The fascinating thing militarily is that the undisputed leading military power in the world - despite the idiot CinC claiming that it has annihilated the opposing enemy 10 times over- cannot open a small straight of water.
David can still use leverage to defeat Goliath.
( Yes, I know this is a somewhat suspect example considering what Davids offshoots are doing elsewhere).
The US can most definitely conquer Iran and reopen the strait, but that requires ground forces and likely a multi year war that would result in massive casualties.
The US can’t reopen the strait with the political limitations that are shaping events.
This is what the US military can do with one arm tied behind its back. Still impressive, but was never going to be enough.
Isn’t it all moot when Israeli PM says there will be no peace with Iran?
Yes. Until a US president is willing to tell the Israeli PM ‘yes there fkg will or else’ and mean it.
The likelihood of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
I don’t totally agree with that statement…unless you mean like they “conquered” Iraq.
Political expediency has hamstrung the American military since Vietnam and when the media was able to bring the war into people’s home via TV.
Also, the Ukraine/Russia war has shown the limitations of strong conventional armies.
I’m also pretty sure that there is no appetite for such a war except from some of the”Hawks” and, of course” the “Industrial Military Complex”
thats probably the indicator for another presidential assassination
Remember with Ukraine that Russian jets don’t operate in their territory. That war has shown limits for powers, but don’t underestimate how much of an advantage the US having total air superiority would be.
Would still be a quagmire though.
What I’m more trying to point out is that the US doesn’t have a military power problem, they just don’t have the appetite for the using the power they have to its full extent. By halfheartedly attacking Iran, they showed the limitations of their power and have made Iran more confident going forward. If this was going to get done, it needed to get done completely.
The US is more than capable of reopening the strait, changing the regime in Tehran and doing all sorts of other things in the region. But those things are largely off the table for domestic political reasons as would all require boots on the ground and thus significant US casualties.
In a situation where the US has an appetite for casualties, the efficacy of the US military is still underpassed. Where the US currently will struggle is dealing with small drones on the battlefield, but they can adapt to that if they focus.
Don’t get too influenced by Russia’s failure in Ukraine, Russia had negligible effective air power in the opening days of that conflict. To this day the only thing the VKS is good at is lobbing munitions from afar. The US would have completely obliterated the Ukrainian forces from the sky and then followed up with far more effective ground forces.
And political nonsense that got them into Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
Go in beating their chests, then oops!
The only thing certain about the US-Israel terror attacks is that they most certainly are all moots
Russian drone has struck a residential building in Romania
Just wait til all the AI Ipo drop in the coming weeks. Stock market will go to the next level.
It’s got crash written all over it.
Only a matter of time.
Like most IPOs, it will likely end up overpaid and slump later. In the meantime, the money to buy them has to be withdrawn from something else.
Well this is an interesting turn.
How’s the journalist just sitting there nodding. I mean is it really that hard.
