#defeat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #defeat, aggregated by home.social.
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“Never before has a war of this nature been fought by the United States, where it loses in every category, with the conflict being fought solely for the purpose of fulfilling the expansionist desires of a foreign rogue regime. Donald Trump is not Jimmy Carter or George Bush Jr.; he will be remembered as the president who launched an offensive war of aggression on behalf of a genocidal regime that couldn’t care less how the US and the rest of the world are impacted, as long as they continue to get propped up to forward their goals of creating a regional empire premised on a supremacist ideology”
- quoting Robert Inlakesh in Al-Mayadeen English
“The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat”
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“Never before has a war of this nature been fought by the United States, where it loses in every category, with the conflict being fought solely for the purpose of fulfilling the expansionist desires of a foreign rogue regime. Donald Trump is not Jimmy Carter or George Bush Jr.; he will be remembered as the president who launched an offensive war of aggression on behalf of a genocidal regime that couldn’t care less how the US and the rest of the world are impacted, as long as they continue to get propped up to forward their goals of creating a regional empire premised on a supremacist ideology”
- quoting Robert Inlakesh in Al-Mayadeen English
“The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat”
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“The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat”
by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English
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@palestinenews“Never before has a war of this nature been fought by the United States, where it loses in every category, with the conflict being fought solely for the purpose of fulfilling the expansionist desires of a foreign rogue regime”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Defeat #RogueState
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“The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat”
by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews“Never before has a war of this nature been fought by the United States, where it loses in every category, with the conflict being fought solely for the purpose of fulfilling the expansionist desires of a foreign rogue regime”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Defeat #RogueState
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Who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?
"As things currently stand, Iran sets the terms of risk while the United States retains the capacity to set the terms of consequence. Importantly, these are not the same thing."By Emma Salisbury: https://theins.press/en/opinion/salisbury/295228
#defeat #sanctions #warOnIran #IranWar #Iran #Hormuz #tollbooth #oilAndGas #stateViolence #war
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#AIPAC LOVING #Beagle ABUSING #Congressman On VERGE OF #DEFEAT #BreakingPoints #yt https://youtu.be/QaoIWi9_fGY
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#AIPAC LOVING #Beagle ABUSING #Congressman On VERGE OF #DEFEAT #BreakingPoints #yt https://youtu.be/QaoIWi9_fGY
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"The MOU signed between the US and Iran imposes the victor’s terms. Iran got all its asks, some of which would’ve been unthinkable until recently.
"The US has promised to get Israel to cease its attacks on Hezbollah immediately. The US has accepted joint Iranian-Omani administration of Hormuz, including a de facto tollbooth. Remarkably, the US has committed to withdrawing its forces from Iran’s proximity once a final deal is reached."To read about how much Iranian GDP could boom, you would have to subscribe: https://policytensor.substack.com/p/a-world-historic-opportunity-for
#defeat #sanctions #warOnIran #IranWar #Iran #Hormuz #tollbooth #MOU #JDVance #USWars #fossilFuels #oilAndGas
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"The MOU signed between the US and Iran imposes the victor’s terms. Iran got all its asks, some of which would’ve been unthinkable until recently.
"The US has promised to get Israel to cease its attacks on Hezbollah immediately. The US has accepted joint Iranian-Omani administration of Hormuz, including a de facto tollbooth. Remarkably, the US has committed to withdrawing its forces from Iran’s proximity once a final deal is reached."To read about how much Iranian GDP could boom, you would have to subscribe: https://policytensor.substack.com/p/a-world-historic-opportunity-for
#defeat #sanctions #warOnIran #IranWar #Iran #Hormuz #tollbooth #MOU #JDVance #USWars #fossilFuels #oilAndGas
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"Since February 2022, we've actually spent more money buying fossil fuels from Russia in the EU than we've given in aid to Ukraine."
