The Atlantic: Trump lost war with Iran

⭕ Atlantic: Trump Lost the War with Iran; Initiative Now in Tehran's Hands

Tom Nichols, senior writer for The Atlantic and retired professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College with 25 years of teaching experience at the institution, examined recent developments in the Iran-U.S. conflict in an article for The Atlantic. He reported on Washington's diminished capacity to manage the confrontation and the transfer of initiative to Tehran, writing: If Donald Trump ever had control over the war he himself started with Iran, he has now lost that control. It is now the Iranians who are determining the conditions of this confrontation and regularly humiliating the American president. The "ceasefire" that Trump announced last month never actually existed in reality; because neither side ever stopped firing. Powerful leaders keep their thoughts and decisions to themselves and allow their actions to speak for them instead; weak leaders make threats and then loudly announce how unwilling they are to follow through on those threats. / Jamaran