{"id":12917,"date":"2026-05-27T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:02:31","slug":"even-american-war-hawks-now-admit-iran-is-defeating-the-us-and-it-will-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/?p=12917","title":{"rendered":"Even American war hawks now admit Iran is defeating the US \u2013 and it will change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12918 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/65d279aba5a5e09157a5fea996023d3f-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/65d279aba5a5e09157a5fea996023d3f-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/65d279aba5a5e09157a5fea996023d3f-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/65d279aba5a5e09157a5fea996023d3f.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is now widely acknowledged that the United States is losing the war against Iran, which Washington itself started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even some neoconservative hawks \u2014 who were architects of the wars on Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and who for years advocated for an attack on Iran \u2014 have now reluctantly acknowledged that Tehran is winning this war, and that Washington\u2019s loss will have massive geopolitical repercussions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done\u201d, wrote the prominent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/2026\/05\/iran-war-trump-losing\/687094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">neocon Robert Kagan in The Atlantic<\/a>. \u201cWith control of the strait [of Hormuz], Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran\u2019s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US defeat in Iran War will change the world - Now even American hawks admit it!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrlXNHSCfoQ?feature=oembed\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Western media outlets report that the US is losing the war with Iran<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just a few weeks after the United States and Israel launched this war of aggression on 28 February, British newspaper The Independent acknowledged that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/trump-iran-us-peace-plan-war-israel-netanyahu-b2945236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Iran is the clear winner<\/a>, as Trump\u2019s desperate bid for peace shows he wants out of the war\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!0o76!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F717052d0-296d-4995-bf39-9abe2be7b550_1940x838.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!0o76!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F717052d0-296d-4995-bf39-9abe2be7b550_1940x838.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!0o76!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F717052d0-296d-4995-bf39-9abe2be7b550_1940x838.png 1272w, 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style=\"text-align: left;\">In mid-April, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed observing that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/for-now-at-least-the-iran-war-seems-to-be-failing-832a0e60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Iran War seems to be failing<\/a>\u201d. This was written by Gerard Baker, the conservative former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and an erstwhile Trump supporter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!U6Rw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2012030d-59d0-4f4b-89e6-03410d56f0f5_1615x699.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!U6Rw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2012030d-59d0-4f4b-89e6-03410d56f0f5_1615x699.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!U6Rw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2012030d-59d0-4f4b-89e6-03410d56f0f5_1615x699.png 1272w, 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disclosing that the war has been going very badly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The New York Times reported in May, citing US intelligence sources, that Iran still has access to the vast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/iran-missiles-us-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">majority of its missile capabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tehran can still use 30 of its 33 missile sites on the Strait of Hormuz, the world\u2019s most important oil transit chokepoint, through which roughly 20% of globally traded crude passed on a daily basis before the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trump declared a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, to try to choke off Iran\u2019s oil exports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, US intelligence officials acknowledged in an article in the Washington Post that Iran is able to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/05\/07\/cia-intelligence-iran-trump-blockade-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">withstand this US military blockade for many months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Z9uS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3103678d-ef85-45f4-b0f7-d09450766ba6_1087x559.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Z9uS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3103678d-ef85-45f4-b0f7-d09450766ba6_1087x559.png 848w, 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data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3103678d-ef85-45f4-b0f7-d09450766ba6_1087x559.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:559,&quot;width&quot;:1087,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:81850,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.geopoliticaleconomy.report\/i\/198958068?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3103678d-ef85-45f4-b0f7-d09450766ba6_1087x559.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Moreover, US intelligence officials told numerous media outlets \u2014 including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/29\/politics\/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CNN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/iran-caused-extensive-damage-us-military-bases-publicly-known-rcna331853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC News<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/iran-us-bases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New York Times<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/05\/06\/iran-us-bases-satellite-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that Iran has succeeded in destroying or at least heavily damaging the majority of the US military\u2019s bases and other assets in West Asia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the same time, Fortune magazine reported that the US military has been quickly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/u-military-may-already-used-173931040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">using up its stockpile of missiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fortune cited Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Linda Bilmes, who estimated that the US war on Iran will likely cost more than $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!yhrH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe6930b9-e345-49dd-8b3b-9ea9a5482148_1822x774.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!yhrH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe6930b9-e345-49dd-8b3b-9ea9a5482148_1822x774.png 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data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/fe6930b9-e345-49dd-8b3b-9ea9a5482148_1822x774.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:619,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:818799,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.geopoliticaleconomy.report\/i\/198958068?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe6930b9-e345-49dd-8b3b-9ea9a5482148_1822x774.