Promises: https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-set-plans-halt-russian-040545805.html
#sanctions #LoomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #Ukraine #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #diplomacy #oilAndGas #energy #fossilFuels #UvDL
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There are three things one must not do in the face of electoral disaster. Whine. Despair. Or fall for that specious old radical crap: “Things have to get worse before they can get better.” The only possible response to that one is, “Not with my child’s life.”
Nor is it helpful to sit around hoping that given enough rope, the R’s will hang themselves. They’ll hang us along with them. The only thing to do is to fight harder and smarter.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2002-12-01) “Fight Harder and Smarter,” The Progressive MagazineMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #fightingback #smarts #defeat #despair #election #fightingback #losing #persistence #persisting #struggle #struggling #whining
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There are three things one must not do in the face of electoral disaster. Whine. Despair. Or fall for that specious old radical crap: “Things have to get worse before they can get better.” The only possible response to that one is, “Not with my child’s life.”
Nor is it helpful to sit around hoping that given enough rope, the R’s will hang themselves. They’ll hang us along with them. The only thing to do is to fight harder and smarter.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2002-12-01) “Fight Harder and Smarter,” The Progressive MagazineMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #fightingback #smarts #defeat #despair #election #fightingback #losing #persistence #persisting #struggle #struggling #whining
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View from Iran
"Qalibaf: Islamabad MoU became declaration of US #defeat "
#USdefeat #NACHO #TACO #Trump #China #Ukraine #News #Politics #Nato #War #ww3 #Military #Russia #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #Iran #Israel #Pakistan #Alliance #Asia
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/24/771007/Qalibaf--Islamabad-MoU-declaration-US-defeat
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#defeat : to win a victory over
- French: défaite
- Italian: sconfitta
- Portuguese: derrota
- Spanish: derrota
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"We are in some serious shit" says analyst, but Wall St is booming for now. This history probably becomes real with the sounds of a #bubble popping, that is how #degenerate the #USA has become. If only anyone could have predicted, back in March, that #Trump would #taco and give #Iran a #Tollbooth franchise. And force other nations to cover the war reparations that Iran would demand. And that the U.S. would declare victory. Welp, see pinned. #defeat #persiangulf
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"We are in some serious shit" says analyst, but Wall St is booming for now. This history probably becomes real with the sounds of a #bubble popping, that is how #degenerate the #USA has become. If only anyone could have predicted, back in March, that #Trump would #taco and give #Iran a #Tollbooth franchise. And force other nations to cover the war reparations that Iran would demand. And that the U.S. would declare victory. Welp, see pinned. #defeat #persiangulf
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Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mom who has dedicated her career to fighting for a brighter future for all children. #SouthCarolina #defeat #LindseyGraham! # drannieandrews.com
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The United States of America has suffered yet another ignominious defeat in the Middle East.
Just like a naughty child, the US keeps poking the wasp hive. Stop it. Get some help.
#US #America #Defeat #Iran #Stop #War #GetHelp #Tyranny #Autocracy #Dictatorship #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #MiddleEast #CrimesAgainstHumanity
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The United States of America has suffered yet another ignominious defeat in the Middle East.
Just like a naughty child, the US keeps poking the wasp hive. Stop it. Get some help.
#US #America #Defeat #Iran #Stop #War #GetHelp #Tyranny #Autocracy #Dictatorship #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #MiddleEast #CrimesAgainstHumanity
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Make America Lose Again 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
#US #Iran #War #Defeat #MakeAmericaLoseAgain #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DirtyPoliticians #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Make America Lose Again 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
#US #Iran #War #Defeat #MakeAmericaLoseAgain #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #CrimesAgainstHumanity #DirtyPoliticians #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Inspirational Poster
Godzilla says "eeeaaaaagggggghhhh!!!!*"
*"never give up!"
