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If you're in Iran it makes sense that you would want that if you feel that Israel is a threat. (But it doesn't make it a good idea). I meant that demographical
by awongh 1y ago
If you're in Iran it makes sense that you would want that if you feel that Israel is a threat. (But it doesn't make it a good idea).
I meant that demographically, if your populace isn't as poor, battle hardened and religious (like Afghanistan) maybe going into a long ground war is less politically feasible?
In Afghanistan they had basically just been fighting a war, where the last war in Iran was 30 years ago?
- sealeck 1y ago> I meant that demographically, if your populace isn't as poor, battle hardened and religious (like Afghanistan) maybe going into a long ground war is less politically feasible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War Excerpts: > 95,000 Iranian child soldiers were casualties during the Iran–Iraq War, mostly between the ages of 16 and 17, with a few younger > The conflict has been compared to World War I: 171 in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned machine gun posts, bayonet charges, human wave attacks across a no man's land, and extensive use of chemical weapons such as sulfur mustard by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops, civilians, and Kurds. The world powers United States and the Soviet Union, together with many Western and Arab countries, provided military, intelligence, economic, and political support for Iraq. On average, Iraq imported about $7 billion in weapons during every year of the war, accounting for fully 12% of global arms sales in the period.
- awongh 1y agoThat was 40 years ago though. So no one fighting on the ground in that war would be fighting on the ground in a war that starts today.
- jjk166 1y agoNo, but they're the ones making the decisions about fighting such a war. The child soldiers in the 1980s are the politicians, the diplomats, and the generals in the 2020s.
- Forgeties79 1y ago“…and we turned out just fine!”
- awongh 1y agoThey say that for WWI that it was one of the aspects that kept it "more civilized" (whatever that means in the context of war).
- ummonk 1y agoAh I see what you mean. Yes they don’t have the birth rate (or the suicidal fanaticism) to sustain a decades long attritional war against an occupation like Afghanistan or Yemen can. But given the size of the existing Iranian population and geography, and the lack of any significantly sized pre-existing anti-government military faction, I’m not sure the US military is large enough to even occupy Iran in the first place, absent a draft.
- awongh 1y agoIt would be reaaalllly stupid for the USA to invade Iran. Hopefully Iran is the one that blinks for the reasons above.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoWhy would they blink when they know they are safe from a boots on the ground invasion for the forseeable future?
- jt_b 1y agoI think they probably like having an GDP 25x larger than North Korea's. Gets a lot harder to export your products around the world when you're squared off against the US.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoHow does that follow?
- gregoryl 1y ago> if you feel that Israel is a threat Israel is very clearly, without any question or doubt, a serious threat to every one of its neighbors.
- Ancapistani 1y agoJordan seems pretty safe and happy to me.
- nebula8804 1y agoLike the Pager attack thats just another long game it seems: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/14tcxgq/zionist_version_of_greater_israel/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/14tcxgq/zionist_ve... EDIT, clearer map: https://www.islam21c.com/wp-content/uploads/The-alarming-details-of-Israels-future-ambitions.jpg https://www.islam21c.com/wp-content/uploads/The-alarming-det...
- throwaway2037 1y agoIt has a peace treaty with Jordan and Egypt. Also, they signed the Abraham Accords with UAE and Bahrain. As far I know, there is no risk of conflict with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, nor Oman. Who else am I missing? Half joking: (ignoring Trump's recent "threats") Is the US a threat to Canada or Mexico?
- firesteelrain 1y agoMexico is more of a threat. So many drugs flow North. It’s slowly killing generations of people for decades.
- sebmellen 1y agoEgypt, Jordan, Cyprus? Really?
- golol 1y ago[flagged]