I need somebody to explain to me what makes Iran so different compared to other Muslim countries? In all of modern history, Muslims have been getting their shit kicked in by the west pretty handily and haven't won a conventional war (insurgencies don't count) once. Iraq was toppled in a month, Libya was destroyed without a single boot on the ground, Israel fended off Egypt and Syria multiple times, Afghanistan was a playground for the US and Soviets for several decades, etcetera. Hell even Turkey got a pretty damn good spanking in WW1 without much to show for it in the end, yet this war marks pretty much the first time a Muslim country has defeated a western one in open combat since the Austro-Turkish war in the early 1700s, so what makes Iran unique? Even the one other time a Muslim force got out of a war with Israel in a position that wasn't unambiguously a loss (Hezbollah in 2006) they were trained, funded, and armed directly by the Iranians. What do Persians get right that other mudslimes don't?
>>18535526Iran doesn't wage conventional war, they fund terrorists to wage proxy warfare on their behalf and just piss off all their neighbors instead. It's amazing how lines can pretty much be drawn throughout the Muslim world between who sides with the west and who sides with Shia
>>18535528There may have been a large power disparity between the US and Iran, but their drones and missiles dealt a severe blow to the US and caused them to sue for peace. Blockades (like in the Hormuz) are also normal in warfare, so plain and simple Iran just won in state-to-state combat against the world's premier hegemon.
>>18535528^everyone itt throw rocks at this evil, child raping jew
>>18535526Are you forgetting Iran was effortlessly coup'd by the US and the UK during the 1950s?There's nothing special about Iran itself. There's simply a great deal of reticence from the American people to have boots on the ground in a foreign country after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
>>18535526Persians are a superior race to arabs
>>18535602Afghans are Persoids and they're arguably more animalistic than your average dunecoon.
>>18535526If the USA unleashed its full might, Iran would be a smoldering crater in a day, anon. They're fucking around with them.
>>18535617>heh... impressive... you almost made me use 10% of my power...
>>18535622This but unironically.
>>18535617wehraboos called, they want their k/d ratio cope back faggot
>>18535629Dumb malfunctioning bot.
>>18535617Yeah and if the Soviets unleashed their full might against the US they would've won cause they had more nukes. War and politics isn't like smashing two action figures together you fucking dolt.
>>18535643So why is my objectively true statement making you so assmad?
>>18535646Because it's a dumb statement. Countries don't go into full war at a whim, but they can still lose wars regardless even if "oh technically we could've won if we went into full war-time production and drafted men for the naval landings and blah blah blah blah"
>>18535526>Hell even Turkey got a pretty damn good spanking in WW1 without much to show for it in the end, yet this war marks pretty much the first time a Muslim country has defeated a western one in open combat since the Austro-Turkish war in the early 1700https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence>>18535599It was also pretty easily occupied by the allies during WW2. No western power has fought a conventional war against Iran in the time frame OP is talking about.>There's nothing special about Iran itself. There's simply a great deal of reticence from the American people to have boots on the ground in a foreign country after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.This is mostly true but Iran is also much larger than Afghanistan and has more people so I don't think it's the only reason to avoid actually invading the place.
>>18535648Not really. OP said Iran "defeated the USA in open combat" which made me guffaw IRL. All they're doing is getting their shit blown up and putting mines in the strait as a middle finger. I really don't get why this is making you cry.
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>>18535666Damn. It's over. The US military is defeated.
>>18535667Yup, thanks for playing.
>>18535674>13 people died... Iran still has missiles... it's so fucking over USAbros, the Iranians going to march on Washington any minute...
>>18535675>march on washingtonI dunno what a defensive war is ig kek
>>18535676But in the OP, you said Iran has utterly defeated the USA "in open combat". Surely a march on Washington is coming any moment.
>>18535528*throws rock*
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>>18535703Looks like the low IQ shitskin has now resorted to posting memes it got from facebook.
>>18535665Ameriphobes know what they're doing with these leading statements. It's tempting almost to ignore them on the off chance a few might actually relocate to Russia or Iran and suffer the consequences.
>>18535667They should've built more than one plane
>>18535685About that, burgers anon
>>18536341So Iran could destroy all of those other planes they built? Truly the American mind knows no equal.
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