'Iran won' after they 'rope-a-doped' Trump: MS NOW analyst
According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.
According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.
Before letting former Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass expound on the long-term implications of the paused war, Barnicle bluntly stated, “Did not Iran, though, just play rope-a-dope with the United States? They won. Iran won.”
“Look, so that's a larger question,” Haass replied, “Are we better off than we were five weeks ago? Absolutely not. Straight question, we'll see what happens with the nuclear, our standing in the world is worse off. Russia's better off. NATO's worse off. We can go around the horn and see who it is — but yeah.”
“And Iran, actually, the regime is stronger than it was. It's military, in the immediate sense, weaker; it's ballistic missiles and all that. But it is stronger politically inside. Our attacks on Persian civilization may have actually helped the regime, because they can stand up and say, we have protected Persian-ness. I also think they're stronger in the region. They have now become much more of a force to be reckoned with and around the world.”
“So Iran, yes, we hurt them in the classic sense, but in the strategic sense, they are, they are much better off. And I would say we are worse off for all of it,” he added.
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