{"id":697940,"date":"2026-05-14T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=697940"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:03:23","slug":"neocon-grandee-robert-kagan-issues-surprise-scathing-critique-of-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=697940","title":{"rendered":"Neocon Grandee Robert Kagan Issues Surprise Scathing Critique Of Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done,&#8221;<\/strong> he concluded bleakly. Kagan argued that control over the Strait of Hormuz has fundamentally shifted the balance of power.\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world,&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/neocon-grandee-robert-kagan-issues-surprise-scathing-critique-iran-war\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/neocon-grandee-robert-kagan-issues-surprise-scathing-critique-iran-war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kagan co-founded the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_for_the_New_American_Century\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_for_the_New_American_Century)<\/a> and is married to Victoria Nuland (former US Assistant Secretary of State)\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made\/\">https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made\/<\/a>) &amp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957<\/a>).\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done,&#8221; he concluded bleakly. Kagan argued that control over the Strait of Hormuz has fundamentally shifted the balance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=697940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697943,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697940\/revisions\/697943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}