If we take a step backwards and look at the United States' general strategic design over the decades, post-WWII, we find it unconcerned with winning or losing its wars. Rather its purpose has been just to keep starting new wars. If that is correct, no amount of calculation would have stopped the US from attacking Iran.

The US has lost half of the wars it has been involved in, in the Cold War era, like in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon and Cuba; while most of the wars it was involved in post-Cold War were utter failures, like in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. In the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the US does not seem to be winning either. Yet, in the face of unfinished wars, and the colossal destructions they are delivering, the US President comes out and says he is weighing a US attack on Iran.

The US has a long playlist of around 200 interventions, post-WWII, in the name of removing dictators, bringing democracy and countering terrorism. There have been similar playbooks in Iraq, Libya and Syria, wherein leadership was decapitated — with the help of sanctions, economic sabotage, internal revolts and western media propaganda. A playbook that brings all-destruction and no-construction, and the nation ceases to exist as a nation guarded by the state, anymore!

But, as yet, this same playbook has been unsuccessful in Iran, though it has been tried many times. The 2009 Iranian Green Movement, aimed at the removal of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is deemed to be a colour revolution orchestrated by the West. Several dissident........

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