One month into its illegal, unprovoked war of choice against Iran, with neither of the US’s two main strategic goals seeming attainable—enforcing regime change and denying Iran the ability to develop a nuclear weapon—it now faces a grave quagmire. Besides reshaping the global narrative in favour of its adversary—an otherwise internationally isolated and domestically oppressive, unpopular Iranian regime—the US’s ill-advised campaign, in partnership with its regional ally Israel, has led to a gravely precarious military scenario that could bog it down indefinitely with increasing human and material costs, a deeply divided and largely opposed domestic public opinion, and a further loss of credibility and control within the global order, with traditional rivals China and Russia growing in influence and steadfast allies hedging away from it.