Jumpin said:
Darwinianevolution said:
I'm not sure why there's so much fuzz about this. The US embassy in Irak was attacked by a paramiliatary millitia backed by Iran, the US stroke against the man who organized it. What is Iran going to realistically do? Declare war on the US and get immediately swarmed and invaded? Attack one of the many american bases around Iran and get invaded? Fund even more terrorism and give the US a casus belli to invade them? Call its allies for help? China would rather keep good relations with the US to mantain the economy flow going, I'm not sure Russia would take the risk of helping Iran outside of diplomacy and maybe help through secret services, and the rest of its allies are almost a non entity. Iran cannot do anything without risking itself, so unless they went full kamikaze, they'll choose self-preservation over any major retaliation and things will slow down from here.
And yes, I know there's been an atack with iranian ballistic missiles to US bases, but all missed its targets and there were no casualties (allegedly), which makes me think this was just an empty threat to save face.
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Have you not been paying attention?
The US literally assassinated a high ranking Iranian Official and has threatened terrorist attacks on 52 civilian targets in Iran.
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I know, but all the cries for World War III coming are unwarranted. At best, this is just another showoff between nations, and at worse, we'll have another Gulf War. Tragic, but nothing world shattering. Also, calling terrorist attacks to the threats made to the iranian objectives is not correct, since they would be military objectives in case of war, not just part of a terror or guerrilla campaign. And this is in response to the attack to the US air bases, so it's not like it was unwarranted.
