The US has no route to victory in Iran which will likely emerge stronger
1mon 2h ago by lemmy.ml/u/yogthos in geopolitics@lemmy.ml from thepeacemonger.substack.com
The US can always destroy cities like in the blessed genocides of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Vietnam, etc.
Remind me how Vietnam worked out for the burger reich again?
This is precisely why Iran has gotten tunnel tech from NK. The US technique of bombing everything to rubble won't stop Iran's missile capabilities, they're too far underground for even bunker busters to hit.
@yogthos I think the first half of your sentence may be true. The second half is not nearly so certain in my mind.
It's already happening. Iran now charges a toll for passage through Hormuz. Iran has destroyed US bases across the region and pushed back the empire. They are already in a far stronger position than they were before the war started. All the Gulf states can now see that the US security umbrella is worthless, and they have to start making deals with Iran if they are to survive. The defeat of the fascists by Iran in their region is absolutely going to make Iran stronger going forward.
They've also shown how much of a paper tiger the US really is, unable to achieve it's war goals against a country with a GDP of a single (US) state (not to mention the decades of sanctions)
US force projection has been irreversibly crippled, and will only diminish
And this, once again, show that GDP isn't really a meaningful metric to begin with.