The US blundered into an unnecessary war. Without a rationale and out of some unexplained compulsion, stories have emerged how Trump made the decision on the spur. Iran-Israel war got more intense with greatly more lethal longer-range weapons joining the fracas. Israel and its people bore the brunt. Russia-Ukraine war goes on relentlessly. Israel's Gaza expedition has gained even greater intensity to balance the negative perception of Israel being bombed from the skies and half of Israeli population forced to live in shelters than the comfort of their homes.

India and Pakistan are in a kinetic pause. Houthis are well and alive, and the Red Sea is still their backyard. The Persian Gulf freeway is on tenterhooks while escalating oil prices can detract any plans anywhere of a rebounded economic outlook. US allies in the Gulf, where American forces are stationed — those nations have successfully negotiated a space for themselves to live in relative safety and comfort — were quite unnecessarily sucked into a war which could only bring even greater pain to a large swathe, and possibly most of Asia. What has the world, or America, gained by President Trump's action of entering the war with Israel against Iran?

No one knows how deep did the MOP GBU-57 penetrate. No one knows if Fordow still exists as a viable enrichment facility. It may still be safe, if not functional. At least part of it. It is possible that enriched fissile material may have already been moved somewhere. It is possible that Iran will recover the site or its infrastructure and reconstitute it at another location in another time and commence its journey to wherever it was heading.

The B-2s may have flown a flawless mission and all components of this mission........

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