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I got to say, whatever my opinion of Iran, they’re really leveraging the few advantages they have very well. Between the Shahed drones, the threat to the desali
by dyauspitr 7mo ago
I got to say, whatever my opinion of Iran, they’re really leveraging the few advantages they have very well. Between the Shahed drones, the threat to the desalination plants and essentially the complete shut off of oil and natural gas, there is nothing anyone can really do. You can’t defang Iran because those Shaheds are tiny and can be stored and launched from anywhere. You can’t send in an invasive ground force because that will result in tens of thousands of coalition deaths. You can’t bomb their cities because they don’t care about civilian deaths. This might end up actually solidifying the Islamic Republic then if you had just let events run their course.
- 3eb7988a1663 7mo ago"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." -Paul Atreides
- beardyw 7mo agoA quote from fiction which should continue " ... at the point of destruction, after which there is nothing to control."
- dyauspitr 7mo agoThey can’t destroy Iran though. Can’t kill 10s of millions of people.
- 3eb7988a1663 7mo agoThe destruction is referring to the strait. Iran has the ability to shutdown access to it, so they control it.
- anovikov 7mo ago[flagged]
- ZeroGravitas 7mo agoSome thankless government employee is trying to talk Trump out of commiting this series of war crimes right as we speak. I wonder if Iran forsaw that. They've been doing the tit-for-tat thing pretty well so far. What kind of mass scale civilian casualty war crimes could they retaliate with?
- anovikov 7mo ago[flagged]
- locallost 7mo agoWhat was said was, you are advocating war crimes. There is a reason why even when these are committed, they are not communicated in this way, and there's a pretense of noble action. You don't want to live in a world where destruction of power plants, reducing societies to loosely connected tribes etc. is casually talked about. You are not that safe.
- anovikov 7mo ago[flagged]
- jfengel 7mo agoWe appear to be planning to send a ground force. I suspect that the US has overwhelming force, as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it would also be a bloodbath; Iran is better prepared than either of the two previous opponents are.