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How is Iran just cool with getting curb stomped this hard
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Anonymous 5d

I think the Iranians were under the assumption this would become an actual land invasion like Iraq, in which case their military would still be decimated but they’d take thousands upon thousands of Americans with them in the inevitable insurgency. I don’t think they expected an air and missile campaign and they certainly didn’t expect to lose almost all their leaders, or that Russian and Chinese air defense systems are so trash

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Anonymous 5d

It’s called asymmetric warfare. Look at history: Vietcong, Taliban, etc.

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Anonymous 5d

In a militaristic contest the US won in the first 24 hours. Now it’s an economic war which we have way more to lose than Iran. I think they’re playing to get other countries involved for a ground invasion.

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Anonymous 5d

Probably b/c they’re hurting our wallets w/gas prices

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Anonymous 5d

Because they know the music will stop in the west if oil prices stay high for long enough and we keep having to shoot down their thousand dollar drones with million dollar interceptors

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Anonymous 5d

They’re literally winning the war

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

This probably won’t last too long though

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

Idk why they think that is going to work out for them. They know they can’t hurt gas prices forever right? They’ll lose the ability to threaten the strait before we start to really care about

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

They can essentially hold the strait indefinitely, how will it not last that long (unless they reach a peace deal?)

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Anonymous 5d

This isn’t a 1980s Manhattan real estate deal. Can’t barge in w/bravado and expect everybody to come to heel

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5d

But I mean all it takes is the *threat* of a $5000 drone going into your oil tanker and exploding…. and then it’s not worth it for insurance

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5d

How

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

Their weapons are cheaper than ours, they can hold the Strait for a long time, they’re on the home-field and the war is ALREADY unpopular in America. They’ve got more reason to keep fighting, and it costs them less to do so. America lost this war in the first 24 hours.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5d

I feel like it depends on how you define “winning”. This is probably going to end as a stalemate where they either make a peace deal or the US pulls out and declares a win somehow. The public can’t objectively assess whether it was actually a win, because the objectives were never entirely clear

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 5d

Nah, when you, as the world’s foremost superpower, get ground to a stalemate by a non-superpower to the point of losing, being forced out, and failing to accomplish shit, that’s an L. Kicking out the world’s biggest superpower by waging asymmetrical warfare until they simply can’t go on is also an unequivocal W.

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