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trump has denied all of this publicly, instead adamantly claiming victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThey\u2019re\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2052113910963003713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">militarily defeated<\/a>. In their own minds, maybe they don\u2019t know that\u201d, Trump said of Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nevertheless, these constant leaks by US intelligence officials, to a multitude of media outlets, tell a very different story. They show that this war is going very badly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Media admits: Iran destroyed US military bases, USA running out of missiles, war costs $1 TRILLION\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_wC4KuEcWI?feature=oembed\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Neoconservative hawks admit Iran is winning the war<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In fact, the war is going so badly that some of the most prominent neoconservative ideologues in the United States have publicly conceded that Iran is winning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was the conclusion of an article published in the pro-war mouthpiece of Atlanticism, The Atlantic. The piece was titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/2026\/05\/iran-war-trump-losing\/687094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Checkmate in Iran<\/a>\u201d, and it bore the subtitle \u201cWashington can\u2019t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!qnEL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e87b1b6-ad29-4f59-a00d-61a2be6a17f4_1171x482.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!qnEL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e87b1b6-ad29-4f59-a00d-61a2be6a17f4_1171x482.png 848w, 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data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/9e87b1b6-ad29-4f59-a00d-61a2be6a17f4_1171x482.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:482,&quot;width&quot;:1171,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:46838,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.geopoliticaleconomy.report\/i\/198958068?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e87b1b6-ad29-4f59-a00d-61a2be6a17f4_1171x482.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The author of this essay was none other than Robert Kagan, perhaps the most influential neoconservative intellectual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kagan was one of the original advocates for the US invasion of Iraq, and he long pushed for a similar war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kagan co-founded the influential think tank the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which was the closest thing that existed to being the Church of Neoconservatism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">PNAC promoted a hyper-aggressive foreign policy. Its neoconservative adherents were proud of the fact that the United States runs a global empire. They believed that the US military should wage war everywhere in order to overthrow independent governments that resisted Washington\u2019s hegemony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Founding members of PNAC included several top officials in the George W. Bush administration, such as Dick Cheney (vice president) and Paul Wolfowitz (deputy secretary of defense and former president of the World Bank).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Another founding signatory of the PNAC statement of principles was John Bolton, a hard-line hawk who served in the Bush administration and was brought back by Donald Trump, in his first administration, to serve as national security advisor (and to oversee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2022\/07\/12\/trump-john-bolton-coups-venezuela\/\">Washington\u2019s coup attempt in Venezuela<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15623 lazy entered loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=880%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?w=2109&amp;ssl=1 2109w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=1024%2C749&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=768%2C562&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=1536%2C1123&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=2048%2C1497&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?w=1760&amp;ssl=1 1760w\" alt=\"PNAC signatories support Trump\" width=\"880\" height=\"643\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=880%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?w=2109&amp;ssl=1 2109w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=1024%2C749&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=768%2C562&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=1536%2C1123&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?resize=2048%2C1497&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PNAC-signatories-support-Trump.png?w=1760&amp;ssl=1 1760w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the 2016 election, the original alliance of PNAC neoconservatives split. About half supported Trump, while the rest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/07\/25\/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">backed Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kagan was among the prominent neocons who became a \u201cnever Trump\u201d Republican.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kagan is also married to another influential neocon, Victoria Nuland, who served as US ambassador to NATO in the George W. Bush administration and later filled top roles in the State Department under Barack Obama and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Nuland was deeply involved<\/a>\u00a0in the coup in Ukraine in 2014, which set off a proxy war that has dragged on for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Given all of this context, one can see how incredible it is to read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/2026\/05\/iran-war-trump-losing\/687094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kagan\u2019s article in The Atlantic<\/a>, admitting that Iran is defeating the United States. It is kind of like the Pope coming out and saying he was wrong and will convert to Islam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kagan is one of the most staunchly pro-war voices in US politics. This is why the following passage that he wrote is especially significant (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character<\/strong>\u00a0[compared to the US loss in the wars in Vietnam Afghanistan].\u00a0<strong>It can neither be repaired nor ignored.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>There will be no return to the status quo ante<\/strong>, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be \u201copen,\u201d as it once was.\u00a0<strong>With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>The roles of China and Russia, as Iran\u2019s allies, are strengthened<\/strong>;\u00a0<strong>the role of the United States, substantially diminished<\/strong>. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed,\u00a0<strong>the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started<\/strong>. That is going to set off a chain reaction around the world as friends and foes adjust to America\u2019s failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Moreover, Kagan is not the only prominent neocon who has come to this conclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The other co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, Bill Kristol, has reluctantly acknowledged the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kristol is an editor of the neoconservative website The Bulwark, where he lamented that the United States has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XHO7uwbXE0Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201chumiliated\u201d by Trump\u2019s failed war<\/a>\u00a0against Iran.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">US war against Iran is extremely unpopular among Americans<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What explains the sudden opposition of these notorious neoconservative hawks, who spent decades pushing for war on Iran?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They can apparently see the writing on the wall. The war has gone horribly, and it is extremely unpopular at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/polls\/president-trump-while-at-war-may-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">60% of Americans oppose<\/a>\u00a0Trump\u2019s handling of the war on Iran, while just 33% support it, according to a May survey published by NPR, PBS News, and Marist Poll.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!0AUu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F02c16694-ac0d-4c9a-9fd5-a1ef4e92b1e7_972x1237.png 424w, 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