Same thing in Iran.

Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russians-are-waking-up-to-the-economic-catastrophe-of-putin-s-war/ar-AA23HeSQ?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6a0ee9b7fac44ccf99074dc7d5c29924&ei=15

There are only 2 ways to shorten the war.

1) Give up. This is the strategy desired by Iran and by the Democrats.

2) Escalate the attacks until the regime falls.

(no message)

This is why they have zero concern for the suffering of their own people.

In their minds they can never compromise on their ultimate goals... because these are Allah's.

From day one the only objective for our operation had to be regime extinction.

Trump's flinching has been a waste of time.

And it allows the regime time to repress any internal resistance.

Before beginning he should have positioned resources to support armed opposition by Iranians.

Hopefully we are doing so now.

We think of wars in terms of 4 years, or 2 years. In the case of our enemies (Islamists and Communists), we should be thinking in terms of 100 years.

It is hard for a democracy to think in the long term, though, being controlled by election cycles (in our case, 2 or 4 years). Worse, our companies think in terms of quarterly reporting to Wall Street. This puts us at a significant disadvantage when the PRC governments and its companies think in terms of decades, and the Islamists think in terms of multiple generations or even eternal time frames.

After 9/11, the Pentagon started calling the war against Islamists "The Long War," as strategists figured it would be a multi-generational fight. That was quickly shut down, though, since democratically elected governments can't think like that and stay in power, especially when one of the two parties (i.e., the Democrats) sees international conflict primarily in terms of domestic political power importance.