The attack on the Ain Al-Asad U.S. base was bigger than its mere property damage, even if it did not injure any human personnel. That is how important this strike was, that the physical damage it did is not the hill we should be looking at when there is a bigger mountain sitting behind it.

Because for the first time in a long time, it showed the United States army is not as invincible as it thought it was. It shows that a country like Iran, whom they spent decades destabilising and then manufacturing consent against is capable of hitting the Americans where they think they are safe. That the “regime” Washington wants to puppet so bad will not go down as easily as they thought. And if Iran will not go down, who else will not? Who else is capable of stopping the lion?

“History shows there are no invincible armies and there never have been” said Stalin. We see the US Empire crumbling and we are very lucky to be living through it. For those of us who were old enough at the time, remember in the 90s and early 2000s when it seemed like nothing could chip away at the Empire. When they went into Iraq on a whim after barely months of deliberation and almost got the UN in on it too. When less than three years later, they captured the President and installed their own American regime. How their aircraft carriers were used as a symbol of Amerikan hegemony, those huge buildings out in the sea, invisible, but always watching you and ready to strike any minute.

And now a missile attack is enough to send them scurrying home. They thought they could be the judges of the world and take down a general, and that the world would congratulate them for it. All they got out of it was show the world how weak their army has become and how nobody should be scared of silly Amerikans thinking they still own the world.

Meh