>Russia can't take over ukraine in 4 years>Israel can't take over gaza since 3 years and need international aiders to "control it">US can't take over Iran as they did with irakWhat's so hard to "conquest" countries nowdays? your theories and thougts?
>>530337998No big standing armies, lotta missiles n shit
logistics are hard. people laughed at the US for setting up burger kings for their military in afghanistan, but that is elite logisticsdemographics, people are older these daysliteracy rates and media access
>>530338490>literacy rates and media accessyou mean more people being read and have media make them less entusiastic about join campains?
>>530338594its harder for states to propagandise their people. like that "Keep Calm & Carry On" poster from WW2 is a popular meme now, but at the time it was a serious attempt to tell a large population that wartime is perfectly normal.now we can see drone footage of people dying in the most undignifying ways. it's harder to keep this shit away from people, everyone knows its bad.
>>530337998Nukes.
>>530337998several reasonsin the old days you could rape and murder civilians and impale them on sticks as a warning not to rebel, this tends to be frowned on todaybut also, weapons have got a lot better, and technological improvements tended to favour defense over offense for the last centuryyou can deter someone from invading you at a very long standoff with AA and missiles, i.e. make the cost in lives intolerablenukes are the most famous example of this, which is why you've missed the biggest change in war of all: there are no more huge wars between great powers. think about it. a century ago you'd have been drafted and fed into a meatgrinder. we used to do to young men what we do to male chicks. the reason we don't anymore is nuclear weapons, so say a prayer to thank robert oppenheimer for your life.
>>530337998I could write a long post but I think the short of it is modern technology massively favors guerrilla warfare and even enables it in environments it typically was ineffective in before
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>>530337998Don’t lump us in with Russia and Israel. They fail to take territory. Our goal is not to take land from Iran and if we wanted to, we could.
>>530338490>>530338262Historical conquests are not just killing a head of state and taking over like game of thrones bs. They require intermarrying, an interfacing elite, establishing high status knowledge such as the language of conquerors, befriending influential families and surrounding tribes, etc. Modern states don't have the ethnic drive to do it anymore at that scale, except maybe Jews but they rather see non Jews as animals than people they could adapt. Modern times also make it all harder because there are international observers, cars allow people to travel and hide easily to a safe place for a while, communications are widespread, etc.
>>530337998Decisive wars in the age of modern warfare are frowned upon, since that would reduce the amount of money spent/wasted or White men killed and injured over pointlessly protracted conflicts with murky objectives.Sure it's sensible to find a swift end to the quagmire of human misery that is modern warfare, but think of the savings for some geriatric traitor corporate creature and their jewish handler!Much more difficult to be decisive and effective in warfare when the true alternative is to waste time and resources for ulterior motives. After all; why should they sacrifice what was stolen when they can devour their children instead during the twilight of their decrepit lives?
>>530337998Literally, human rights and international treaties.Without them, Israel could have completely genocided everybody in Gaza and Russia could have nuked Kiev into a crater and won.
>>530337998Cause neither side has an interest in ending it?
