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Former NATO guy discovers binary thinking, declares war unwinnable to Twitter

A self-important military analyst performs the ancient ritual of "saying the quiet part out loud" about an Iran situation that apparently has no good options, just catastrophe or theatre. The whole thing reads like someone who watched a few documentaries about asymmetric warfare and now understands geopolitics better than everyone in DC combined. It's the kind of post that makes you feel smarter for reading it while actually just being midwit doom-scrolling with a military fetish.