>>330030
Well, George W. Bush went full retard with the Axis of Evil speech where the USA declared that they absolutely did intend to go to war with Iran just because the thought of being the world's sole superpower made their dicks hard. Right up until that moment, Iran was actually assisting the USA a lot with neutralizing the Taliban, because Iran was also at war with them and because the Taliban had a bigger history of trying to blow up Iranian Shia holy sites than it did of trying to blow up the USA, so Iran wanted to kill these people very badly and coordinated with the USA for the two goals of killing more Taliban and staying out of each other's way. It went pretty well until the USA said "actually Iran, we want to do the same shit we did with Iraq and Afghanistan to your country too" at which point Iran's new policy became "fuck up everything the USA is doing, keep your enemies busy fighting each other, and keep the USA bogged down in forever conflicts in the middle east so that the war is being fought outside your borders instead of inside."
The end result of that was a failed Afghanistan war, among many other problems, but the USA also fucked up plenty on its own with horrible mismanagement and lying. The media really carried a lot of water for Biden too by letting him get away with completely fumbling the exit.