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Thinking about the US and Israel attacking Iran with no clear (to me) or no clearly communicated end goal, timetable, or strategy obviously makes you speculate.

Clearly regime change is one goal even if we say it’s not. Killing the supreme leader in the first round of strikes makes it evident that, as just confirmed, this particular target has been on the list for a long time. Now strikes are disrupting attempts to meet or communicate to nominate a new leader. So it’s obvious regime change was a goal.

But without a communicated end goal or strategies, what other objectives are there? With the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, that question is significantly cleared up as well. We are disrupting Asian economies — almost all of them.

So that will disrupt the objectives of the main countries that the US sees as threats to its economy and diplomacy (hegemony). China and India mainly, but also Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. China is the most likely candidate to help Cuba survive the US’s recently hardened embargo which, again, is intended to force regime change.