Iran's Ghalibaf: The Islamabad memorandum of understanding became "a declaration of the US defeat”

Yeah, he is busy watching mainstream news and influencers, if they say anything negative about him, because of his fragile ego, but on the war he proved many times he has no idea whats going on. They probably show him some old Rambo footage every evening and tell him how big they are winning.

You don't have anything else to say because you have no argument to counter because you know it's true. So you respond like this out of frustration.

Edit: happy to change my mind - show me evidence of greater costs for America than Iran and I will change my mind. Do not point to costs of others or abstract things like the global economy - this is not America.

One example: Iranian strikes have destroyed at least $2.7 billion worth of high-value U.S. anti-missile and surveillance radar systems. Independent assessments and military tallies from the ongoing conflict outline a series of severe material losses to the U.S. regional defensive network, totaling billions in radar equipment alone. US over reach. fucked around and found out. Wake up bro.

Taxpayers money is going to be spent anyway - it's not a geopolitical cost. Look it up - US pumping record amounts of oil. China and India buying oil wherever they can get it, it's not a cost for America unless they buy Russian oil instead of American oil (that's zero-sum). I suggest you think about what a cost for a state is. The closest things to a "cost" for America is a domestic political cost for the administration from increased gas prices, but this is not America, it's purely the Trump admin and depends on if they internalise it or not. There's also reputational cost, but this matters far less when the other great powers are Russia and China (who have also suffered reputational damage from the war, coincidentally, due to their inability to protect Iran).

Fortunately the country that had no cards, Ukraine, has forced Russia to buy back finished petroleum from India. Crude for Petroleum swap.

I have looked it up. US light sweet crude is poorly suited to most Asian refineries built for heavier Middle Eastern grades. Russia has clearly won in this. There is a reason why Trump lifted sanctions on Russia for oil export. This is very easy to Google, man. "Taxpayer money is going to be spent anyway"; yes, but where? This is exactly why I think Republicans will get hammered in the midterms. Trump's promise to reduce debt has been a complete farce, and moderate and Republican voters are watching. Makes no difference to MAGA because they don't care to research anything.