this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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"They have enough defensive capabilities to have a good chance of defeating a US invasion"
Lol, you really believe that? If the US wanted to, they could go into Iranian airspace and take out whatever they wanted to and leave without Iran even being able to detect them.
I find it really hard to argue that the US lost in Libya or Iraq.
I wouldn't call it "winning" when your invasion leads to nothing but state collapse, formation of ISIS and US troops getting merced by IEDs. Regional instability may be an outcome the US can live with, but it wasn't the military goal of the invasion, they wanted to turn Iraq into a regional ally like postwar Germany and they didn't come anywhere close to that.
What's the evidence for that being the goal of the invasion? The US invaded Iraq to loot the country and destabilize the region. What's my evidence for this? It happened. It's what they did.
I don't see how any of these things are bad for the American ruling class.