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Paper tiger.

• UltraSane 2mo ago
  That is a remarkably stupid thing to say about the US military.
• throwthrowuknow 2mo ago
  Don’t worry, they can still carpet bomb with high explosive and nuclear always remains an option lest you forget.
  • mr_toad 2mo ago
    The US bombed North Vietnam into dust, but because they didn’t occupy it with ground forces they simply rebuilt and kept coming. You can’t win a war with just air power.
  • mrguyorama 2mo ago
    The US does not have enough B52s and Mk 80s to carpet bomb a place the size of Iran. We barely managed it during Vietnam using depleting surplus and losing many irreplaceable airframes. "Carpet bombing Iran to rubble" literally is not an option
    • throwthrowuknow 2mo ago
      You wouldn’t level the entire country, Tehran is a massive target with a handful of other major centres. Comparisons to Vietnam forget the fact that Iran is very arid and highly dependent on infrastructure for water and energy. No power, water or fuel would cripple them and also collapse their agricultural capacity.
• bluegatty 2mo ago
  In some ways yes, not in others.
• Philorandroid 2mo ago
  Venezuela thought the same thing. Keeping a full-scale deployment at arm's length, and 'only' targeting military targets with exhaustive use of precision missiles is poor strategy, but if a military victory were the US's only ambition the Iranian regime has no capability that could prevent its country from being turned into a smoldering parking lot. Doctrine isn't the same as inability.
  • Arodex 2mo ago
    >if a military victory were the US's only ambition the Iranian regime has no capability that could prevent its country from being turned into a smoldering parking lot. I read this and I wonder, "are we back to 2003 and Iraq?" Incredible how little memory Americans have. Absolutely none. You just have no grasps on reality.
    • Philorandroid 2mo ago
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  • pibaker 2mo ago
    Venezuela was likely a palace coup disguised as a purely foreign intervention by both parties involved. There is a reason why instead of holding an election or having the opposition take over, they just handed the country to Maduro's very own vice president.
  • mrguyorama 2mo ago
    >the Iranian regime has no capability that could prevent its country from being turned into a smoldering parking lot. This is a laughable amount of ignorance. The capability that Iran has to prevent this is physics Iran is gigantic. Iran has 90 million people. If you put together every long range precision munition the US has ever built, you could attack a single City and severely damage it. People have zero sense of scale. To level cities the way we did in WW2 requires the level of industrial output that we had in WW2, because we have literally not made enough explosives to do so since The US dropped 1.4 million tons of bombs on Germany alone in WW2 That's the equivalent of 3 million Tomahawk missiles. The US has built less than 10k total