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Warren says 'it's so much worse than you thought' after classified Iran briefing
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Ah, so it's much better than I thought on one side.
Question is, how much of a plan does Iran have?
Seems like they've been preparing for this for a long while.
I mean, how many empires have passed through Persia, through that area? How many conflicts has that civilization endured? I’m not trying to hype myself up but, like, Iranians are fighting in home turf with thousands of years of military knowledge of their own terrain, against a hegemon that’s mobilized from half way across the globe. They must have something up their sleevse
The hubris of the burger reich is truly astounding. They really think they can just waltz in and destroy a whole civilization that's thousands of years old.
There's been a massive bot campaign across social media to convince people that US and Israel are winning big time.
Anyone that can put 2 and 2 together knows it's not true. But the propaganda is necessary, because that's all the US has left.
Neoliberalism has hollowed out the US. It cannot keep up with economies not focused on maximizing profits.
Also, imagine, if Iran is doing this to the US, what would China do. They could probably destroy all of NATO in less than a month if they wanted.
I always think about the millennium challenge where the USA Armed forces came together to run a test, the USA's military vs Iran, and Iran decimated the USA so much they had to stop the test, change the rules son the USA has to win, and then declared victory for the USA
This is more than 20 years ago. Things could be better now, or even worse given the current administration. My biases lean toward worse.
When you think about it, the U.S. Armed Forces really is just a big casino you can bleed for money
This is amazing, thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Funny, my mom told me about this years ago but didn't mention that it was about Iraq or Iran.
Ok I've never heard of this before but omfg it wasn't even the US military vs a unified Iran, it was one faction in Iran/Iraq! Though we'd have to add a few things to make it more accurate like US domestic unrest, folks in the US Navy sabotaging their own ship's plumbing and having an addled pedo in charge. What could the modeling have predicted if they'd just thought ahead when planning the test?
I think the nastier stuff won't happen until Iran is in a really bad situation. Maybe they could fire an advanced missile and strike Israel's Dimona nuclear facility or carry out drone attacks inside the US. It's easy to sneak drones around and assemble them, so I think we can expect attacks far away from the battlefield.
One thing I'll disagree with is this idea that sleeper cells will appear from no-where and massacre people at bars and nightclubs. It doesn't seem like it's Iran's style - they'd rather hit a military base with a drone.
Remember that while Iran's command structure is ruined, they can still command operations globally through their intelligence officers.
Shades of "John Kerry would have done the Iraq war right!"
by not doing it?
You mean the guy who was Defense Secretary when the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) was struck? The guy who explicitly avoided a war?
The plan is civil war and failed state