• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    and your ‘argument’ is is meaningless grandstanding for Iran, totally ignoring the 100s of assets and their value that were destroyed. Iran effectively has no air force or navy anymore.

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      5 hours ago

      Iran effectively has no air force or navy anymore.

      Yet complete control of Gulf anyway. Complete control of global economy permission anyway. Much more relevant than your point.

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      4 hours ago

      So? Those are assets the Iranians knew they would loose early in the war with the Satanic Forces. They are fighting with drones and missiles just as they have always planned to do.

      So get fucked America. You can sink a battleship but you can’t do shit to drone swarms, therefore you can’t fight modern wars. They can’t even learn and adapt to this because the US military is so captured by the corporate pedoship. It’s glorious to see them finally eatting shit with all those trillions and trillions of worthless broken eshitified tech.

      Meanwhile all the other potential victims of American aggression are taking notes.

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      5 hours ago

      Ah the “assets and value” of 153 schoolchildren. Wow much strategy, waste weapons you can’t resupply on civilians.

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      6 hours ago

      Ukraine doesn’t effectively have an air force or navy. And look how well that’s working out for Russia. They don’t need a massive navy. Iran doesn’t need to steam across the ocean and lay siege to Washington D.C. in order to win this war. They just need to outlast the US and Israel. It’s telling that, despite Iran lacking a navy, the US is keeping its own navy clear of the Straight of Hormuz. Instead the actual ships are being kept far away from the Iranian coast, and targets are being bombed via long range aircraft and stand off munitions. That’s tellingly the exact same tactic Russia has been forced to use over Ukraine.

    • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml
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      Iran was running soviet hand me downs and equivalents, their air force and navy were never core to their military strategy. Drones, missiles etc are the core and it’s clearly working.

      The fact is that the US spends nearly a trillion a year on its military (more than the next 10 countries combined) and built it’s image on being “THE” military superpower yet they are having their toys destroyed in massive cost loss conversions.

      Why do you feel the need to lick US boots beyond being deeply chauvinist internally. The US clearly has no real goal in this war, it’s shifted from nebulous “regime change” (which worked out so well every other time) to opening the straight that was already open before this idiotic war.

      Why is it so hard for you to admit that this is an idiotic war, a comedy of errors pushed forward by an inflated military budget and a false sense of invincibility. They have lost/spent roughly $61billion already increasing around $1billion a day, and what do they have to show for it? Destroying an air force and navy that wasn’t worth anything already? An Iranian populace now more radicalised than ever against them? An energy crisis threatening to topple the petrodollar?

      You really should come down to reality sometimes if you manage to remove your tongue from the US’s sphincter. Iran could still absolutely be toppled but to act like to this point it hasn’t been a serious contender for fractions of a cent on the dollar spent, or that the US hasn’t been bumbling it’s way through losing well over a billion in advanced weapons platforms is ridiculous and completely detached from reality.