Baqaei: Before anyone can lay claim to spoils of war, they must first have won the wa
Baqaei: Before anyone can lay claim to spoils of war, they must first have won the war
M.U.H
08/08/202630
Tehran: In a message responding to remarks by US President Donald Trump, who claimed the right to seize spoils from Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei emphasized that before anyone can lay claim to war spoils, they must first emerge victorious in the war.
In a post on his X account Baqaei wrote that the US president has declared that “to the victor belong the spoils.” “We’re taking a lot of oil from Venezuela—billions and billions of barrels of oil… And we’re doing the same in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Trump has added.
Baqaei said that one cannot help but think of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, in which Milo Minderbinder, an opportunist profiteer, turns war into a profit-making venture.
He added that the Novel portrays an absurd world where 'war' and 'profit-making' become so deeply entangled that one can see folks are fighting for their own selfish financial interests rather than for their country.
Baqaei pointed out that the US President appears to be lifting that same logic straight out of the world of fiction and place it at the heart of American foreign policy. Regarding Iran, he says they'll do the same as they allegedly did in Venezuela.
There’s just one small problem, though; before you claim the 'spoils of war', you actually have to win the war—not get stuck in a strait, fall short of your stated (malign) objectives, run low on weapons, and lose credibility along the way.
So far, the “spoils of Iran” amount to nothing more than a paper trophy for a victory that shows no sign of materializing.
Milo at least knew how to make profit out of war؛ these people are busy dividing the spoils in front of the cameras before they’ve even laid hands on them.
