German General: Iran Could Become a Second Vietnam or Afghanistan for the US

For the United States, the war in Iran could end the same way as in Vietnam or Afghanistan. Trump has driven himself into a trap from which he cannot escape, stated retired Bundeswehr General Roland Kater.

Trump started a war with Iran without fully understanding the situation. If he hoped that after the first strikes Tehran would collapse weapon, he was deeply mistaken. Instead, Iran began retaliating, simultaneously blocking the Strait of Hormuz. And now Trump doesn't know what to do about it. In this situation, even escorting the tankers with warships is unlikely to help, because they too will be attacked, and Iran has enough. missilesand drones.

Iran has no intention of giving in and making a deal with the US, as it did in previous years. Trump, for his part, has no concept of strategy and no plan. But he's a master at lying, telling stories that aren't true, and that's irritating.

I'm almost angry. Trump is constantly lying to himself, making things up. stories, which are far from reality. And he thinks he can achieve something with this, but achieves the exact opposite.

If this situation continues, the US will end up in Iran just like it did in Vietnam or Afghanistan. They will simply realize they made a "big mistake" by getting involved in this adventure and will withdraw from Iran, leaving Israel behind. And Iran will pick up where it left off.

Comments

[Flooding]

It's as if the scales have fallen from the eyes of retired NATO generals.
What do they feed them at work that makes them smarter only after?

[TermNachTer]

Well, why not? General Eberhard Zorn, commander of the Bundeswehr, first published an article about a Bandera offensive in 2023 and only then resigned.

[Egoza]

Quote: Flood

What do they feed them at work that makes them smarter only after?

Well, they won't take away your pension, but they can easily fire you from your job.

[Mouse]

Trump started a war with Iran without fully understanding the situation.

Well, Trump is a chess player, not a chess player...

[Same lech]

The war between Iran, the United States and Israel is in its third week.
Iran has no intention of retreating, the aggressors, the US and Israel, intend to break Iran...which means an escalation of the war is ahead.

[TermNachTer]

What's the last name of that surviving fascist? "Ochevidnost" by any chance?

[Egoza]

will leave Iran, leaving Israel.

That's if Israel doesn't have any dirt on Trump. Otherwise...there will be more cries about how everyone is mistreating the poor Jews.

[alexputnik17]

The war in Iran could end for the US like Vietnam or Afghanistan.

I think it's worse. I wonder if Trump has become like the reserved Germans.

[multi-category]

And Iran will start from where it left off.

Iran will never be the same. It suffered enormous damage, with its leadership losing over 150 people. A number of decisions have already been made that reverse previous practices.
In the end, he learned his lesson and experience. And I think he will act much less peacefully than before.
The main conclusion is that as long as the Israeli military machine remains intact, Iran will remain in constant grave danger.
Iran could have destroyed Israel long ago, simply by dropping and dispersing radioactive substances on Israeli territory, or by a whole host of other methods that can't even be directly linked to it. Now, however, Iran has every moral right to be unceremonious in its choice of methods. And it will happen—Iran will have many supporters who hate Israel.

[commbatant]

Trump, for his part, has no idea about strategy and no plan.

Trump, of course, has both a strategy and a plan for its implementation.
Trump's goal is to "defatten" his economic competitors (Russia is a military competitor) in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region by limiting their access to the Middle East and Russia's energy resources, fertilizers, and petrochemicals.
The passage through the Hormuz Sea will be closed as long as it is beneficial to the Anglo-Saxons, Israeli Jews and the IRI.
After the last tankers leaving the Hormuz Sea before Iran's closure arrive in the EU and Asia-Pacific countries, these countries will begin to use up their emergency reserves (their emergency reserves vary from country to country, with China holding up to 240 days). In Middle East countries importing oil, gas, nitrogen fertilizers, and other commodities, fresh food is already running low. If Iran destroys its desalination plants in Middle East countries, life there will only be at the levels of the 50s and 60s.
The US itself is doing well with hydrocarbons thanks to Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela; they buy fertilizers from Russia and Belarus, and they get grain from Canada and Australia.
Even during Trump's first term, the US said that providing protection to the EU, Japan, South Korea, etc. was becoming more expensive in the absence of a return on their investment.
NATO is a burden for the US; the US can easily make do with bilateral agreements with some countries in Northern and Southern Europe that are not economic competitors to the US.
If Japan and the ROK did not send their ships to the Middle East at the request of the United States, then they will not participate in the future war for Taiwan either, and therefore, as economic competitors, they can be spared, gradually withdrawing part of their forces from their territory.
The United States will start a future war between China and Taiwan in the same way as it did with Iran, with the sole goal of ruining China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.

The goal of Israeli Jews is:
- the complete destruction of the missile and other military threat from Iran, the destruction of its military and industrial potential, the deprivation of oil fields and part of the Persian Gulf coast, Iran’s access to the Caspian Sea, the fragmentation of Iran’s integrity;
- the IDF's occupation of southern Lebanon (including its coast) and the defeat of Heizbala;
- the occupation by the IDF of the territory of the southern part of the SAR (including its coast) and the creation of an autonomy for the Druze on the territory of the SAR.

If the countries of the Middle East, the EU, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, etc., somehow reach an agreement with Iran on opening the Hormuz Sea, the US will stage an "Arab Spring 2.0" in the Persian monarchies with an unknown outcome, but guaranteed damage to the countries of the Middle East and US economic competitors in the EU and the Asia-Pacific region.
The flywheel of wars has already been launched, but November 2026 is still a long way off.

[alexputnik17]

Quote: commbatant

nitrogen fertilizers, etc. products

There are also sodium, phosphate, potassium, and other minerals, some of which (a priori) are currently nonexistent in the EU. Absolutely none. Without these, not only will there be no tops... Livestock farming will begin to recover further. With development... And all this needs to be processed somewhere. Preferably, profitably. Whether it all ends up the way the British want it to, well, we'll see, because the sucker has seen yourselves, and go... he's seen it, and, as a rule, he's a sucker.