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On Sunday, it was announced that the United States and Iran had finally struck a peace deal to end the war President Donald Trump started nearly four months ago. Analysis of the outcome is still pouring in, but according to Republican strategist Steve Schmidt<\/u>, two things are immediately clear: not only did Trump lose, but America\u2019s opponents around the world gained \u201calarming lessons\u201d that have diminished the US presence on the world stage. <\/p>\n

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According to Schmidt, \u201cHistory will ask a simple question: what was achieved? The answer is devastating.\u201d After entering the war with uncertain objectives but many soaring promises, he leaves it with \u201ca ceasefire, an unsigned framework, unanswered questions about Iran\u2019s nuclear program, and an Iranian regime that remains standing, defiant, more radicalized, wealthier and powerful than before.\u201d <\/p>\n

As Schmidt elaborates, theoretically, the central motive for the war \u2014 Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities \u2014 has been much discussed by the Trump administration, but \u201cthe uranium stockpile wasn\u2019t paraded before the cameras. It wasn\u2019t seized. It wasn\u2019t verified as destroyed. It remains the subject of uncertainty, intelligence assessments, negotiations and speculation. News coverage<\/u> continues to note unresolved questions about the fate of highly enriched uranium, and whether Iran retained material that could someday be used in a weapons program.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what was won? <\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer is nothing that can withstand scrutiny,\u201d writes Schmidt. \u201cThe regime remains in power. The ayatollahs remain in power. The Revolutionary Guard remains in power. The nuclear question remains unresolved. The missile question remains unresolved. The proxy-war question remains unresolved. The terrorism question remains unresolved.\u201d<\/p>\n

A more certain result, he asserts, is in the form of what US opponents around the world have learned from the conflict. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that has been conclusively demonstrated is that the United States spent enormous amounts of money, depleted critical stockpiles, exposed vulnerabilities and arrived back where it started \u2014 except weaker,\u201d says Schmidt. \u201cMuch weaker. One of the most alarming lessons of this conflict concerns the future of warfare itself. Cheap, mass-produced and disposable drones. The war revealed something that military planners around the world already understood, but that many Americans preferred not to contemplate. Billion-dollar weapons systems can be challenged by technology that costs a tiny fraction of their price. The monopoly on advanced warfare has ended.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But while the Trump administration seems not to have learned this lesson, choosing instead to prioritize so-called \u201cTrump-class\u201d battleships that military experts<\/u> have decried as an outdated concept, Schmidt asserts that US adversaries have learned much that will buoy their attacks in wars to come. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery adversary of the United States was watching,\u201d explains Schmidt. \u201cEvery dictator. Every terrorist organization. Every hostile intelligence service. Every military planner in Beijing, Moscow and Tehran. They were watching and learning. Wars are laboratories. The lessons learned in one become the foundation of the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now, asserts Schmidt, with a peace plan that ultimately resolves few of the core questions of the conflict, \u201cThis isn\u2019t peace. This is an intermission. This isn\u2019t resolution. This is postponement.\u201d Another war, he says, is almost certain to come, and when it does, American adversaries will be equipped with vital lessons they learned during this one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why failed wars are so dangerous,\u201d Schmidt concludes. \u201cThey plant the seeds of larger wars to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

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