which, you know, definitely applies to some cartooning around here**
**me, I'm referring solely to myself, no offense to anyone else
#kaijune2026 #kaijune #defeat #inspiration #whk #art #comic #cartoon
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#Trump #War Is Staggering to an Incoherent #Defeat. Even the president’s supporters are alarmed. Not only is Trump incoherently staggering to defeat, he now risks signing on to an agreement that could be far worse than anything #Obama negotiated with Iran a decade ago. #war #middleeast #israel #UAE #diplomacy #congress #law #StraitOfHormuz #oil #supplychain #economics #trade The Atlantic Free Article https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-iran-war/687292/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pPpwY_-0MKrijL7uJ1vvYP0
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#Trump #War Is Staggering to an Incoherent #Defeat. Even the president’s supporters are alarmed. Not only is Trump incoherently staggering to defeat, he now risks signing on to an agreement that could be far worse than anything #Obama negotiated with Iran a decade ago. #war #middleeast #israel #UAE #diplomacy #congress #law #StraitOfHormuz #oil #supplychain #economics #trade The Atlantic Free Article https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-iran-war/687292/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pPpwY_-0MKrijL7uJ1vvYP0
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Destruction of Ambition: A Bridge Too Far
Ambition will survive assault...https://simplebender.com/2026/05/16/destruction-of-ambition-a-bridge-too-far/
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The global adjustment to a post-American world is accelerating. America’s once-dominant position in the Gulf is just the first of many casualties.
@TheAtlantic #US #Iran #Defeat
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/?gift=2b8c9ULCN1FUpJlicrzPBkbxhYhVqfvU0HW0chbHRs0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share -
The global adjustment to a post-American world is accelerating. America’s once-dominant position in the Gulf is just the first of many casualties.
@TheAtlantic #US #Iran #Defeat
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/?gift=2b8c9ULCN1FUpJlicrzPBkbxhYhVqfvU0HW0chbHRs0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share -
“You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove
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Is the Iran War the Greatest Strategic Defeat in American History?
There’s a new poll out today showing that “Trump’s war in Iran” — and it is his war, let’s make no mistake about that — “is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.”
I am not much of a poll tracker. But the Washington Post story about this new polling caught my eye, not only because I’ve been watching Emile de Antonio’s excellent 1968 Vietnam War film In the Year of the Pig on the Criterion Channel, but also because I keep running into statements like this one, from Paul Krugman’s Substack (30 April 2026):
Trump’s ego is so fragile that he can never admit losing. He cannot bear to face up to the reality that he, more or less single-handedly, led America to the greatest strategic defeat in its history. So he desperately wants to extract concessions from Iran that would lend him a fig leaf and allow him to claim victory.
Krugman is right about Trump’s “fragile ego,” but surely he needs to be more measured when it comes to what counts as the greatest strategic defeat in American history. He’s not alone. Mitchell Plitnick dedicated a whole podcast to the idea in early April. And this isn’t just a slip of Krugman’s pen. A few paragraphs later, he doubles down: “America,” he writes, “will have suffered its worst strategic defeat in history as a result of a completely gratuitous misadventure to please Trump’s ego.”
The American war in Iran might count as the quickest strategic defeat in our history, and I’m not going to deny that it’s already having and will continue to have serious geopolitical consequences. (I found the HC Commodities podcast interview with Doomberg clarifying on this point). But I have a hard time seeing how this war should count as a greater or worse and more humiliating strategic defeat or a more costly blunder (strictly in terms of blood and treasure) than Vietnam.**
At the end of his podcast, Plitnick hedges on this point:
It is about as great a strategic disaster as you can imagine. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, I mean they all pale before how stupid this was, despite the fact that they went on for years and years and year, and cost more in terms of lives and more in terms of money, because they went on so long. And that should not be minimized and in no way am I trying to minimize that. But when we talk about a strategic loss, about a strategic disaster, this is the biggest one in US history, and it was all for nothing, all for nothing.
What I take from this is that the war in Iran should count as the biggest or the greatest strategic defeat in American history because it may turn out to be the stupidest strategic defeat in American history.
There is no getting around the stupidity and recklessness and pointlessness of it all.
