Ex-U.S. Ambassador Nails Exactly How Trump Has ‘Already Lost’ Iran War | EUROtoday

A former State Department official has summed up what he described because the “problem” with President Donald Trump’s Iran battle.

Daniel Fried — who served as U.S. ambassador to Poland throughout Bill Clinton’s second time period — advised Bloomberg Radio on Tuesday that he isn’t optimistic about diplomacy prevailing within the battle however didn’t rule out that the U.S. and Iran would “negotiate something” a method or one other.

“But ask yourself, ‘What then?’ If this war becomes about opening the Strait of Hormuz, we’ve already lost because the Strait of Hormuz is only closed because we started the war,” stated Fried of the strait that’s successfully been shut down because the U.S.-Israeli lethal offensive on Iran roughly one month in the past.

“We started the war for the purpose of regime change or obliterating Iran’s military, and we have not succeeded in doing that.”

He proceeded to name out Trump’s “improvising” methods within the Middle East, a nod to the administration’s grab-bag-like method to rationalizing the battle.

“[That’s] another way of saying making it up,” Fried defined. “Starting a war is to enter a dark cave. You never know what you’re going to find. We’re still in that cave.”

Fried pressured that he has “no sympathy” for the Iranian regime, now headed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, following the U.S.-backed assassination of his father final month.

“The question is whether our objectives can be met in a reasonable way that leaves us better off, and that is not clear,” he stated.

“The war was supposed to be quick and easy. My sense of it is that the president gambled that he would attack Iran, decapitate its leadership, there would be a quick rebellion and regime change and he would claim a glorious victory, a bigger version of what he achieved in Venezuela.”

He continued, “Well, if that had happened, he might have bragging rights. But it didn’t happen, that’s the problem.”