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One of the big reasons ansarallah were able to succeed is because the US is not willing to take major losses to several things it claims supremacy in.
Maintaining the illusion of supremacy is more important to them than winning some fights, if they can be scared enough into believing that pushing too hard will get losses to fighters or ships, they back off because they want their airforce and fleet to be viewed as a force you simply can not contest. Maintaining that image is more important than winning because it wins many confrontations without ever fighting. As soon as someone makes them bleed otherwise will be more likely to try and fight too.
Incidentally, this is precisely why Ukraine has been such a debacle for the US. It stripped away the myth of superiority of US weapons and shows that they are in many ways inferior to Soviet and current Russian designs.
I think the illusion of supremacy helps at the political level. Military heads might know that it's not real but politicians are genuinely affected by the illusion of total supremacy and it informs their decision making, reducing acts of hubris.
Absolutely, the 90s, when the US was an unchallenged world power, were formative years for these people. They're still stuck in that time psychologically, unable to grapple with the reality of the world as it is today.
There is a downside. The western political sphere is also still stuck in the past, they believe in their own technological military supremacy. This is partly why there are still western politicians that believe they can win in Ukraine.
No side being supreme and the very slowly losing side being in total denial leads an endless grinding war that barely moves and never ends.
I think the war will end with the west having an economic collapse at this point. What I'm really worried about is that the US leadership will be crazy enough to go nuclear against Russia or China.
It's like the US is a big, scary-looking animal, like a tiger. But it's actually very flimsy, like balsa wood, or... ooh, paper! Someone should write that down.
✍️ US of A... is a... balsa wood... bobcat