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[–] tyler@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah Iran has been preparing for this for decades and it absolutely shows.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

cellular command structure, complete control of the straight with an army that has 1/100th the budget, less than a quarter of the naval fleet of the US, 1/30th the airpower, and has hardly any support in the region compared to pretty much all of europe and the Middle East actively providing support to the US. The U.S. has claimed multiple times it’s stopped Iran’ss ability to fight and that hasn’t been true a single time.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

They're bashing millions of dollars in equipment with tens of thousands of dollars in equipment. There is absolutely positively no way for them to win the war but they can make it so prohibitively expensive as to be untenable. That's the only strategy that ever worked against imperial armies.