I'm gonna let you finish, but starting a completely pointless war with Iran is one of the greatest strategic blunders of all time.
It's one of the classic blunders: never get involved in a land war in asia.
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Pointless? Have you noticed which energy companies are making record profits? Who is filling demand for oil & gas if the ME refineries are blown up or blockaded?
The destruction of the research and development education pipeline in the USA that took 75 years to build because “college and women and minorities bad/Israel always good” was vying for the title only a few months ago.