{"id":325614,"date":"2026-04-02T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325614"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:09:43","slug":"defeated-and-delusional-netanyahus-remarks-reveal-80bn-war-failure-says-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325614","title":{"rendered":"Defeated and delusional: Netanyahu\u2019s remarks reveal $80bn war failure, says analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 April 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s recent statements on Iran, claiming that it no longer poses an existential threat to the regime is a complete strategic failure that suggests he is leaving office \u201cdefeated,\u201d says an analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patricia Marins, a Brazilian military analyst, in a post on X on Thursday, characterized Netanyahu\u2019s remarks not as a sign of strength, but as the ultimate admission of failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing more defeatist than this. It is 100% defeatist rhetoric,\u201d Marins said.<\/p>\n<p>Her critique centers on the unfulfilled war objectives that Netanyahu himself had laid out.<\/p>\n<p>According to Marins, he had consistently articulated three primary goals regarding Iran: regime change, limiting Iran\u2019s missile capabilities, and dismantling its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has achieved none of these objectives,\u201d Marins stated.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she maintained, the war has saddled Israel with staggering economic damage.<\/p>\n<p>Marins cited operational costs and broader economic losses to paint a picture of a war that has yielded no strategic gains at a prohibitive financial price.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sirens blared across Haifa in the occupied territories as residents scrambled for shelter, with many rushing into underground metro stations amid warnings of an incoming Iranian missile attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bcAdZAj3RT\">pic.twitter.com\/bcAdZAj3RT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/2039266511018463454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has saddled Israel with $60-80 billion in losses from this war,\u201d she said, breaking down the daily expenditures. \u201cEach day of operations, including interceptors and material damage, costs between $1.5-2 billion, based on the spending during the 12-day war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the full scope of the damage is still being calculated, with thousands of compensation claims already filed for direct damage caused by Iranian missile attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst said the Israeli ministry of finance estimates the broader economic loss at $3 billion per week.<\/p>\n<p>Marins framed the outcome as a direct consequence of what she called Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cmegalomania,\u201d noting that his approach has created more problems than solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst suggested that Israel\u2019s aggressive posture may have backfired strategically regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Iranians hadn\u2019t built a nuclear weapon before, now they have every reason to do so,\u201d Marins said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/04\/01\/766169\/defeated-delusional-netanyahu-iran-retreat-reveals-80bn-war-failure-analyst\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war with Iran may mark the end of Netanyahu\u2019s premiership. If so he will leave a bitter legacy of ruined infrastructure and nearly $90 billion in debt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325618,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325614\/revisions\/325618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}