• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Consider that Iran has already taken down - allegedly - as many as four F-35Is, I can think of a few reasons why the US has been reluctant to tangle with either country.

    Trump’s rush to invade Iran only happened after Israel preemptively launched their military decapitation attack and missile bombardment “preemptive” strikes. The US has been dragging its heels on an Iran invasion since the 2002 Millennium Challenge suggested an all out war with Iran would be a disaster for US international fighting capacity. The definition of a pyrrhic victory.

    Already, the US deployment away from the Pacific Rim has resulted in Chinese ships occupying territorial waters that the US had historically patrolled.

    So this is already shaping up to be a historic internationally reorienting military blunder, even without nukes involved. Imagine the US trying to do an Iraq-style land war in Russia, plus an invasion of Iran, plus the low-key war with Yemen and Somalia, plus our military operations in North Africa, plus policing the Pacific, plus doing our military exercises on the US/Mexico border, plus whatever dumb horseshit military parades Trump wants to see.

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    1 day ago

    If USA beginns a War with Iran, also Rusia and China do against the US. The EU in the middle between them

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    23 hours ago

    The west showing once again that the only way to be a sovereign nation is to have nukes.
    And the west showing once again that for them international law is nothing more than a tool to wield at their discretion against their geo-strategic rivals.

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        I kind of expect that plan would fail. I expect there are radiation detectors at shipping ports and airports. Also one nuclear weapon just pisses off the hive. It would need to cripple for it to be truly effective.

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    22 hours ago

    I’m sure Iran has a dirty bomb. They just are not insane enough to use it. They might be angry. But they are not that insane.

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    24 hours ago

    Well, no, Ryssia has nuclear weapons, Iran is close to having the ability to produce a nuclear weapon. Ones slightly more immediate.