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*[[Alastair Crooke]]: [https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/irans-determination-to-breakout-from Iran's Determination to Breakout from the Panopticon of Western 360° Containment].
*[[Alastair Crooke]]: [https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/irans-determination-to-breakout-from Iran's Determination to Breakout from the Panopticon of Western 360° Containment].
:"Yet the US reality is stark [https://x.com/imetatronink/status/2042272191757357318 (Schryver)]:
:"Yet the US reality is stark [https://x.com/imetatronink/status/2042272191757357318 (Schryver)]:
::“The US has lost its naval presence and military bases in the Persian Gulf region; its entire inventory of stand-off munitions has been nearly exhausted, along with its air defences, which have been proven woefully ineffective”.
::“The US has lost its naval presence and military bases in the [[Persian Gulf]] region; its entire inventory of stand-off munitions has been nearly exhausted, along with its [[air defence]]s, which have been proven woefully ineffective”.
::“This is what decisive strategic defeat looks like”.
::“This is what decisive [[strategic]] defeat looks like”.
:"As [[Ben Rhodes]], former US Deputy National Security Advisor, put it:
:"As [[Ben Rhodes]], former US Deputy National Security Advisor, put it:
::“It’s hard to lose a war this short: this comprehensively”.
::“It’s hard to lose a war this short: this comprehensively”.