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22. This is instructive, but the bigger reason Iran appears to be coming out of this OK

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Tue Jun 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

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is that:

1) They have been preparing for this possibility for many decades now and had a brilliant asymmetric defense utilizing their geography to their advantage in many ways.

2) Because of this they were able to stand off the US's overwhelming military power.

3) But, along with that ... from day one they never backed down to him.

To this point here in the US everyone has either fully or partially rolled over to him. And, our allies at first indulged him. Their positions have improved once they resigned themselves that he is incapable of being a honest partner and they stopped indulging him and started to decouple from the US.

Iran is the first country / entity that was truly prepared and had the right mentality to deal with him.

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