The war expands across the Middle EastIn July, the US/Israel–Iran War widened into a regional war with new non-state and state actors. Furthermore, like Germany in World War II, the US finds itself making extremely expensive weapons systems that take a while to build. In World War II, the US churned out tanks in great volume, which overwhelmed the far fewer, though better built German Panzers. The US no longer has the industrial strength it had, which led to its victory in World War II. US wages unpopular war, Iran sees conflict as existentialWhile the war is increasingly unpopular in the US, Iran sees the war as existential.