But I still balk at this application of the superlative to Trump’s Iran disaster. Is Krugman really asking us to start from the founding and work our way forward, ranking strategic defeats*? No, he appears just to be riffing. He never bothers to argue the historical point, never even mentions Vietnam or other examples.
Superlatives may make good clickbait, but they can also be very slippery: in just the two examples I’ve cited here, greatest can mean quickest or it can mean stupidest or maybe it can even mean most consequential. That’s unclear. Superlatives tend to muddle thinking about history, where clarity counts.
Talking about Iran as the greatest or the biggest strategic defeat in American history may score some political points, or drive some online traffic. But in this case hyperbole carries a cost. It distorts both past and present, and it can dampen political will (signaling that there is no recovering from this greatest of all defeats) or exacerbate the historical amnesia from which too many Americans already seem to suffer.
And it’s still early days, too early to judge. Trump’s war in Iran is only two months old, and the American public already appears to be decisively against it. It wasn’t until after the Tet Offensive in 1968, a full four years after the Gulf of Tonkin debacle, that public disapproval of the Vietnam War began to reach these levels, as this chart (made from the same Gallup data used by the Washington Post) shows:
That comparison all by itself is a pretty damning indictment of Trump’s war. And maybe that means a good number of Americans — not all of us, but some of us — have learned a little something from history after all.
N.B. 2 May 2026: In a conversation with Greg Sargent on The Daily Blast podcast (and published on Krugman’s Substack blog today), Krugman backs away from the superlative:
The celebration of a guy who is an absolute disaster at presidenting—he has led, more or less single-handedly, on his own decisions, his own faith, his own judgment, he has led America into one of our worst strategic defeats in our history. He took on this relatively small military power in Iran, figuring that he could destroy the regime and install his people in a few days, and he lost the war.
*PS 10 May 2026: Robert Kagan comes close to doing just that in the opening paragraphs of his new piece in The Atlantic. Though he never reaches for the hyperbole, he argues that the defeat in Iran is in a class all by itself and of tremendous historical import, a signal event in the unraveling of the American-led postwar order.
Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character [than in every other American war Kagan lists]. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done….the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America’s failure.
**Another postscript, 18 June 2026. I still balk at the superlative, but Paul Musgrave’s piece at Foreign Policy did a lot to change my mind on the comparison with Vietnam. And the MOU signed at Versailles yesterday only bolsters his argument.
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@JugglingWithEggs They are truly disgusting - the lot of them - & they are NOT #Labour! They are the reason the #LabourParty will be hurled out of office at the next #General #Election, & will richly deserve their #defeat, a defeat that neither the #Tories nor #ReformUK will profit from.
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@JugglingWithEggs They are truly disgusting - the lot of them - & they are NOT #Labour! They are the reason the #LabourParty will be hurled out of office at the next #General #Election, & will richly deserve their #defeat, a defeat that neither the #Tories nor #ReformUK will profit from.
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“Netanyahu’s 'total victory' to total flop”
by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“Promising annihilation, dominance, and total victory, the Israeli leadership has found itself in a predicament no closer to victory on any front. Tactical victories sold as strategic ones have been exposed; instead of meticulously planned operations, Tel Aviv engages in aggression without any discernible long-term strategy to achieve its stated aims”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/netanyahu-s--total-victory--to-total-flop
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #DismantleZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Netanyahu #Flop #AlAqsaFlood #Yemen #AnsarAllah #Syria #Turkey #Defeat
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“Netanyahu’s 'total victory' to total flop”
by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“Promising annihilation, dominance, and total victory, the Israeli leadership has found itself in a predicament no closer to victory on any front. Tactical victories sold as strategic ones have been exposed; instead of meticulously planned operations, Tel Aviv engages in aggression without any discernible long-term strategy to achieve its stated aims”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/netanyahu-s--total-victory--to-total-flop
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #DismantleZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Netanyahu #Flop #AlAqsaFlood #Yemen #AnsarAllah #Syria #Turkey #Defeat
