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To win the war another time, I guess ? To be fair, he told us we would get "tired of winning". On a more serious note : could it be that iranian air defense is
by phtrivier 6mo ago
To win the war another time, I guess ? To be fair, he told us we would get "tired of winning".
On a more serious note : could it be that iranian air defense is being supplemented by an ally ? Someone further east ?
Or, simply, that they kept some reserve to keep the war long, and play with the American customer's never ?
- sheikhnbake 6mo agoIran has been preparing for this for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if they held a hidden reserve for air defense and let the USAF 'get comfortable' before redeploying
- KellyCriterion 6mo agoThere was a ("propaganda") video by the Iran Forces some weeks ago showing some underground facilites: If even half of it is true shown there, then they have large capacities.
- sheikhnbake 6mo agoEven if they don't, US war planners now have to factor the possibility of hidden AA defenses in their risk calculus moving forward. So no matter what, a win for Iran to some degree
- tokai 6mo agoWhy make up unsubstantiated claims about Chinese support, when it is known that Russia supports Iran with military hardware?
- vkou 6mo agoRussia's pretty busy with its own war.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoBut probably itching to do to the US what the US did to them in Ukraine. (And doing so is likely to reduce US aid to Ukraine, as a bonus to them. Ukraine's certainly not likely to get Tomahawks and Patriots right now.)
- mcphage 6mo agoAnd what better way to support that by making some money selling weapons, especially if it gives you a chance to expand your manufacturing base due to increased demand?
- thisislife2 6mo agoContrary to popular belief, Iran's most important arms supplier has been China, and not Russia, in the last decade. To preserve its ties with Israel and Saudi Arabia, Russia has sometimes compromised arm shipments to Iran. Historically too, Russia has worked with France and Britain to undermine Iran, through the Shah.
- phtrivier 6mo agoTo be honest, I was thinking as much about Russia as about China, but I fumbled my geography by over-easting Moscow. Sorry.
- dboreham 6mo agoIf your enemy loudly proclaims for decades that their strategy is to initially destroy AA capability then roam at will through clear airspace, presumably it doesn't take much imagination to plan to not reveal some proportion of your AA capability initially?