{"id":59324,"date":"2026-05-12T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59324"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:57","slug":"ron-paul-says-the-us-has-lost-in-iran-now-comes-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/ron-paul-says-the-us-has-lost-in-iran-now-comes-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul says The US Has Lost in Iran. Now Comes the Pain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/lpBsa\">shocking article appearing in the pro-war <em>Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, arch neocon Robert Kagan has declared a US defeat in its war on Iran. It is a defeat more painful and thorough than the loss in Afghanistan and even Vietnam, he argues. Now, with that loss, comes the pain. Economic. Reputational. And more. The world has suddenly changed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzHb5FCwjv4?si=sPamQpWA6GfROd6z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In a shocking article appearing in the pro-war Atlantic, arch neocon Robert Kagan has declared a US defeat in its war on Iran. It is a defeat more painful and thorough than the loss in Afghanistan and even Vietnam, he argues. Now, with that loss, comes the pain. Economic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-59324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59326,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59324\/revisions\/59326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}