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They lack the capability to do much aside from disrupt shipping with SRBMs. They've taken down only one drone, which is one less than the Houthis. Their ballist
by energy123 1y ago
They lack the capability to do much aside from disrupt shipping with SRBMs. They've taken down only one drone, which is one less than the Houthis. Their ballistic capability is heavily degraded. Their military leadership is gone. Their airforce is gone. Their air defense is gone. They're a paper tiger and I don't understand why people still think there's the prospect of some kind of grand retaliation. They're not holding back, they just can't do anything.
- Aloisius 1y agoAs if conventional responses are the only way to retaliate. We are talking about Iran here. They're all about asymmetric warfare.
- energy123 1y agoTheir intelligence heads are also all gone. What kind of response do you envisage?
- Aloisius 1y agoWell. Some guys with a tiny fraction of the funding Iran has managed to fly a few airliners into some buildings a few years back. So, I imagine there are perhaps unconventional options available to a country which is fully willing to fund terrorist groups for decades against a country with a very large amount of largely unprotected infrastructure. But who knows? It just seems a bit premature to argue Iran's defeat. Feels a bit... mission accomplished.
- firesteelrain 1y agoEven more reason for them to go. It’s not good enough to continue taking it from Iran.
- Aloisius 1y agoAhh, trying to bomb your way to regime change in the Middle East. This feels so familiar. What could possibly go wrong? If only those who advocated for war were forced to fight in them.
- firesteelrain 1y agoI fought in Iraq.
- emilsedgh 1y ago[flagged]
- firesteelrain 1y agoThanks!
- Aloisius 1y agoWill you be volunteering to fight in Iran next? And any wars that fall out of it from a country with twice the population of Iraq being destabilized?
- firesteelrain 1y agoI am already volunteering But I dont think we are invading Obama attacked Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. We aren’t there now are we? December 1, 2012 - 300th drone strike on Pakistan. Obama executed 563 drone strikes on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan alone while in office.
- seanmcdirmid 1y ago> Obama attacked Pakistan I’m scratching my head on this because Pakistan was and is still a US ally, but I guess you mean the Bin Laden operation?
- energy123 1y agoThey were already doing that in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq and Bahrain. They weren't holding back before, and they won't hold back after. But their ability to do that is now severely degraded. The officials overseeing these programs are now gone. The weapons they were sending to these groups are now reduced.
- ExoticPearTree 1y ago> Their intelligence heads are also all gone. What kind of response do you envisage? It does not mean that their ability to gather intelligence or use it is 100% gone. It most likely means they are a bit in disarray because of their top-down command structure. And maybe it takes a day or two until they put someone in charge.
- jopsen 1y agoUkraine just demonstrated how to mess with long range aviation parked in the open. I'm not saying it's easy, but there are many soft targets in America. But yeah, who knows. The wise choice here is to go home and not play. The US and Israel are not about to invade with ground forces. And if they were it'd be without support from European countries.
- farts_mckensy 1y agoWhat planet have you been living on the past 25 years? Iran has a population of almost 100 million as well as a sizeable diaspora across the world. If even a small percentage of the population engages in terrorism, that translates into thousands of potential actors. And unlike a state-to-state war, this is the kind of distributed, unpredictable threat that’s much harder to deter or contain.
- Cyclone_ 1y agoAgree that they can't retaliate through their military, but if they did it would likely be through terror attacks on civilians.
- dudefeliciano 1y agoA tactital victory does not translate to a strategic victory. I'd like to remind you the "Mission Accomplished" fiasco by George W, that was followed by more than 10 years of war and hundreds of thousands dead.
- gorbachev 1y agoIt's going to be a very bad time for American interests and people outside of the United States in the next few years.