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Ah 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 Afg
by ummonk 1y ago
Ah 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?
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoThey still trade oil with China, that is as much as the rest of the world they need. Of course, getting trade overland is a bit more difficult than by boat which is mostly cut off during a war.