Questions on our military readiness and long term effects from this Iran failure

From most accounts it appears we placed a lot of hope on the initial shock and awe of the bombings of Iran leading to a quick capitulation by the regime to make an favorable deal for us and/or the Iranian people rising up to overthrow them once we weakened them.

Then neither happened. Then of course the constant back and forth of deal or no deal with threats we didn’t follow through on. And ultimately this shite deal being made to end the conflict, which appears to be more in Irans favor than ours. And bad deals haven’t been Trumps forte. But this discussion isn’t about the deal itself but why we made it and why didn’t we continue to bomb, take Kharg Island, anything to add pressure? Or just go take the uranium ourselves using special forces like we did extracting Maduro?

To me this raises far more concerning questions regarding our military which is supposed to be by far more advanced and powerful than anyone else. And technology wise it is. But reading between the lines it seems we have some cool expensive shite but not near enough munitions for all of it. We do not have the capability to maintain a long term military occupation or bombing campaign against a formidable foe. And Iran, while formidable, is way behind many other adversaries i.e Russia and China. I fear this Iran war just exposed us as a paper tiger more or less. The world thinks our military is unstoppable and that idea largely protects our financial system with the petrodollar as the world reserve currency. Nobody really has had the balls to challenge that. Now there is uncertainty if we really are that far ahead of everyone else. Are we vulnerable? Are we focusing too much of our military budget on equipment and other things instead of stockpiling munitions? Did Biden simply give too much away to Ukraine and it will just take a couple years to restock? What the frick is 900 billion a year going to if we cannot even hand Iran a complete and total defeat? If that’s the return on investment we are getting for that price then we need to cut our budget to 250 billion, mind our business, and get our finances in order instead before the world realizes we can be beaten and decides to topple the house of cards we are propping up with a supposed unstoppable military force.