Iran is in a predicament entirely of their own making, and sad for them — and good for us — everything they do from this point forward makes it worse and worse for them, and conversely, good for us.

That “good for us” thing I popped in there is a lengthy article all by itself, but for the purposes of this one, certain parts of the rationale behind that statement will be shared here.

I’ll spare you the history/current events lesson here because I simply want to get to the point I want to make this morning.  That is that Iran, Islamic Republic of, is a paper tiger at best when it comes to military capability.  And, as Iran is a key ally of Russia and its leader, Vladimir PotatoHead, this has a lot of meaning attached to it.

Iran doesn’t go up against other nations face-to-face militarily, not since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980’s, a war that ended only after the mutual exhaustion of both parties involved.  Instead, Iran funds proxy militias around the Middle East, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen (apologies to any other Islamic militias I may have missed) and uses these proxies to harass their enemies, primarily Israel, and until recently, Saudi Arabia.  But Iran stays on the sidelines cheerleading the myriad atrocities performed on their behalf by these militias, playing a game of regional peekaboo that anyone with cognizance can see through.  I suppose they feel it gives them some “plausible deniability” when it comes to the havoc caused by their hired guns who they keep fed with missile and rocket technology while Iran itself struggles with a quality of life that its citizens resent having to shoulder.