Iran & Middle EastPartly

The US will keep losing the Iran war and grow desperate enough to commit war crimes against civilian infrastructure.

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After the ceasefire collapsed in July 2026, the US struck bridges, a railway station and power infrastructure in southern Iran, and legal experts called this a potential war crime (CENTCOM said the targets were military). Whether the US is 'losing' is disputed; most analysts describe a stalemate.

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as the Americans become much more desperate, as they continue to lose this war, they'll be like, "Screw this. I'm going to win this war no matter what it takes.
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The US-Iran ceasefire will not hold; the war will resume within a week, two weeks or a month because no mutually satisfying arrangement is possible.

The ceasefire did eventually fail, but not within the month: there were skirmishes and US 'self-defense' strikes around Hormuz on May 7, a ceasefire extension and a peace memorandum in June, and full-scale war resumed only on Jul 8, 2026, about 10 weeks after the video.

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Resolved Jul 2026said Apr 2026
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Over the next few months America will shift to a 21st-century strategy against Iran: economic strangulation, stoking ethnic insurgency, and destroying civilian infrastructure (dams, power plants, roads, rail).

Economic strangulation intensified: the naval blockade (in place since Apr 13) was reinstated in July and the 'Economic D-Day' sanctions campaign followed in August. The US also hit bridges, a railway station and power infrastructure in July. There is no evidence of the US stoking ethnic insurgencies or striking dams by Aug 28.

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Resolved Aug 2026said Apr 2026
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US ground forces will seize Kharg Island and the coastline and position forces in the northwest and southeast to spark ethnic uprisings in Iran.

Nearly six months after the video, no US ground force has seized Kharg Island or the Iranian coastline, and none is positioned in northwest or southeast Iran. Kharg was only struck from the air, and seizing it remained a floated option.

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Resolved Oct 2026said Apr 2026
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