During the last decades, we experienced different wars in the Middle East leading to an almost total destruction of civil infrastructure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It should be mentioned that, in all three cases, Israel seemed to be at the origin of any US military action whatsoever.
We have to remember that Afghanistan was once a politically stable kingdom in a remote part of Central Asia, when it was first ruined by a Russian invasion that brought about the predecessors of today's Taliban rule. Under the US, who were fuelling the resistance of the national Mujahedeen movement against Russia by arming them, traditional structures of power were finally replaced by Bin Laden and his guys from Al-Qaeda, later declared to be 'global terrorists'. In the years that followed, Afghanistan was extensively bombed and invaded by US forces. Years later, however, it was (only recently) retaken by an even more old-fashioned species of Taliban who made the Americans flee from their country, in a similar scenario like we experienced years before when the US definitely lost their war in Vietnam and hastily left the zone of combat.
Same goes with Iraq where the iron-fist rule of President Saddam Hussein was ultimately replaced after an extensive US bombing of Saddam's military infrastructure. The Americans, acting without an appropriate plan after having placed their 'boots on the ground', then engaged with the wrong local politicians and finally left an unstable and even more corrupt government, endangered by the newly formed Islamic State IS. It was said that a breathtaking military success of IS became possible with the help of especially zealous parts of Saddam's former army. In the end, the Islamic State could be kept under control in Iraq and Syria, while their affiliates in Egypt and Nigeria are known for being active up to now.
I still remember a mediocre US President Bush jr. announcing his "Mision accomplished", surrounded by US soldiers and aboard some US aircraft carrier, far away from the real combat zones. The same president who earlier said: "We are addicted to oil". Later presidents had to care for bringing home a mass of US troops.
In Syria things are actually still undergoing extensive changes, and a view on the current situation is still blurred.
And now we have a War on Iran, started by Israel and the US, and which has now reached some kind of stalemate.
For the first time in US history, US supremacy has been challenged by a defiant regime that rejects to negotiate some kind of 'peace' on the terms of an aggressor who started an unfair war.
Simultaneously, US allies, snubbed by an immature & narcissistic guy heading the White House, are announcing that any War on Iran is not their's.
And it is just Spain, an important member of the European Union, that recently encouraged its partners to refrain from supporting the US engagement in Iran. The reason for that seems to be a deeply rooted experience in the necessity of fighting fascism that comes about with irrational bombing of foreign citizens and which is related to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, only decades away. To get an idea of the Spanish way of opposing fascism, you should have a look at the PDF file below (1.4 MB / 3 pages):
=> The Spanish Spirit of Rebellion Opposing Fascism <=
And here is latest news about how the US most advanced warplane F-35 became subject to Iranian GPS spoofing. The information sounds believable to me. However, you should track & check it, in order to find out, if this is really breaking news.
