"Our war aim is to return to the status quo ante we ourselves destroyed"

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Arnaud Bertrand

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"Our war aim is to return to the status quo ante we ourselves destroyed" is one of the clearest admissions of strategic failure you can get from a sitting Secretary of State. Basically the equivalent of saying "yup, we fucked up."

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Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to restore it "back to the way it was" before Trump started the war in Iran

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