Ineptness as art form ...

US foreign policy has been an ongoing disaster for over 60+ years beginning with the CIA placing Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh under house arrest in 1953 in order to enable England to get Iran's oil.

Before its removal from power, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land. His government's most significant policy was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/AIOC), later known as British Petroleum (BP).[10]

It gets better ...

In the aftermath of the overthrow, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returned to power, and negotiated the Consortium Agreement of 1954 with the British, which gave split ownership of Iranian oil production between Iran and western companies until 1979.[11] Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death and was buried in his own home so as to prevent a political furor.[12][13] In 2013, the U.S. government formally acknowledged the U.S. role in the coup, as a part of its foreign policy initiatives, including paying protestors and bribing officials.[14]

Mohammad Mosaddegh 1952

محمد مصدق

35th Prime Minister of Iran

So ... we made an enemy of a former ally that remains an enemy in 2023 while China triumphs in negotiating a reopening of diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran along with the fact SA will now sell it's oil using the Yuan as the means to make it happen. 

This kind of blunder has been repeated ad nauseam as the MIC runs America because endless war is good for business for the very few while the nation as a whole suffers. Think Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lybya, along with Syria for exquisite US military initiatives while spending a cool 8 trillion to complete the task at hand. Question, what's the P&L on that deal besides broken countries, civilians killed and the real possibility of the death of the dollar due to ineptness as art form, performed by the US for over 70+ years.

A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI

 

In closing ... 

Only two weeks after Saudi Arabia announced an effort to establish diplomatic ties to Iran in a deal mediated by China, more news surfaced that Saudi Arabia was also planning to reopen its embassy in Syria for the first time in over a decade.  Rumors are swirling that Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria are on the verge of geopolitical and economic agreements that sidestep the US.  It is perhaps not surprising that just as these deals are being announced, there has been a sudden resurgence of fighting between US forces in Syria and Iran supported insurgent groups in the eastern region of the country.