As of March 9th, the Iranian air force and navy have been destroyed, along with thousands of high-value targets, includingIranian command centers, air-defense systems, missile-production facilities, launch platforms, and airfields across the country.
Oil refineries and nuclear-related facilities have also been struck, including unconfirmed reports of hits on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran headquarters in Tehran, the explosive-research facility at Parchin, and additional strikes at the Isfahan nuclear complex.
Ayatollah Khamenei was killed, and state media now confirm that his replacement, his sonMojtaba Khamenei, has been wounded. Iran’s oil refineries are on fire, and the regime can neither earn money by exporting oil nor import daily necessities.
Online anti-American propaganda claims that the US is losing, although only six US servicemen and women have been killed so far, and no US ships or planes have been destroyed.
Other claims suggest that Iran is preparing to release some sort of miracle offensive that will change the trajectory of the war, but that also seems implausible. Any significant response Iran has at its disposal would likely have been launched immediately after the ayatollah was killed.
Additional propaganda resurfacing online includes claims, largely from Chinese, Iranian, and anti-American accounts, that America has not won a war in 80 years.
The only grain of truth in that statement is that the US has not declared war in 80 years, so technically one cannot win a war if no war exists. However, the implication is that the US cannot defeat Iran, which is of course counterfactual, since the US is currently defeating Iran.
Furthermore, while it is true that the United States has not formally declared war in that time, it has decimated every country it has fought against, and none of them were able to inflict much damage on the US.
Additionally, although postwar statecraft has often failed, the military objectives were achieved in almost every instance.
Below is a list of U.S. military conflicts since the end of World War II. It includes casualty numbers, data on damage to local versus U.S. infrastructure, the original military objectives, and whether those objectives were achieved.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
