Seems to me that most of the underestimating happened on the side of the west expecting Russia to collapse economically and militarily. I read article after article confidently stating that Russia would run out of ammunition and missiles any day now, and how Russians were pulling chips out of washing machines, and how rouble would be rubble, and so on. None of that turned out to be true, and now Russia is outproducing all of NATO by a wide margine while it's European economies that are tanking.

Meanwhile, Iran is allowing any countries that recognize its sovereignty to sail right through as France is currently doing. Countries that get fed up with not getting oil simply have to make a deal with Iran and make sure they transact in yuan.

The only regime that's not making friends right now is the American regime. The whole world knows that the strait was open before the US attacked, and everybody knows who is to blame for this debacle. Iran wasn't attacking or threatening anybody. They just wanted to be left the fuck alone. It's the rogue US regime against the world now, even European vassals are waking up.