Interesting discussion regarding wars of choice v wars of necessity. However, in this case israel sees it as a war of necessity while USA as a war of choice. Depending on which actor's vision prevails determines the duration of the conflict.
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I'm out of words here
Much talk about whether we are seeing the start of a WW3 - more accurately the US/Israel - Iran war is a regional war led by Israel with the US supporting them. This is a regional war with global implications rather than a global one happening in the Middle East region.
There seems to be more or less general understanding of what the Israeli goals are - to degrade/shift course for Iran enough that it never poses a threat to Israel again.
The focus on trying to understand Trump's goal and plans in Iran - misrepresents the current war as a US-led war with Israel as a key ally, rather than as an Israeli war with the US as a key ally.
The Venezuelan example doesnt work not only because Iran is not Venezuela but critically because US/Israeli goals are very different. In Venezuela - Trump was happy to keep the regime intact so long as the figurehead changed. In Iran, Israel wants to substantially degrade Iranian power.
