Glenn Greenwald

No, of course not.

We got the government in place.

There are, I don't know, maybe symbolic rights that now that that are honored that that didn't previously.

But by and large, it's the same exact system.

So same here in Iran.

Like, think about everything we were hearing in the lead up to this war.

Oh, the government is killing protesters by the tens of thousands.

It's a tyrannical government as though we fight wars to free people.

We don't hear about that anymore.

Like, clearly, that's not the goal of whatever we're doing in Iran that we're going to...

impose democracy and build some sort of free government.

I mean, that would take, you know, decades of nation building of the kind that we failed to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, Libya and everywhere else we tried.

Like who would ever think really doing that?

So the question is like, what is winning even look like?

And you can see, I mean, the street of Hormuz is closed.

We cannot open it.

Despite what we were told, the Iranians are launching massive amounts of ballistic missiles, not just at Israel, but at the energy sectors in the entire Persian Gulf on U.S.

military bases, many of which have been rendered inoperable by Iranian airstrikes.

And then just today, they blew an F-15B fighter jet out of the sky, something that was thought utterly impossible for them to do.

And yet they did it.