Perhaps even I believed the Ian Welshian agitprop too much, as I thought Iran would at least manage to get a hit on a destroyer or something. But they have been stunningly ineffective in battle.
And those “invincible” Chinese anti-ship missiles and “impossible to deceive” Russian and Chinese air defense radars work about as well as a sink made of cheesecloth against our tech.
That’s 815,3000 dead, by Russia’s own accounting.
If that is the Ian Welsh et al. definition of winning, then losing is gonna be a real damn nightmare.
Yes to all of that. I don’t know for sure who bombed that girls’ school. I’ve seen conflicting evidence. (And if the US did it, it was accidental; bad shit happens in all wars.)
But Iran absolutely would bomb a girls’ school (especially a girls’ school) for the propaganda win. Agreed that it didn’t look like a Tomahawk (which was what was claimed).
I don’t think we should be at war with Iran, but I also don’t give a single fuck about what happens to anyone in or associated with the Iranian regime. They are all evil and deserve to die.
The more we kill of them, the better.
We really did majorly fuck that up. We need Ukrainian expertise now in a bad way.
The moron leftists don’t give a crap about Iranians, of course. They just wanted America to lose. They hate their own nation and worship Islamic thugs who’d slit their throats in a second if they could.
What really burns them up, though, is how insanely effective the US military and the hardware it uses has been. It has sliced through Chinese- and Russian-made air defenses like it was tissue paper. Very embarrassing.
I have no idea what kind of high-potency crack those people are smoking, but it must be the strongest stuff in the universe.
Jesus Fucking Christ, a fucking naval vessel of a country you’re currently at war with is a legitimate target.
These idjits scream about “war crimes” for things that seem to them uncouth. Guess what? War sucks and people die, often in horrid ways.
That is extremely plausible. The time to do this would be when the US is distracted by Iran. I’d also expect China to attempt moves on Taiwan around the same time as Russia attempts to take the Baltic states.
Damn. Really frigged up that frigate.
Looks real, but could be AI? Why would that be released? Not typical as it gives away capabilities and contact procedure.
To paraphrase Mike Tyson, everyone has a plan for peace until it’s them getting punched in the face.
I was wrong about the F-35 too. It’s awesome and getting better all the time.
I need one.
I thought the Ian Welsh types were saying the US Navy would immediately be defeated with drones and missiles.
Didn’t happen, huh? Funny that….
Whether you think attacking Iran is right or not, Wil is correct. And I’ll never be sad that the evil bastard Khamenei is dead. I can hardly think of a person who was more deserving of disintegration by a 2,000 pound bomb.
The IDF is pretty competent. As I’ve pointed out before, if Israel really had wanted to commit a genocide every citizen of Gaza would now be dead.
That was just a war. A brutal one, but a war.