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		smcnc 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire > 90% destruction of military is meaningless if 10% can wreck havoc on the strait. The cost associated with eliminating that 10% was deemed too much. That is Iran’s “win”.

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vkou 9 days ago [–]

The winner of a war is not the side with a bigger K/D ratio, it's the side that accomplished its objectives.

Objectively, the US has in every respect backslid on its objectives compared to a month ago.

Iran, on the other hand, went from not controlling the strait to controlling the strait.

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