oh absolutely, it’s a war crime plain and simple

edging towards 116 already

Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.

Yup, the US is largely self sufficient in oil and gas right now. However, if the US cuts the vassals loose, that’s going to be disastrous as well. The US has significant dependence on trade with G7 countries, and if they start collapsing economically, then there’s going to be blow back in the US as well. It’ll likely be a bit more delayed, but I can’t see how the US escapes this unscathed.

oh 100%, they were attacked completely unprovoked

That’s totally doable, if Hormuz stays closed, and I see no reason for Iran to reopen it, prices are gonna keep surging. Most of the energy going to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan was passing through there. They don’t even have large reserves. So, once they start running out, it’s gonna be a bloodbath.

those are rookie numbers, I bet we’ll blow past that in a few weeks

countries that allow US to operate bases on their territory are not victims

At this point, they’d have to leave the whole region. I don’t see why Iran would stop when they’re winning.

Absolutely, the Iran has no reason to allow shipments as long as the war continues, and the US has no ability to protect ships trying to run the blockade. We already saw how that played out in Suez.

Thing is I don’t see any off ramp here for the US. There’s no reason for Iran to do another ceasefire at this point. Their best play is to push the US out of the region entirely.

not to mention that Iran is systematically destroying US radars across the region as we speak

Indeed, a lot of the US capabilities and limitations are being revealed now. I’d also be shocked if China wasn’t quietly testing stuff like radars in Iran to see if they can detect US stealth jets for example.

You’d think the US would’ve already been learning these lessons in Ukraine, but evidently they were not. And this is the first time the US got itself into a war where it does not control escalation. I don’t see why Iran would settle for anything less than pushing the US out of the region entirely at this point.

The crazy part here is that NATO evidently hasn’t learned anything at all over past 4 years.

Show us a single example of when a US intervention made life better for people. What Americans want is to destroy Iran, and they’re not even hiding it https://youtu.be/ogt9g-rTa3o?t=376

If you want Iran to be turned into another Libya or Syria then you’re just piece of human garbage. Scum like you enables every western atrocity.

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Yeah, taking any single city isn’t going to change anything. Also, they have developed a whole mosaic defense strategy to decentralize command specifically to prevent the possibility of any sort of decapitation strike https://www.palestinechronicle.com/explainer-what-is-irans-mosaic-defense-strategy/

There are other factors too. The US has a limited number of bases in the region which Iran is systematically taking apart right now. These provide logistics for staging, ammo storage, early warning systems, air defenses, and so on. These bases took decades and trillions to build, and they simply cannot be replaced. While Iran is simply too big to bomb into submission, the same logic doesn’t apply to the limited US assets in the region.

Another huge factor is that the US has to ship weapons across the ocean, which is slow and expensive. Iranians are fighting on the home turf, and they effectively have unlimited weapons by comparison. And of course there’s the fact that Iranian weapons are simply more efficient. The US is forced to use multiple multi million dollar interceptors to take down each drone that costs a few thousand to make. It’s obvious that Iran can pump out drones faster than the US can pump out missiles.

Finally, the whole idea of ground invasion is a fantasy. Iran is a country of 90 million, with difficult mountainous terrain. For context, Ukraine is a third of the size, and Russia has an army of 1.5 million fighting there.

They’re absolutely operating with insurance. They’re just insured outside the west.