I should add a last thought: possibly the biggest cause for joy is how this whole affair has so utterly shown the US to be a naked emperor. Even if not defeated on the battlefield, their invincible image has crumbled. They've shown they can be bloodied.
Then you have the moral front. They are squandering decades of soft power in mere weeks. Through this incredibly unpopular, painfully forced war, large numbers of people are waking up. Other than the deranged and demon-posessed Iranian diaspora, who is cheering this on? Senseless death and destruction for nothing.
Then you have the moral front. They are squandering decades of soft power in mere weeks. Through this incredibly unpopular, painfully forced war, large numbers of people are waking up. Other than the deranged and demon-posessed Iranian diaspora, who is cheering this on? Senseless death and destruction for nothing.