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He literally just explained exactly that a couple posts ago.I'm curious as to how this would be done w/o using nuclear weapons
Do you suffer from ADD?
He literally just explained exactly that a couple posts ago.I'm curious as to how this would be done w/o using nuclear weapons
Can you show me where he laid out how the USA can end Iran as an entity tommorrow? All I see is standard wanking about American air power, which most certainly would not end Iran as an entity tommorrow.He literally just explained exactly that a couple posts ago.
Do you suffer from ADD?
What, you think that Iran has advanced missile interception technology?Can you show me where he laid out how the USA can end Iran as an entity tommorrow? All I see is standard wanking about American air power, which most certainly would not end Iran as an entity tommorrow.
What, you think that Iran has advanced missile interception technology?
You think their air force is a credible deterrent to US air power? When the best combat aircraft they have is F-14s that we gave them fifty years ago?
I think that Tippy's post was a modicum over the top, but Iran is at best a third-rate power.
And what kind of nation would exist if their power grid, water utlities, and primary industrial facilities were destroyed?It takes far more than bombing infrastructure to "end iran tommorrow"
After an attack on a US carrier?And what kind of nation would exist if their power grid, water utlities, and primary industrial facilities were destroyed?
And what kind of nation would exist if their power grid, water utlities, and primary industrial facilities were destroyed?
No, it would take hours of strikes to disable such systems.It would take months and months and months of intensive strikes to do that and quite frankly you dont have the munitions. You'd also be facing dronestrikes and asymmetrical attacks on your own forces.
Ever heard of operation Paul Bunyan?The day will come when that all drops away. Sooner or later some one will piss us off that much.
We may be able to bomb Iran into the stone age but if Stone Age Iran refuses to surrender then Iran still exists and the US can't really do shit about that fact. Reasonable people can disagree on whether resistance would collapse or stiffen under the pressure of a bombing campaign such as was described earlier.And what kind of nation would exist if their power grid, water utlities, and primary industrial facilities were destroyed?
It's a figure of speech. Iran, as a plateau populated by Persians, would still exist. The current incarnation of Iran would not.We may be able to bomb Iran into the stone age but if Stone Age Iran refuses to surrender then Iran still exists and the US can't really do shit about that fact. Reasonable people can disagree on whether resistance would collapse or stiffen under the pressure of a bombing campaign such as was described earlier.
Iran as an actor on the world stage would no longer exist, which I'm fairly sure is what Tippy meant with his post.We may be able to bomb Iran into the stone age but if Stone Age Iran refuses to surrender then Iran still exists and the US can't really do shit about that fact. Reasonable people can disagree on whether resistance would collapse or stiffen under the pressure of a bombing campaign such as was described earlier.
Ah, but is that what AnimalNoodles was disputing?Iran as an actor on the world stage would no longer exist, which I'm fairly sure is what Tippy meant with his post.
Again, its a regularly used figure of speech which implies total destruction of the current government. You and he are being pedantic and arguing semantics.Ah, but is that what AnimalNoodles was disputing?
(Going back to the claim, "the US could end Iran (for example) as an entity tomorrow with a relatively minimal effort", I would have serious questions about what "relatively minimal" means because it seems unlikely at first blush without going nuclear.)
Ah, but is that what AnimalNoodles was disputing?
(Going back to the claim, "the US could end Iran (for example) as an entity tomorrow with a relatively minimal effort", I would have serious questions about what "relatively minimal" means because it seems unlikely at first blush without going nuclear.)
It also rests on the bizarre assumption that China would just sit there doing nothing while being attacked and completely brushes off the possibility of China launching nuclear weapons which apparently wouldn't affect the US at all.Doesn't really sound too routine to me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd rather let you have it than try to argue the point within the confines of this thread. Till next time.
It also rests on the bizarre assumption that China would just sit there doing nothing while being attacked and completely brushes off the possibility of China launching nuclear weapons which apparently wouldn't affect the US at all.