeat-- an even worse loss than if you had not gotten involved.
I don't rule out this process taking place in Iran either, and perhaps especially if the ruling regime is assassinated / destroyed-- neocon retards are barely able to think two steps ahead, or account for the effect of their own actions.
In any case, those are the examples to keep in mind. (And again, anyone thinking we're going to see amazing benefits -- retarded, and probably a puppet.)
I've also discussed this before, but here in America we seem to have entered into the Era of the School Shooter in the 2020s-- we've gone from having more and more corrupt elites, but hiding it somewhat, to now having openly anti-social, unhinged, freaks who hate the people they're in charge of.
It's not an exaggeration to say that they resemble some psychotic loser blowing up his school more than anyone with a trace of sanity, and in fact they'll probably be remembered in those terms: they simply no longer bother hiding the contempt they feel for the people under them.
In this particular case, with the military, I imagine they've realized how unpopular their agenda is with the post-Boomer generations, and especially with Millennials and Zoomers (regardless of how much they spend on marketing, branding, paying off Millennials on Twitter, etc).
They also know that America is headed for some kind of severe financial crisis.
This means that the days of occupying the world, or propping up Israel, or fighting pointless wars in the M-E will be drawing to a close soon-- and I think they've figured that out, and are waging one final unhinged campaign against their enemies, a kind of all-out assault before they bite the dust for good.
This is not limited to the military (just the most dramatic example)-- you see the same behavior throughout most institutions, such as the COVID response, the DNC rigging elections and forcing Biden / Kamala onto their own voters, politicians like Vivek and Musk openly telling Americans to embrace being replaced with cheap labor, and so on and so forth.
Power-tripping on steroids, pointless campaigns that achieve nothing, doubling down on a losing hand, and committing suicide for no real reason-- that's the new era we live in, and that's why I don't waste my time trying to find a logical high-IQ motive to explain or justify this behavior, since it doesn't exist.