To me, this looks something very close to "winning." Which isn't much of a surprise. The United States has never been very good at winning wars against those who can defend themselves. Of course, Iran cannot survive a total war with the United States. But a total war would also be too costly for the United States and the global economy, making such a scenario more difficult to pursue.
Worse yet, the Americans are led by a guy who thinks with his ego first, then his wallet, then all other considerations later. He seems to be withholding resupply shipments of interceptor munitions to “get a better deal” from the same allies who wouldn’t have been attacked if they had not participated with the US in this optional war.
The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
Maybe they watched Team America.
This isn't difficult to do with someone like Trump in power. They aren't shouting "Death to America" because they don't have to. They can easily position Trump as an enemy of the people, just as American's have done to the Ayatollah in the past.
In the West, I have always felt, we were in support of the Iranian people, but not the leadership which barely represented them. Now in the US, you have a similar dichotomy.
I don't think anyone in the west is hoping for a stronger Iran, but we're also not wishing for a stronger America.
Note: I'm Canadian, but have lived in the US and have much of my family in the US
Who are “we”? No countries has done more harm to the Iranian people than the USA and the UK.
USA and UK literally toppled their democratic government and installed a brutal regime so well connected business interests could steal the Iranian people’s oil.
> , the videos play up criticisms of Mr Trump that resonate with a global audience.
The article could have talked all about the meme war and how successful Iranian is at it without first aggrandizing the US and villianizing Iran.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/grotesque-priorities-...
"One joyless theocracy produces wittier videos than another joyless theocracy" would have laid bare the comparison, I guess.
But this isn't terribly surprising. One of the pillars of the Trump regime is people having grown tired of cloying propaganda that aims to live up to positive ideals (perhaps even earnestly), but then falls terribly short. It's been replaced with some sort of empathizing with the emotional struggles of an entitled dictatorial simpleton, not even claiming to do anything for any type of good reason, but rather just lashing out to exert some kind of mark on a world they don't understand. So traditionally-effective lofty-ideal propaganda just isn't in their wheelhouse.
If there had been some attempt to manufacture a casus belli in that context, then perhaps more Americans would look at the current war and end up identifying with the "totally unforeseeable" struggles of our local regime. But instead without feeling a need for any of this to have happened, we just see utter incompetence, graft, a puppet of Netanyahu, a distraction from the Epstein files (the likely reason for being a puppet), and so on.
It's interesting that he's finally gone to a place where the joyless theocrats aren't following. They're still happy that he's bombing The Adversary to bring about the Kingdom of Heaven, but they know he's not succeeding and it looks like God isn't helping. Meantime, the atheist money-worshippers don't like wasting money and prestige.
He needed a big win to offset the fact that his economic program isn't working. Up until now his supporters have always found excuses, but for once they're floundering.
Obviously his opponents hate it, and he should have been able to use that. It should be easy to accuse Democrats of loving Iran; he's been accusing Democrats of loving Muslims since forever.
As for whether the wheels are actually coming off the cart now or merely different dissent is being highlighted, I'm not going to get my hopes up. I've seen too much ignorant blind "but Republicans are better for $ISSUE" to think that reality is going to have a significant effect. I saw a comment here a week back or so describing the American body politic as thoroughly unserious, and it strongly resonated with me. (It applies pretty damn well to much of the errant groupthink of the blue tribe as well)
