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Iran why are you being such fucking losers about this
It's disinformation that ought to be cleared up. The entire Twitter shitstorm about China not swooping in was people who didn't know that Iran already turned down military collaboration years ago (when it would have had time to play a part in this war) and only imperial core countries have their logistics set up for foreign military interventions. Part of why these militaries so bloated and falling apart. Everyone moved on like they hadn't come to blows with others before doing basic research
One thing i think they miss too is Iran is actually decently far away from China. Like Chinese fighter planes launched from western China could only make it to Iran if it's a 1 way trip. What exactly are they meant to do? Send their pilots in to suicide for Iran?
China does have a small region where i think it is fully prepared to face the US if need be, but that region does not include Iran. If the US ever tried something like this against Laos, Vietnam, or the DPRK though? I would bet money on a swift reaction from China. Iran might be China's strategic partner, and they might be willing to offer material support, but the idea that China is going to go all in on a war to defend Iran and leave itself, and the AES states around it vulnerable is silly.
The best actual support China could give would be to wait until the US fully commited to an Iranian invasion, and then funnel weapons to them. Through central asian partners. Which oh wow look at that Xi was visiting right as all this was happening. Almost as if China knows what it's doing or something.
People don't understand warfare and don't understand logistics.
People are too used to western militaries showing up around the world. It's become sort of a military version of commodity fetishism. They don't realise that even most western militaries have to use American help/infrastructure to get around.