I hear what you’re saying and typically I would agree with you, but I don’t think it’s gonna work that way. I think the shock of losing a carrier or a carrier and a few jets and not accomplishing anything will create a blowback of a larger magnitude than these fuckwits are calculating, and faster too. This is existential for Iran and they’ve been planning for it for decades, this isn’t 2001, this isn’t Iraq or Lybia, yadda yadda yadda, you know where I’m going with this.

This is a “Hail Mary” and the quarterback has blinders and can’t stay awake for more than a few hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

“You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”

Or any of the numerous cascading consequences of being arrested and charged with a crime.

Iran is going to sink an aircraft carrier

Capitalism encapsulated: They sell you “meritocracy”, you get a suicide machine.

Also, these Neo-feudalist freaks, the one thing they don’t seem to understand is that when you set up a mafia infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before one of your capos shoots a hellfire missile up your asshole and takes your place. You want Rome, you get Rome, complete with the Praetorian Guard.

At this point we should call it embezzlement instead of investment