@yogthos I think the first half of your sentence may be true. The second half is not nearly so certain in my mind.

Remind me how Vietnam worked out for the burger reich again?

It's already happening. Iran now charges a toll for passage through Hormuz. Iran has destroyed US bases across the region and pushed back the empire. They are already in a far stronger position than they were before the war started. All the Gulf states can now see that the US security umbrella is worthless, and they have to start making deals with Iran if they are to survive. The defeat of the fascists by Iran in their region is absolutely going to make Iran stronger going forward.

This is precisely why Iran has gotten tunnel tech from NK. The US technique of bombing everything to rubble won't stop Iran's missile capabilities, they're too far underground for even bunker busters to hit.

They've also shown how much of a paper tiger the US really is, unable to achieve it's war goals against a country with a GDP of a single (US) state (not to mention the decades of sanctions)

US force projection has been irreversibly crippled, and will only diminish

And this, once again, show that GDP isn't really a meaningful metric to begin with.