sundin13 said:
I'm not watching that whole video, but I haven't really been impressed by "Iran's military prowess". Seems to me like they lost like half of their country's leadership and some significant assets and are just generally getting run over. Same with the war in 2025. They didn't seem to really accomplish much militarily and have largely showed that they are unable to defend much. Am I missing something? |
That's why you should watch that video, Alistair Crooke explains Iran's strategy in detail, as well as what's happening behind the war drum propaganda.
It's the US military bases in the ME and its radar capabilities that are getting run over while Iran is still using old missiles to rapidly deplete interceptors and are already getting freedom of the skies over Arab countries as the US is scrambling to get all the remaining interceptors to Israel.
Arab countries are now seeing that US protection means nothing and are already starting to pivot investments away from the US.
Yes, you are missing the big picture. This is going to be a long war, Iran is not backing down. Iran is larger than France, Germany, Spain, and the UK combined and has its rocket capabilities decentralized over 57 districts.
Taking out the top leadership is exactly what Iran prepared for and is only biting the US in the butt now as there's no one left to negotiate with. Next to unleashing another jihad in Iraq and other countries for turning the Ayatollah into a martyr. Which he likely planned as he was just sitting in his home office, defying all advice to go into shelter.
The effect is more extreme hardliners will take over from Khamenei and the more moderate top leadership that kept preaching restraint in all the previous attacks from Israel and the US, assassinations and bombing wise.
