Comment on Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Iran has the upper hand right now, they’ve destroyed (confirmed) half to (reported) all US early warning radars in the middle east, they’re hammering Israel right now, their government is intact and has a potentially less moderate leader wanting to avenge his father’s death, they have enough missiles and cheap drones to bankrupt the US in a war of attrition but Iran is also landing a lot of missiles now including 1,000kg payloads and cluster missiles. Interceptions are fewer by the day, and the payloads are larger by the day.

  Iran’s strategy is working, and it only works if they don’t give the US and Israel a chance to restock. So they’ve said it’s not up to the US to decide when this war is over, that they have no interest in negotiating with the US as they don’t trust them anymore, and they will do what they think they need to to ensure the US doesn’t do this again.

  It’s gonna be a long one, a mission accomplished banner won’t do here, Trump and Bibi will have to admit defeat and beg them to stop.

  Iran is huge, Israel is tiny. Can Israel afford to have Tel Aviv destroyed as they financially ruin themselves and destroy the world economy? They’re insane enough to think they can.

  This was the biggest gamble for the dying US empire, and it backfired miserably. Though every analyst that didn’t just barf red white and blue progranda said exactly this will happen, so they deserve it.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The USSR took a decade to collapse with Afghanistan, lets see the USA speed run it with Iran.

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