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The past couple years have really brought into focus to me the asymmetry, if how easy and cheap destruction and ruining things is, and how much harder maintaini
by jauntywundrkind 5mo ago
The past couple years have really brought into focus to me the asymmetry, if how easy and cheap destruction and ruining things is, and how much harder maintaining and defending and protecting can be.
It seems like a wild claim to me to make that no, Iran can't make some small/medium underwater drones to go harass and destroy underwater cables. Protecting miles of lines splayed out across a big hard to get to area seems like a hard challenge.
(Big years for pests everywhere. Really really coming out in legion force.)
- 627467 5mo agoIranian regime (and adversaries, if they were frank) would argue they have been effective at maintaining/defending/protecting. Just look at current state of things
- spwa4 5mo agoLet's see. Iran's exports down 90% (you want to laugh? Ukraine claims half of what remains is Iran selling oil to Russia to export to Europe, especially to Spain) Inflation somewhere between 60% and 140% (the higher number is for food). Population complaining about massive layoffs everywhere. There is a domestic oil shortage now in Iran. Iran was in a continuous recession for over a decade, economic activity reducing 10% per year for a decade BEFORE the war started. Obviously, they cannot last very long like this.