It is hard to imagine any nation even remotely as sophisticated as Iran.
Consider this: three days ago, the Ginger Caligula declared Operation Project Freedom, a military operation launched by the U.S. Navy to secure the “safe passage” of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump essentially sent the Navy on a suicide mission. A mission that had zero chance of success unless the real objective was improving U.S. Navy sailors’ swimming skills.
The Iranians could have easily sunk American vessels as they drew close enough. But Iranian admirals ordered their allegedly “destroyed Navy” to instead pour fire onto the UAE and its most sensitive energy infrastructure.
What was the strategy behind this? On the surface, it’s very simple: Iran applies pressure on the UAE; the UAE pressures the Ginger Caligula; the miserable buffoon at the helm declares a U-turn.
But there is another, slightly more sophisticated layer here. Whether anyone in the U.S. is willing to admit it, Iran has won the propaganda war on American soil. It now controls the tsunami of disapproval over the war—directed at the president and his puppeteers in Tel Aviv. That could have changed dramatically if Iran had attacked U.S. Navy vessels.
As much as Americans hate their democratically elected Tel Aviv asset, watching footage of dead American sailors in Gulf waters might have shifted their anti-war sentiments into enthusiasm for total havoc.
The way things stand, there is no chance America can find the sophistication to counter Iranian depth and its understanding of the geopolitical theater. The U.S. Navy is paralyzed in the Gulf—because the United States as a whole is dead in the water.