Trump threatens to destroy Iran's 477 power plants to reopen Hormuz. Three wars prove infrastructure bombing creates humanitarian catastrophe without strategic gain.
This cost asymmetry has created what amounts to a conventional form of Mutually Assured Destruction, where both sides hold the other’s critical infrastructure hostage without any prospect of a decisive first strike.
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