How the “Failure” of Trump’s Bombing Raid Won the Israeli-Iran War

To many observers, the contrast looked like humiliation: Trump’s boasting versus the UN’s sober correction. That framing stuck because it gratified several audiences—Tehran’s propagandists, European diplomats tired of “maximum pressure,” and Trump critics at home. But diplomacy is not Twitter. Once you step back from headline optics and analyse the strategic scoreboard, the “failed-raid” story has already delivered the very outcome Israel and the Trump White House wanted.